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The Next Social Leaders - Bridging the Gap Conference Jul 24, 2006

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In this panel discussion, social entrepreneur veteran Laura Scher and more recent entrants, Kirsten Gagnaire and Jenny Shilling Stein, offer advice on what it takes to create a successful for-profit or nonprofit organization with a social purpose. The key components, they agreed, are a strong leader, a clear social mission, consistency, and focus.

https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/the_next_social_leaders_-_bridging_the_gap_conference

Strategic Philanthropy - Bridging the Gap Conference Jul 17, 2006

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A new generation of innovative philanthropists is helping to transform charitable giving. This panel discussion highlights the philosophy of three young, but outstanding, organizations in the strategic philanthropic field. Panelists emphasize the targeted use of wealth to address specific social challenges.

https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/strategic_philanthropy_-_bridging_the_gap_conference

Rick Lowe - Urban Villages: Art As Social Innovation Jul 10, 2006

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Rick Lowe has given new meaning to the phrase "artist-in-residence." This Heinz Award winner and former Loeb fellow at the Harvard School of Design is the founder of Project Row Houses, an organization that merges art and architecture with social activism. In an audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Lowe describes how this experiment in "social sculpture" is redefining the role of art and artists in society.

https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/rick_lowe_-_urban_villages_art_as_social_innovation

Corporate Environmental Footprint - Bridging the Gap Conference Jul 10, 2006

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As the world awakens to the challenges of global warming and water shortages, corporations slowly recognize the reduction of their environmental footprint as a significant component of corporate social responsibility. This panel discussion explores some of the leading corporate initiatives toward environmental sustainability.

https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/corporate_environmental_footprint_-_bridging_the_gap_conference

Al Gore - Fostering Enviornmental Sustainability Jul 04, 2006

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The industrialized world is on a collision course with nature, says environmental sustainability hero and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore. In this audio lecture, he presents the realities of global warming with alarming clarity and conclusiveness and passionately urges a Stanford Business School audience to take action.

https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/al_gore_-_fostering_enviornmental_sustainability

Greening the Supply Chain - Bridging the Gap Conference Jul 03, 2006

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How did Patagonia make the transition to using 100% organic cotton in its product line? In this panel discussion from Bridging the Gap, the Stanford 2005 Net Impact Conference organized by the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Randy Harward discusses the challenges of garnering internal support, ensuring adequate supply of raw materials, and keeping prices affordable as Patagonia greens its supply chain.

https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/greening_the_supply_chain_-_bridging_the_gap_conference

Ticia Gerber - Leadership in Global Health Technology Jul 01, 2006

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Ticia Gerber sits at the center of one of the world's important current debates: How do we keep people healthy without having it cost an arm and a leg? At eHealth Initiative and LIGHT, Gerber is working across three continents to bridge the public, private, and social sectors. She talks with Globeshakers host Tim Zak in an audio interview about the role of technology in the future of healthcare and what it means to create a dialogue between the developed and developing world.

https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/ticia_gerber_-_leadership_in_global_health_technology

Debra Meyerson - When Personal and Corporate Values Are at Odds Jun 26, 2006

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Changing the status quo in major organizations may seem overwhelming. Debra Meyerson offers the 2005 Stanford Net Impact conference audience strategies to effect change from within through tempered radicalism. In this audio lecture, she shares findings from her research about incremental and bottom-up change strategies to impact corporate values and advance social justice and social responsibility within organizations.

https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/debra_meyerson_-_when_personal_and_corporate_values_are_at_odds

Dean Kamen - Heinz Award Winner Series Jun 19, 2006

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Dean Kamen has literally changed the world by turning breakthrough ideas into practical products. In this audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Kamen discusses the power of technology to change society. He also talks about what it takes to persevere in the face of public and professional resistance toward inventions and technology that can actually make people's lives better.

https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/dean_kamen_-_heinz_award_winner_series

Dr. Paul Farmer - Partners In Health Jun 12, 2006

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Recipient of the 9th Annual Heinz Award for the Human Condition, Paul Farmer is a medical doctor and a professor of anthropology at Harvard's medical school. He shuttles between Harvard and Haiti, where he maintains a practice at Clinique Bon Saveur, a charity hospital he founded. Farmer talks in this audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak about the challenges and rewards of providing healthcare to the poorest of the poor, and the evolving, innovative models for getting drugs to those who need them most.

https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/dr._paul_farmer_-_partners_in_health

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