The Social Age

Tomorrow I’m heading to Miami for The Gathering of Leaders, an annual event put on by New Profit Inc., that brings social entrepreneurs and leaders from the private, public and nonprofit sectors together for 3 days of brainstorming and action planning about how to accelerate widespread social change in the world. One of the things […]

This is a horrible story. A Chinese blogger happened on a confrontation in the central Chinese province of Hubei between city inspectors and villagers protesting over the dumping of waste near their homes. He decided to film the event on his camera-phone. Fifty (yes, you read right, 50) municipal inspectors turned on him and beat […]

I recently had lunch with Bill Clinton. And despite the fact that there were 400 other people there, and I was at a table center-back instead of center-front, I think we had a pretty great time.
Clinton was in Boston to deliver the keynote address at a gathering called “The Looming Crisis: Can we Act in […]

I attended an interesting panel discussion recently called “Thinking Outside the Box — New Corporate Structures, Tax Policy, and Public Policy for 21st-Century Social Enterprises”. I have a keen interest in social enterprise and teach a course at Harvard’s Kennedy School fo Government. In short, social enterprises combine the best of private initiative with […]