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See in the Darkness: Cai Shiyin Discusses How Dialogue in the Dark Develops in China

February 18, 2019 By Liu Sha Leave a Comment

“Human beings cannot see with their eyes in absolute darkness, but they can see with their mind,” says Cai Shiyin, an entrepreneur who started the social enterprise Dialogue in the Dark in China.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Conversations, CSR, Q&A, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Good

Philanthropy For Community Impact

November 12, 2013 By Neelima Mahajan

Brian Gallagher, CEO of United Way Worldwide, on more meaningful philanthropy, and measuring the impact of and enforcing accountabilty in philanthropy projects. As a charitable organization, United Way Worldwide (UWW) enjoys two unique advantages: the benefit of scale, and the ability to organize and manage community impact projects locally. UWW, a 125-year-old institution now, is […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, C-Suite Interview, Conversations, CSR, Know China, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Good, Videos Tagged With: Corporate Social responsibility, Philanthropy, Slider, Venture Philanthropy

Sustainability and Inclusiveness Primer: Challenges of Impact Investing in China

September 9, 2013 By Anson Wong

Philanthropy, Strategic Philanthropy

Impact investing, or investments that try to create quantifiable positive social and environmental impact alongside a financial return to any organization or entity, also falls under the big umbrella of strategic philanthropy (See ‘Sustainability and Inclusiveness Primer: Doing Good through Strategic Philanthropy’). Impact investing is not about simply writing a check and making a donation […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, CSR, Know China, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Good, Strategy Tagged With: Impact Investing, Sustainability and Inclusiveness Primer, Vanke

Sustainability and Inclusiveness Primer: Doing Good through Strategic Philanthropy

August 15, 2013 By Anson Wong

Philanthropy, Strategic Philanthropy

Giving to a worthy cause used to be as simple as signing a check and mailing it to a charity. As the idea of philanthropy continues to gain traction, buzzwords such as ‘impact investing’, ‘venture philanthropy’, ‘social venture capital’ etc., have emerged. All of these belong to a broader umbrella concept called ‘strategic philanthropy’ and […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, CSR, ExpertSpeak, Know China, Opinion, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Good, Strategy Tagged With: Philanthropy, Sustainability and Inclusiveness Primer

Bottom of the Pyramid and Beyond: The Thinker Interview with Stuart Hart

June 6, 2013 By Neelima Mahajan

  In the year 2002, C.K. Prahalad and Stuart Hart published a groundbreaking article in Strategy+Business magazine that introduced to the world the idea of the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP). The idea, which says that the poor present a vast untapped business opportunity, and if companies serve the poor, they can help eradicate poverty and […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Connections, Conversations, Demographics, Emerging Economies, Employment, Entrepreneurship, ExpertSpeak, Finance, Globalization, Innovation, Know China, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Good, Society, Sustainability, The Thinker Interview Tagged With: Bottom of the Pyramid, C.K. Prahalad, Cemex, Clayton Christensen, Godrej, Interviews, Nirma, Peter Diamandis, Poor, Poverty, Reverse Innovation, S.C. Johnson, Slider, Stuart Hart, Sustainability, Unilever, Video Interview, Vijay Govindarajan

Kickstarters: China’s Innovation Incubators

May 14, 2013 By Matthew Fulco

China’s incubators set entrepreneurial spirit in motion. Stephen Bell has high hopes for Chinese student entrepreneurs. The American venture capitalist invests in seed-stage start-ups across China, betting that the next Mark Zuckerberg will emerge from the world’s second-largest economy. Bell’s Beijing-based venture-capital firm Trilogy VC runs the ChinaStars incubator program at the country’s top universities. […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Creativity, Culture, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Innovation, Know China, Social Entrepreneurship, Talent Tagged With: China Stars, Chinaccelerator, Incubators, Innovation, Innovation Works, Jue.io, Kai-Fu Lee, Slider, Start-ups, Stephen Bell, Technology, Trilogy Ventures

Sir Tom Hunter and his Idea of Venture Philanthropy

February 4, 2013 By Neelima Mahajan

An interview with Sir Tom Hunter, noted entrepreneur, philanthropist and Scotland’s first billionaire. Sir Tom Hunter’s story is an inspiring one. The son of a grocer in a small mining village in Scotland, he started a business selling sneakers from the back of a van. From humble beginnings, he went on to create sportswear retail […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, CSR, Entrepreneurship, Know China, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Good, Society, Videos Tagged With: #Interview, #Sir Tom Hunter, Charity, Clinton Foundation, Philanthropy, Slider, Venture Philanthropy

Beyond Profits: China’s Social Entrepreneurs

July 3, 2012 By Kay Park

Philanthropy, Strategic Philanthropy

A new breed of entrepreneurs takes on China’s most vexing problems

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, Entrepreneurship, Know China, Social Entrepreneurship Tagged With: Business Model Innovation, Liao Jianwen, Liu Zhifeng, Mong Grass, Social Entrepreneurs, Social Innovation, Social Ventures, Spring Mountain, Wang Zhaoming

Liao Jianwen on Social Innovation

May 12, 2012 By Michele Scrimenti

In recent years, a handful of Chinese entrepreneurs have set up companies that use legitimate business models to tackle some of the country’s most vexing problems — and also turn in a profit. As these early experiments show, social innovation — or using business models to solve social and environmental problems — requires a fundamentally […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, CSR, Know China, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Good, Videos Tagged With: Business Model Innovation, Liu Zhifeng, Social Entrepreneurs, Social Innovation, Social Ventures, Spring Mountain

CSR in China: Domestic enterprises outshine MNCs

April 9, 2012 By CKGSB Knowledge

Globalization has increased awareness of, and controversy over, corporate social responsibility (CSR) around the world. China is certainly no exception. Encouraged by the country’s economic reform in 1978, and later, by its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, multinational corporations (MNCs) flooded into the Chinese market. With them, they brought not only […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, China, CSR, Know China, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Good, Society Tagged With: Charities

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