Innovation Roundup: McKinsey Sponsors Video Contest
The consulting company puts out a call for social-innovation videos, and Fast Company starts a new Web site highlighting new approaches to tackling tough problems.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Playing Devil’s Advocate for the Greater Good
The U.S. Army has assigned teams to challenge assumptions by commanders and staffs, to question decisions, and to present alternatives—a practice that has been copied in the fight against polio.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
At a nonprofit ideas conference, a Harvard researcher explains how certain body postures lead to hormonal changes that increase confidence and encourage risk taking.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Star Turn for Little-Understood Banking Groups
The Opportunity Finance Network hopes that a new partnership with Starbucks will help raise the profile of organizations that offer banking services in low-income communities.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Applying Design Thinking to Health Care
Health care could benefit from design’s focus on customer needs, the co-founder of a research initiative at Harvard Medical School argues in The Atlantic.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Ideas Conference Will Stream Live This Week
PopTech’s annual meeting brings together people with a diverse areas of expertise to talk about social change.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
‘Disruptive Forces’ Face Nonprofits
A new report details emerging trends to which social-service groups will have to adapt and urges organizations to put aside the “bunker mentality” they took during the downturn.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Design Firm Creates a Nonprofit Arm to Help Charities Get Better Results
IDEO, a consultant to companies like Apple and Bank of America, is showing nonprofits how to reach out to beneficiaries before designing new aid approaches.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Giving teams a space to work fosters creativity by getting ideas off people’s computers and out where others can see them, says a nonprofit leader.
By Laura Weiss
Contributor
Bill Gates’s Innovation Book Report
The Microsoft co-founder reviews Where Good Ideas Come From on his Web site.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Organizations must first decide what they’re going to stop doing to free up resources for new efforts, says the head of the Drucker Institute.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Taking Design Thinking to the Nonprofit World
IDEO, a design company that has worked with Apple, Ford, and others, has started a nonprofit arm.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Pursuing Innovation in the Nonprofit World
A new Chronicle blog starts a conversation about fostering new ideas.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Grant Maker Helps Incubate Innovation in the Arts
The Doris Duke Foundation is helping cultural groups figure how to deal with changing demographics and competition from technology.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Washington Group Gives Budding Innovators Support to Develop Their Ideas
A Washington group gives money and other help to people with innovative solutions for helping people out of poverty.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Innovators Battle Obstacles to Creative Solutions
Even in an uncertain economy, some nonprofits are pursuing innovative practices, such as Project Exploration, which offers science programs to inner-city students in Chicago.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor