Innovation Resources
Get Inspired
Read books and blogs, watch videos and get inspired!
BLOGS
- Have Fun - Do Good
- Your Great Life TV
- How to Change the World - A Practical Blog for Impractical People
- Spare Change - Making a Difference with Social Marketing
- Audeamus - How Dare We...
- Social Edge
- Social ROI
- Stanford Center for Social Innovation
BOOKS
Book Lists From Some of Our Favorite People and Organizations
- Bijoy Goswami's Bootstrap Book List
- Echoing Green - 2011 Finalists' Book List
- Change.org's list of 5 History Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
- Social Edge - Top Book Picks for Social Entrepreneurs
- Social Earth - 5 Books for Every Social Entrepreneurs' Wish List
- Amazon's Social Enterprise Book List for MBAs
Inspirational
- AKULA, VIKRAM, (2010), A Fist Full of Rice: My Unexpected Quest to End Poverty Through Profitability
- BORNSTEIN, DAVID, (2004), How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
- BORNSTEIN, DAVID, (2005) - So you want to change the world
- BRANSON, RICHARD (2011), Screw Business As Usual
- CHOUINARD, YVON, (2005), Let my People Go Surfing
- COLLINS, JIM, (2005), Good to Great and the Social Sectors
- ELKINGTON, JOHN, HARTIGAN, PAMELA, (2008), The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World
- HENTON, D., MELVILLE, JOHN G. (1997), Grassroots Leaders: How Civic Entrepreneurs are Building Prosperous Economies
- MYCOSKIE, BLAKE, (2011), Start Something That Matters
- NOVOGRATZ, JACQUELINE, (2009), A Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
Contextual
- BARTON, BROOKE; HERRERO, GUSTAVO; QUELCH, JOHN A.; RANGAN, KASTURI V., (2007), Business Solutions for the global poor: Creating Social and Economic Value
- BORNSTEIN, DAVID, (2010), Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know
- COLLIER, PAUL, (2008), The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
- DE SOTO, HERNANDO, (2000), The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
- POLAK, PAUL, (2008), Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
- PRAHALAD, C.K., (2005), The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
- SMITH, PAUL, THURMAN, ERIC ( 2007), A Billion Bootstraps: Microcredit, Barefoot Banking and the Business Solution for Ending Poverty
- YUNUS, MUHAMMED, (2009), Creating a World Without Poverty
- LIGHT, PAUL C., (2008), The Search for Social Entrepreneurship
Applied
- BROWN, TIM, (2009), Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
- DEES, J. GREGORY, EMERSON, JED, ECONOMY, PETER, (2001), Enterprising Nonprofits: A Toolkit for Social Entrepreneurs
- IDEO, (2011), Human Centered Design Toolkit: An Open Source Toolkit to Inspire New Solutions in the Developing World
- KAWASAKI, GUY, (2004), The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
- LYNCH, KEVIN, WALLS JULIUS, (2009), Mission, Inc.
- NESsT PRACTIONER SERIES, (2004), Get Ready, Get Set...Starting Down the Road to Self-Financing
- OSTERWALDER, ALEXANDER, PIGNEUR, YVES, (2010), Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers and Challengers
VIDEOS
TED Talks
- Seth Godin on Standing Out
- Alex Tabarrok on how ideas trump crises
- Dean Kamen on Inventing and Giving
- Richard St. Johns 8 Secrets of Success
- Tony Robbins Asks Why We Do What We Do
- Derek Sivers: How to Start a Movement
- Itay Talgam: Lead Like the Great Composers
- Gary Vaynerchuk: Do what you love (no excuses!)
- Alexis Ohanian: How to Make a Splash in Social Media
- Richard Branson: Life at 30,000 Feet
- Simon Sinek: How Great Leaders Inspire Action
