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To Grow, Social Enterprises Must Play by Business Rules

Harvard Business Review

They need new executive talent, infusions of capital, and systems capable of supporting an expanding organization. For-profit companies in the same situation can turn to a robust venture capital community that is focused on providing the management, financing and strategy that innovative companies need to scale up quickly.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. Successful spin-offs tend to have a management team that comprises both insiders and outsiders. The outsiders provide new blood in support functions such as finance, legal, or administration.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.