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3 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Can Solve Their Talent Problem

Harvard Business Review

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. Vincent Tsui for HBR. But there is plenty of potential left to unlock. What do these enterprises need to scale up? And how can they do it? Fair enough.

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The Problem with Trend Tracking

Harvard Business Review

Both parties are to this extent "glocal" — global and local. Marketing once specialized in advertising and packaging that was identical everywhere. An excellent NPR piece, The New American Localism , notes an upsurge of localism in a range of things, even banking and philanthropy. Where did it come from?

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