Former Chinese Google CEO’s innovative cluster attracts 40,000 applicants

Jieying Zheng

November 11, 2009

Dr. Lee Kai-Fu has left Google China, with the ambition of launching an innovation incubator –Innovation Works (创新工厂)– with the backing of top IT... More...

Philippines Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2009

Kevin Teo

November 10, 2009

The Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the Philippines was announced at Makati Shangrila during Ernst & Young’s national Entrepreneur of the Year celebration. Social... More...

India’s Competitiveness Stunted By Gender Gap

John Elkington

November 9, 2009

The World Economic Forum’s India Gender Gap Review released at the India Economic Summit examines inequalities between women and men. Leaders at the meeting are... More...

Cleantech Sector Concludes COP15 Doesn’t Matter

John Elkington

November 6, 2009

The outcome of the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP15) next month in Copenhagen isn’t expected to be meaningful for the cleantech sector... More...

Indian Social Entrepreneurs Spotlighted

John Elkington

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has selected three social enterprises with significant impact in... More...

First Movers Program

John Elkington

November 4, 2009

Here’s a program linked to the social intrapreneurship theme we explored as part of the Skoll Program in our report The Social Intrapreneur. ... More...

Lester Brown’s Three Models of Social Change

John Elkington

November 3, 2009

One of the most thoughtful people in various of the fields Volans engages is Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute. They are circulating byte-sized... More...

Think ‘macro-insurance’. Scaling North Africa’s Energy Vision

Alejandro Litovsky

Munich Re, the insurance company, is demonstrating an extraordinary vision and leadership as it gears to solve some of the barriers to scale of large... More...

“The Power of Unreasonable People” reaches global Chinese speaking (中文繁体) community

Jieying Zheng

November 2, 2009

Harvard Business School Press, the publisher of “The Power of Unreasonable People”, published on its Taiwanese website a Chinese (traditional) transcript of John Elkington’s interview... More...