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Galvanizing workers for workplace change
What business leaders can learn from nonviolent resistance (and sociology)
Business leaders play important activist roles in communicating societal values and promoting change in areas such as gun control, immigration, and climate actions.
How characters and storytelling drive social change
The role of storytelling in driving social change is getting us to care about an issue, creating a movement, and telling new stories about issues.
Social principles transforming businesses
The same social principles underlying successful social and political movements are present in transforming businesses
Social activism showing up in social entrepreneurship
Information and communications technologies now make corporate activities very public, and a connection strengthens between social activism, social entrepreneurship, and business.
A learning tension between social movements and business leadership
Season Six will set in motion an engaging mash-up of business and social change. We cannot afford to be just leaders. We need to be Activators as well.
Social enterprise startup: Empowering energy equity through solar!
Solstice deploys “community solar,” enabling households to subscribe to shared solar farms. Co-founder and CEO, Steph Speirs, highlights their business model to achieve greater energy equity.
Social entrepreneurship: Startup challenges with added value
Applying entrepreneurial principles to serve the poor and protect the planet is the definition of social entrepreneurship at Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Santa Clara University.
Employee ownership: Gaining engagement through transparency and responsibility
Learn perspectives on employee-owned companies as the basis of a new economy focused on broad-based prosperity, limited wealth inequality, shared sense of ownership, and responsibility for communities and workplaces.
Collectives: Delivering transparency and decision-making
Worker collectives make decisions by practicing direct democracy. In NOBL’s case, decisions are made by a broad consensus and operates with little hierarchy.