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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Crucially, this “boundary spanning” activity (to use the term coined by organizational theorist Michael Tushman in 1977) is not just for innovators who have the resources and inclination to approach things differently. Simply put, social change requires social collaboration. Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines.

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In a multiracial democracy, HUD would actively shape the housing market so that everyone could afford a place to live—so that millions of families don’t have to worry whether they can make rent at the beginning every month. We must believe that these transformations are possible.