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Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In fact, city leaders often follow the pioneering innovations of civil society organizations. The initiation power of civil society organizations does not end with “small wins.” .” Diffusion between cities does not only happen on the level of city governments. Create synapses for within-city learning.

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The Digital Economy Is Broken—But It’s Not Too Late

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Indeed, these digital technologies would enable people to transcend the geographic boundaries that constrained their ability to pursue the lives they valued, enabling them to acquire more social, economic, and political power. However, current reality is miles apart from that vision.

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Investing in Enterprises That Work for Everyone

Stanford Social Innovation Review

That share ownership comes with two core bundles of rights for shareholders: economic rights, which provide monetary value, and governance rights, which grant control over the enterprise. The retailer Publix and the food company King Arthur Baking Company are both owned by ESOPs. This is often called shareholder primacy.