Residence Halls Illinois Street

Summary
"Open innovation and crowdsourcing are among the hottest topics in strategy and management today. A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcingexplains how to use the power of ideas and people outside your organization to turbocharge your innovation."

Multiple Locations

Summary
"In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe. But traditional capitalism has been unable to solve problems like inequality and poverty. In Muhammad Yunus’ sequel to Banker to the Poor, he outlines the concept of social business—business where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today’s most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet."

Main Stacks

“'crowdsourcing' describes the process by which the power of the many can be leveraged to accomplish feats that were once the province of the specialized few. Howe reveals that the crowd is more than wise—it’s talented, creative, and stunningly productive." Jeff Howe, June 2006 in Wired magazine

Undergrad

"In addition to sharing their own success, and the stories of others,ECOpreneuringis filled with practical information about starting and running a small green business."
-Jeff McIntire-Strasburg,Sustainablog

Main Stacks
Online Collection

Proceedings of a symposium held by KfW Entwicklungsbank in Berlin in 2004.
Summary
"KfW actively promotes microfinance investment funds and other activities that facilitate the growth of microfinance. This book is an expression of KfW's role as information broker and trend setter. The authors who contributed to this collection offer a comprehensive range of perspectives and themes related to microfinance investment and its promotion."

Education

"Themed around the emerging agendas for developing new, sustainable models of social sector excellence and systemic impact, Social Entrepreneurship offers, for the first time, a wide-ranging, internationally-focused selection of cutting-edge work from leading academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Together they seek to clarify some of the ambiguity around this term, describe a range of social entrepreneurship projects, and establish a clear set of frameworks with which to understand it."

Residence Halls Ikenberry

Summary
"The Dragonfly Effect shows you how to tap social media and consumer psychological insights to achieve a single, concrete goal. Named for the only insect that is able to move in any direction when its four wings are working in concert, this book. Reveals the four "wings" of the Dragonfly Effect-and how they work together to produce colossal results."