Profit and Purpose—a blog co-hosted by The Chronicle of Philanthropy and CauseShift, a strategic consulting company—seeks to provoke new thinking about how companies, nonprofit groups, government ...

Big companies are most likely to give to charity or undertake other social-responsibility efforts because they want to fight national or global problems, according to a new study by Weber Shandwick, a ...

Why do we turn to nonprofits, NGOs and governments to solve society’s biggest problems? In this Ted Talk, Michael Porter admits he’s biased, as a business school professor, but he wants you to hear ...

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted ...

From self-driving cars to virtual assistants, AI has already significantly impacted our daily lives. Perhaps AI’s biggest potential lies in its ability to tackle some of the world’s most pressing ...

Except for Patagonia, the social impact of brands isn’t getting noticed by consumers. Whenever I ask students or other groups of people which companies they consider to be social impact leaders, they ...

For over two months, 50 teams representing 34 nationalities competed for a spot in the top ten of the World Data League (WDL) – a quest to find long-lasting solutions for social-oriented problems ...

In coaching others, I often discuss problem-solving strategies to help individuals think creatively and consider many options when they are faced with challenging situations. Problem solving 1-2 ...