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Could Wal-Mart offer a better solution to healthcare than Medicaid? Could GE help reduce global warming faster than the Kyoto protocol?

Social Innovation, Inc. declares a new era where companies profit from social change. Leading corporations like GE, Wellpoint, Travelers and Wal-Mart are transforming social responsibility into social innovation and revolutionizing the way we think about the role of business in society. Based on four years of measuring the social strategies of America''s leading corporations, Jason Saul lays out the five strategies for social innovation and offers a practical roadmap for how to get started.

  • Explains the fundamental shift in the role of business in society, from social contract to social capital market
  • Identifies the 5 social innovation strategies: submarket products and services, social points of entry, pipeline talent, reverse lobbying, and emotive customer bonding
  • Offers step-by-step guidance for creati

    Table of Contents

    Introduction ix

    Part I The New Economics of Social Change 1

    1 The Rise of the Social Capital Market 3

    2 Responsibility is Not a Strategy 17

    3 Corporate Social Innovation 29

    Part II Five Strategies For Corporate Social Innovation 49

    4 Strategy One: Create Revenues Through Submarket Products and Services 51

    5 Strategy Two: Enter New Markets Through Backdoor Channels 73

    6 Strategy Three: Build Emotional Bonds with Customers 91

    7 Strategy Four: Develop New Pipelines for Talent 107

    8 Strategy Five: Influence Policy Through Reverse Lobbying 127

    Part III The Roadmap to Social Innovation 145

    9 Creating a Culture of Social Innovation 147

    10 The Formula for Social Innovation 159

    11 Implications of the Social Capital Market 175

    Notes 185

    Acknowledgments 217

    About the Author 219

    Index 221

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    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
    Publication Date: 02/11/2010
    ISBN13: 9780470614501, 978-0470614501
    ISBN10: 0470614501

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Could Wal-Mart offer a better solution to healthcare than Medicaid? Could GE help reduce global warming faster than the Kyoto protocol?

    Social Innovation, Inc. declares a new era where companies profit from social change. Leading corporations like GE, Wellpoint, Travelers and Wal-Mart are transforming social responsibility into social innovation and revolutionizing the way we think about the role of business in society. Based on four years of measuring the social strategies of America''s leading corporations, Jason Saul lays out the five strategies for social innovation and offers a practical roadmap for how to get started.

    • Explains the fundamental shift in the role of business in society, from social contract to social capital market
    • Identifies the 5 social innovation strategies: submarket products and services, social points of entry, pipeline talent, reverse lobbying, and emotive customer bonding
    • Offers step-by-step guidance for creati

      Table of Contents

      Introduction ix

      Part I The New Economics of Social Change 1

      1 The Rise of the Social Capital Market 3

      2 Responsibility is Not a Strategy 17

      3 Corporate Social Innovation 29

      Part II Five Strategies For Corporate Social Innovation 49

      4 Strategy One: Create Revenues Through Submarket Products and Services 51

      5 Strategy Two: Enter New Markets Through Backdoor Channels 73

      6 Strategy Three: Build Emotional Bonds with Customers 91

      7 Strategy Four: Develop New Pipelines for Talent 107

      8 Strategy Five: Influence Policy Through Reverse Lobbying 127

      Part III The Roadmap to Social Innovation 145

      9 Creating a Culture of Social Innovation 147

      10 The Formula for Social Innovation 159

      11 Implications of the Social Capital Market 175

      Notes 185

      Acknowledgments 217

      About the Author 219

      Index 221

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