In their 2004 IPO letter, Google’s cofounders established the Google Foundation and committed “employee time and approximately 1% of Google’s equity and profits” to the foundation’s efforts. This vision evolved into Google.org, the company’s current philanthropic arm. On December...

This year’s Yale Philanthropy Conference centered on the theme of Adaptive Philanthropy, Resilient Sector. Much of the conference focused on the challenges and opportunities facing philanthropy in the current social and political climate. Conversations were deeply colored by the turbulence the...

When Georgia Levenson Keohane rides the New York City subway, she uses a monthly MetroCard that costs $121. Meanwhile, a New Yorker who can’t afford the monthly pass, but still needs to take two subway or bus rides a day, pays $165 overall. For thousands of students in the City University of...

Harvey Koh on Shaping Inclusive Markets Harvey Koh, managing director at the social change consulting firm FSG, presented at SOM as a guest of the Global Social Entrepreneurship club in November 2017 on research conducted in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation.  Over the...