So We Have Introduced Mobile Money: What now?

Radical Social Innovations are selfishly driven by necessity. It was necessity that made BRAC graduate people out of poverty; it was necessity that made BRAC believe that the essence of millions of hu... Read More

Innovating for a better organization: learning from NYC’s mayor

Ishtiaque

Managing change can be hard. Making people accept that ‘change’ is happening and alter the way they function is harder. Doing both at the same time at a large organization with a ‘set’ way of ... Read More

A few reflections on last week’s board meeting

maria

For those of you who weren’t able to attend the open session (one day of the Board’s discussions were shown in viewing rooms for staff), it was fantastic! I walked away with a much bette... Read More

Big names and ideas in social entrepreneurship

maria

Particularly in recent years, the term “social entrepreneurship” has gained a lot of popularity. Around the world, people are developing novel approaches to tackle “intractable pro... Read More

Re-cap of the Innovation Forum on Bridge Academy

maria

On December 1, the BRAC Social Innovation Lab organized its second Innovation Forum. The question: would a for-profit private school model from Kenya work in Bangladesh? Asif Saleh presented some ob... Read More

Social innovation and scale

maria

McKinsey, an international consulting firm, recently published a series on social innovation. This article on social innovation at scale seemed particularly relevant to an organization like BRAC. ... Read More