In Praise of Failure: The Need for Organizational Experimentation
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Channel: Columbia Business School · 2012 · Nonprofits & Activism
Linda Gibbs, deputy mayor for New York City's health and human services, delivered a keynote address at the Social Enterprise Leadership Forum: The Economics and Psychology of Poverty. Gibbs addressed the need and importance of reflexive evaluation of social welfare programs, a time-consuming and costly endeavor that she said is too often shunned by governmental and nonprofit organizations at their own long-term expense. Ray Fisman, the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and co-director of the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School, and Laurie Tisch, president of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, provided an introduction. To learn more about the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School visit http://www.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise
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