SoftBank-backed home-selling platform Opendoor is going public through a merger with a blank-check company led by venture ...

Robert Putnam famously diagnosed America as "bowling alone" 25 years ago. Things have just gotten lonelier—and Trumpier—since ...

Political scientist Robert Putnam wants to fix the U.S.

Jay Hughes, a pioneer in family wealth, shares the five capitals he believes keep fortunes from fading.

The concept of social capital has been inconsistently defined and described.[i] That should not be surprising, given that social capital is intangible and not easily measured. (The same is true of ...

Sometimes, it’s not what you know but who you know—a saying that has withstood the test of time and still rings true today. Discerning entrepreneurs know their success would not have materialized ...

Words and phrases, as they say, can do a lot of work. Sometimes, evocative terms can be useful even if they paper over imprecise concepts or obscure definitional disagreement. But vagueness often ...

EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities A recent study found a whopping 85% of jobs are filled through relationships. Imagine a network of successful ...

For too long, we’ve measured ourselves on one metric: Our bank balance. This has left many of us feeling perpetually like the “have-nots” of the economy. But with social capital in our pockets - what ...

The Quezon City government is aiming to become the country’s “social enterprise capital” by 2028, as the city reaffirmed its ...