Social capital is the practice of developing and maintaining positive, healthy relationships. Those relationships make up the social networks of people willing to help each other when necessary.

Social capital is the intangible resources embedded within interpersonal relationships or social institutions. While social capital may seem simple to identify, it can be challenging to conceptualize ...

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 ...

It was just around a decade ago that Tom Lee, M.D., saw social capital working in full force at the Mayo Clinic. It's simply the norm at the renowned healthcare system to answer clinical pages right ...

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 ...

Community provides essential support in economically disadvantaged areas. Source: Lightspring/Shutterstock This post was co-authored by Sonya Faber, Ph.D., MBA, and ...

The word “meritocracy” has reached new heights, becoming ubiquitous in everyday conversation and in debates about identity politics. The concept is seemingly simple: Strong ability yields well-earned ...

Let’s just debunk a big ol’ myth right now: No one, and I repeat, no one makes it entirely based on their own merit. The concept of “meritocracy” as a path to success is misguided, because so many ...

Nine months ago, the once high-flying venture capital fund Social Capital made the bold decision to stop accepting outside capital and operate as a family office, in essence. The co-founder of the ...