Articles by Josh Cleveland
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Guest Articles
Wednesday
February 23
2011Advancing Healthcare With the BoP: To Emerging Markets and Back Again
What happens when a large U.S.-based multinational company wants to get a product to market in the BoP? For Pfizer and GE, the approach is two-fold: part market-based and part philanthropic but both closely linked to market objectives of the firms.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Wednesday
February 2
2011In Search of Innovation: Prize Incentives for International Development
As competitions like the Automotive X-Prize to the NetFlix Prize show, incentive-based mechanisms also can be effective catalysts for international development. Yet as Vicky Hausman, Associate Partner at Dalberg Global Development Advisors tells us, ?announcing a cash reward and a set of rules is often not enough to achieve the desired result."
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- Impact Assessment
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Thursday
December 2
2010In Search of Innovation: Flexible Capital
From Omidyar’s perspective, innovation in philanthropy can be amplified through a "flexible capital" approach, one that at times leaves the familiarity of grant making and enters the field of investing. This approach considers a variety of funding instruments as potential tools to address a social problem.
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- Agriculture
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Guest Articles
Monday
November 1
2010NextThought Monday: Social Enterprise on the Cover of the Economist
No, not this week and probably not next week either. But in five years, it’s going to happen. The Economist, however, did recently run an article titled: "Companies Aren’t Charities," which argues that the role of a company in developing economies should be confined to pursuing profit while abiding by the rules and a solid moral compass.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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Friday
October 8
2010SOCAP10: Learning for Social Impact
From SOCAP10, a Q&A with Laura Callanan, who leads McKinsey & Co.’s research on social impact assessment and social investing. Laura identifies three key trends that give her hope that social impact assessment is moving in the right direction.
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Wednesday
October 6
2010SOCAP 10: “It Takes a Village”
Stepping out of the investment world and into conversations with practitioners of social enterprise at SoCap is a bit like leaving the library and entering the lab. This is the first of two posts focused on the perspectives from the field as presented at SoCap10 on building lasting relationships and design ideas to take an organization to scale.
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Tuesday
October 5
2010SOCAP10: Where the Action Is, the Fastest Growing Markets and Industries
It depends on exactly what type of action you?re talking about. For those in the audience hoping for a crystal-clear answer along the lines of ?solar energy in sub-Saharan Africa," they didn’t get one. But that doesn?t mean the panelists didn?t offer some valuable insights on what’s hot moving forward.
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Tuesday
October 5
2010Kicking Off SOCAP 10, Novogratz Sets the Tone
Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, gets things started at SOCAP 2010. We?re working in a new and nascent industry that is trying to define itself and has a long way to go, she said.
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