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Net Impact: Hype vs. Reality in the Social Enterprise Movement
Guest blogger Matt Austin is a second-year MBA student at Thunderbird School of Global Management focusing on the intersection of international development, entrepreneurship and venture capital. He spent this past summer advising a group of Endeavor High Impact Entrepreneurs in Turkey on their...
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Net Impact: The New Appeal of Metrics and Evaluation
Guest blogger Kelly McCarthy is?a Communications Manager and Research Analyst for the New Ventures Project at the World Resources Institute. Her current work focuses on developing impact metrics for the enterprise development community.By Kelly McCarthy?There was a lot of buzz about...
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Net Impact: Impact Measurement and the Importance of Asking the Right Questions
Guest blogger Miguel Jardine is a first-year MBA student at Thunderbird School of Global Management where he focuses on Green Capital Allocation.? At Thunderbird, he has further developed his ideas on Triple Bottom Line value propositions and the leadership role of business in igniting...
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Guest Post: Compassion, Empathy and the Growth of Social Business, An Inspiring Day at Santa Clara U
Guest blogger Karen Lynn Vincent, a serial social benefit entrepreneur, is the co-founder and current chief operating officer at Resdida, a hybrid social business distributing content via mobile devices to the rural poor. She also works with the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) in the...
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Tech Awards 2008: Silicon Valley Turns to Technologies that Benefit the World’s Poorest Citizens
I had the opportunity to attend the Tech Museum Awards ceremony last week in San Jose, California. ?What’s interesting about this annual event is not just the social entrepreneurs and their sometimes quite remarkable innovations, but also the way Silicon Valley turns out to honor them and,...
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Net Impact: Unreasonable People and The Role of Entrepreneurs in Shaping Tomorrow’s Markets
Last Saturday morning was gray, rainy and windy in Philadelphia, but it didn’t keep the Net Impact conference from building momentum. I began the day attending a session led by the Base of the Pyramid Protocol team. It was interesting to get a closer feel of this tool; a detailed wrap up of...
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Net Impact: 2,400 Reasons to Be Optimistic
It has been a fascinating morning, not without a funny feeling of nostalgia. A year ago I was logging in to read about the happenings at the Net Impact conference during my breaks writing essays and completing business school applications. In all of them, I tried to make sure to state my...
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Guest Post: The Role of Design in Social Entrepreneurship
Guest blogger Sami Nerenberg is an adjunct faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design, teaching the advanced studio Design for Social Entrepreneurship. She also is a member of the Grain collaborative and previously worked for the nonprofits, Design that Matters and Greenblue.Co-contributors...
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