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Bringing Sanitation Solutions Inside Homes: An Interview With Andy Narracott, Deputy Chief Executive of Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor
When the nonprofit Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) got together in 2010 with board member Unilever to explore new enterprise opportunities in sanitation, the consumer goods giant supported the idea wholeheartedly.
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- Health Care
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How Multinationals Can Tap Into ‘Conscious Innovation’: Interview With Brazil Innovator Lourenço Bustani on the New Way of Doing Business
Lourenço Bustani is a Brazilian innovator who decided to show the private market that it is possible to be prosperous without abdicating the most important human values. He founded Mandalah, an organization that helps corporations redefine their roles in society. Some of his customers are household names, from General Motors to Nike to Whirlpool, and the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Creating Employment Opportunities At the BoP: An Interview with Ajaya Mohapatra
A Q&A with Ajaya Mohapatra, Managing Director of Justrojgar India Private Limited – a for-profit venture bridging the demand-supply gap in informal sector jobs by sourcing, training and placing people living at the base of the pyramid.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship
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Solar Now, Water Later: An Interview With Sunsaluter’s Eden Full
Twenty-year-old Eden Full, who has been tinkering with solar technology for more than half of her young life, saw these dual challenges and designed a dual-purpose system that uses mechanical water flow to control the rotation of a solar panel to meet them. The SunSaluter, winner of the Mashable-UN Foundation Startups for Social Good Challenge, is a low-cost solar tracker and water filtration system.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship
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Can You Really Make a Fortune in Bop Health Care? An Interview With Paul Polak
Paul Polak has dedicated his life to promoting business solutions to global poverty. He believes there’s a fortune to be made in "radically affordable" products marketed to BoP customers. But does his approach work with the complexities of health care? And is for-profit business an ethical way of providing products that people literally can’t live without?
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- Health Care
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Weekly Roundup: What Tata Would Have Done Differently: In an Interview, Ratan Tata Says the Company Has Not Been Innovative Enough in Reaching the BoP
Ratan Tata will be stepping down as chairman of Tata Sons Ltd. As he says his goodbyes before his retirement in December, the already candid executive seems to be even more forthcoming about what his company has done right and what it has done wrong.
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- NextBillion Originals
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Insight into the Impact Investment Market: An Interview with Amit Bouri
J.P. Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) recently released “Insight into the Impact Investment Market,” a report incorporating data from over 2,200 private transactions and the perspectives of 52 impact investors on returns, risk and impact measurement practices. GIIN’s Amit Bouri details the progress and obstacles identified in the report.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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