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What McDonald’s Could Learn from Aravind
There’s certainly a “sauce” that makes Aravind special, according to Dr. R.D. Ravindran, the organization's chairman and director of quality, but it’s not secret. It all boils down to a culture of respect, and Aravind isn't shy in talking about it.
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Weekly Roundup 11-13-15: What’s in a Name?
According to Pamela Hartigan, director of the Skoll Centre at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, “social enterprise” is a mindset, not a “sector,” and we’d all be better off recognizing that.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Three Keys to Engaging Women Farmers
Women in sub-Saharan Africa produce up to 80 percent of all foodstuffs, but often struggle, for various reasons, to access the resources that they need to achieve higher yields on their farms. Their families and communities often suffer as a result. It's a dilemma TechnoServe is addressing with its Smallholder Poultry Agribusiness Development (SPADE) initiative.
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The Human Foundation for Digital Financial Services
Agents are the bricks and mortar of a digital financial services business. With payment banks in India designing their strategies for building their agent networks, they must also ensure they get the operations right, putting high quality agents in the market, supporting them effectively, and playing their part in seeding the demand they need to earn a decent revenue.
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Three Key Lessons for Responsible Digital Finance
Xavier Giné (World Bank), Greg Fischer (London School of Economics) and Dean Karlan (Yale University) discuss the challenges and opportunities in designing digital financial services for the poor.
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Not Just Child’s Play: Why the financial services industry can – and should – support children’s well-being
A new research paper released by the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) explores the relationship between a family’s financial health and its children’s well-being, illuminating the need and opportunity for financial services to play a greater role in supporting child and family success. Doing so can help providers deepen relationships with customers today and with their children in the future.
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Tools for Economic Empowerment: Virtual learning in the Vital Voices GROW Fellowship
In this, the third in a series of articles about women entrepreneurs participating in the year-long Vital Voices GROW Fellowship, they speak in glowing terms of the virtual learning part of their training. Next up, they'll gather for in-person training.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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Weekly Roundup 11-6-15: Rotary provides blueprint against disease, but passion’s hard to duplicate
Polio has almost totally been eliminated and Rotary International deserves much of the credit. As an added bonus, this U.S.-based service organization composed of business and professional leaders has given the world a playbook to fight deadly diseases.
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