Articles by Francisco Noguera
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Tuesday
December 2
2008NextBillion at the “Business of Inclusion” Conference in Cartagena, Colombia: A Preview
I’m writing from Cartagena, Colombia, where “The Business of Inclusion” conference will take place later this week. The conference is organized by the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Multilateral Investment Fund (FOMIN) and NextBillion has been invited to cover the...
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Tuesday
December 2
2008Net Impact: The Private Sector’s Role in Building Stable Business-Friendly Environments
Guest blogger Francesca van der Feltz is a graduating MS student with a focus in Asian Regional Business Environment at Thunderbird School of Global Management. She is the Net Impact president and Service Corps non-profit consulting leader on campus. She earned a BA in journalism from Arizona...
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Tuesday
November 25
2008Net Impact: Business Solutions to the Global Food Crisis
Guest blogger Bree Olivari is a second-year MBA candidate at Thunderbird Global School of Management and is a leader of the Net Impact chapter.?At Thunderbird, Bree integrates her interest in sustainable business with her degree in supply chain leadership. Her projects include mapping best...
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Sunday
November 23
2008Net Impact: Social Entrepreneurship at Work
Guest blogger Katherine Yue is a second-year MBA student at Thunderbird School of Global Management where she has assisted in research on business and capacity growth in microfinance and health microfranchises. She interned for FINCA Jordan in its founding year, strengthening business risk...
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Thursday
November 20
2008World Challenge ’08: Deadline for Voting is Tomorrow, 11/21
Back in April I posted news about the World Challenge competition, hosted by BBC and Newsweek. Well, I just got an e-mail from a friend reminding?me about it so I went to the competition’s?website, only to find out that the final round is on and that votes for one of the...
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Thursday
November 20
2008Net Impact: The Trade-Offs between Private Equity?s Returns and Development Impacts in Emerging Ma
Guest blogger Christi Huizenga is a second-year MBA student at Thunderbird School of Global Management.? Before Thunderbird, she spent five years in project management and business development for International Justice Mission, a human rights NGO.? Christi has a B.A. in Business...
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Wednesday
November 19
2008Net Impact: “Diarrhea Needs a Rockstar”
(Editor’s note: Today, November 19, is World Toilet Day, part of an awareness campaign led by Water Aid.?This post is timely to?stop for a second, think about and learn more a?crisis that?keeps 2.5 billion of the world’s poorest citizens away?from?basic sanitation services)Guest...
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Wednesday
November 19
2008Net 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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