Articles by NextBillion Editor
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Sunday
April 12
2015Twitter Top 10: 4-12-15
New resources. New partnerships. Even a cool new toilet. This week’s Twitter Top 10 is full of fascinating ideas and useful info, and you can help us get a head start on next week’s list. If you see anything interesting in the Twitterverse, you’re welcome to tweet it to our editors.
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- Agriculture, Education, Energy, Health Care
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Tuesday
April 7
2015Announcing the Winners of the 2015 Case Writing Competition: Different geographies and companies, face the question of expansion
Whether its mobile money in Nicaragua, a joint venture in Bangladesh or a tea company in the Amazon, the winners of the 2015 NextBillion Case Writing Competition all face the same question: What’s the smartest way to expand? Check out this year’s winners.
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- Education
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- research
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Sunday
March 29
2015Twitter Top Ten – 3/29/15
New partnerships. New data. New funding opportunities - even a (discouraging) new Twitter hashtag. This week in global development and social enterprise featured plenty of interesting stories, which generated no shortage of online chatter. We’ve sampled a bit of it, as always, in this top ten list.
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- Health Care
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Sunday
March 15
2015Twitter Top Ten – 3/15/15
In a typical week, the Twitter machine produces about 3.5 billion tweets. Some of them actually contain useful information ... like the ones in our weekly Twitter Top 10.
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- Health Care
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Sunday
March 8
2015Twitter Sunday : Read, enjoy, find someone new to follow
Etsy, the online handicrafts company and B-Corp, said in a regulatory filing last week it hopes to raise $100 million through an IPO. The company pegged its value at $2 billion, which served to ignite the Twitter nest.
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- Uncategorized
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Sunday
March 1
2015Twitter Top Ten – 3/1/15
Our weekly Twitter Top 10 is only a click away, and full of information. Among the highlights: Bill Gates put on his green eyeshade (you might have to look that one up, millennials) and assumed the role of editor.
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- Health Care
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Friday
February 27
2015NextBillion’s (First) Market Dynamics E-book: A compilation of posts from the first year of our initiative
The market – the same supply and demand interplay that has helped create order and prosperity in the developed world – is failing to serve health care in the developing world. That’s why “market dynamics” has become a term du jour in global health, and why NextBillion Health Care in spring 2014 launched an initiative aimed to exploring the concept. Now we’ve added an e-book.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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Sunday
February 15
2015Twitter Top Ten – 2/15/15
We’ve got plenty of tweets in this "Valentine’s Day Weekend" edition of our Twitter Top Ten. And we’ve even thrown in a holiday-themed tweet just for the occasion - a great example of behavioral science humor (yes, there is such a thing). Beyond that, we’ve got tweets covering everything from the ongoing debate over microcredit to the (hopeful) winding down of an epidemic in this week’s list.
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- Health Care