Articles by Scott Anderson
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Saturday
March 16
2013Weekly Roundup 3/16/13: Forcing CSR in India
This week I learned about two recent machinations by the Indian government to foster both corporate social responsibility and investments in base of the pyramid enterprises. The two initiatives have left me truly ambivalent. The first seems like a big misstep waiting to happen, while the second looks like a sure-footed step in the right direction.
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Saturday
March 9
2013Weekly Roundup (3/9/13): Moving Closer to Financial Equality: Reflecting on International Women’s Day
Over the last couple of days NextBillion has been a platform for women with some important, concrete ideas on increasing financial inclusion and bridging the gender gap. These women leaders are illuminating not only the barriers to financial inclusion for women, but the ways over, around or under them.
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Thursday
March 7
2013February’s ‘NextBillies’ : The most-read, most shared posts for February
Welcome once again to the “NextBillies,” our monthly awards recognizing the most-read and most-discussed posts on NextBillion from the previous month. Unfortunately, we have no trophies, no Oscar-like awards to hand out, and no black tie optional gala. On the upside, we offer something far superior to our winners: Deep and abiding appreciation for their efforts. And isn’t that better than some chintzy trophy or glitzy after-party?
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Saturday
March 2
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February 23
2013Weekly Roundup (2-23-13): : Just ‘showing up’ – that’s not enough for these entrepreneurs
Woody Allen once famously said that “90 percent of life is just showing up.”That might apply for some professions (mine included, perhaps), but I don’t think the comic filmmaker had entrepreneurs in mind when he coined it. For those with the drive to start a business, particularly a socially inclined one, I’d say only 30 percent of their success is merely showing up – with a basic business plan in hand, that is.
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Saturday
February 2
2013The Weekly Roundup (2/2/13) : Formal, informal and ‘Unreasonable’
This week’s roundup looks at tactics for building a BoP customer base, the new Informal City Dialogues project and the 2013 cohort of social entrepreneurs hoping to attend the Unreasonable Institute.
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Thursday
January 31
2013And the Most Influential Post of 2012 is … Drumroll Please
Some 731 of you cast ballots the Most Influential Post on NextBillion in 2012. Thank you for participating! … And now, here are the results.
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Sunday
January 27
2013Weekly Roundup 1/27/13: Social Entrepreneurs, Davos and making infrastructure sexy
The rarified air and the elites who occupy it during the World Economic Forum in snowy Davos, Switzerland always receive their fair share of criticism. But anecdotally, there seems to be a noticeable shift in how social entrepreneurs are approaching lasting and sustainable impact, and the mechanism is infrastructure.
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