Articles by Scott Anderson
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Sunday
February 12
2012Weekly Roundup: 2-12-12 – ROI (Return on Impact)
Credit Suisse Research Institute, in collaboration with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, recently released “Investing for Impact: How social entrepreneurship is redefining the meaning of return." It’s a detailed yet eminently readable report on the state of play.
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Thursday
February 9
2012Welcoming NextBillion’s Content Partners
Each of these organizations are recognized leaders in their arenas, from enterprise development to financial inclusion and education, from micro and small business lending to patient capital partnerships. While they may have differing missions, they all contribute financial support, expertise, and mind share - and usually combinations of all three - to the cause of poverty alleviation through enterprise.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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Sunday
February 5
2012Weekly Roundup: 2-5-12 – Considering Pakistan, Reconsidering Incubators
This week on NextBillion our contributors tackled a new prescription for microfinance transparency, Pakistan’s potential for social enterprise, a key study in advancing impact investing, and a Q&A with Anurag Jain, who left the corporate world of Dell to launch a new incubator focused on four key sectors.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment
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Wednesday
February 1
2012Incubator and Impact Investor Aims for Multiple BoP Sectors
In July 2011, Anurag Jain decided to leave his position as the head of Dell’s Services Delivery unit, where he lead a team of thousands of IT professionals working in key infrastructure areas like cloud computing, applications, and business process solutions. Jain, an engineer and entrepreneur, decided to focus exclusively on growing a multi-sector BoP impact investing incubator, Anavo Global LLC.
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- Health Care
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Sunday
January 29
2012Weekly Roundup: 1-29-12 – Creative Destruction in Response to Disaster
It would seem the real destruction in Haiti has encouraged a creative destruction of outmoded business practices in favor of new models to empower the Haitian people and their economy. Zafèn, which literally means “it’s our business’ in Haitian Creole, is but one example to emerge.
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Friday
January 20
2012The NEXT NextBillion …
Just a quick note to all NextBillion readers:
We are moving to a new site design/platform and are going through the proverbial Beta testing. Please bear with us while we work the kinks out over the next few days and bring new systems online.
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Tuesday
December 20
2011NextBillion is Now Available on Google Currents
Some of you, in fact nearly 2,000 of you as of this writing, have discovered that NextBillion was recently included among the first 180 content providers in the new Google Currents application. For everyone else with an Android phone or tablet, or an iPhone or iPad, we hope you join us by downloading the free Google Currents and subscribing to NB.
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Friday
December 16
2011Growing Up Fast, What the Dalberg Survey Tells Us About Successful Social Entrepreneurs
Want to find out what made the good enterprises great - and not just in anecdotal form? Dalberg Global Development Advisors clearly thought so. Working with Harvard, the consulting firm polled more than 60 social entreprenurs to find out how they lept the hurdles that every venture faces. Check out the survey and a replay of the live webinar.
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- Education, Social Enterprise