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Why the Failure of the Nano Has Been a Success
The Tata Nano’s launch failed by nearly every measure, including highly publicized flame outs of just purchased cars. Yet the $2,000 Nano gave companies thinking about emerging segments in emerging markets something to talk about. The hype caused firms of many sizes and industries to plan or imagine how their products might someday reach the poor.
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Villgro’s Unconvention 2011: Key Takeways
Unconvention 2011 hosted by Villgro in Chennai, India brought together some of the country’s brightest minds working in social enterprise and explored fundamental questions such as how social businesses can "mainstream" or "co-create" with multinationals, and whether in the term "social enterprise" will have currency in the next decade.
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Good News: IRIS Report Shows Many Impact Investing Recipients Are Profitable; But More Study Needed
The first Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS) performance data report collected data from nearly 2,400 mission-driven organizations, with 70% of responding microfinance institutions and 63% of portfolio organizations reporting profits. As importantly, the report adds to data-driven market intelligence for the impact investing industry.
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- Education
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- impact investing, research
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NexThought Monday: Let’s Help Acumen Fund Write the Next Chapter
Acumen Fund helped create a new DNA to fight poverty - one weaving together threads business and philanthropy into double helix of impact. Acumen recently reflected on its anniversary with the 10 Things We’ve Learned About Tackling Global Poverty series. NextBillion Community: Now it’s your turn. Let’s help Acumen write the next chapter.
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- Social Enterprise
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Weekly Roundup – 12/11/11 – The ’Tata Way’ Explained
The winter’s biggest national event for the UK’s youth social enterprise sector, the Tata Social Enterprise Conference, organized on behalf of the National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs (NACUE), was a call for ideas and action. Kishor Chaukar, managing director of Tata Industries, had plenty of both.
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Guest Post: Harnessing Technology for Transformation
Technology is not just being used to organize the Twitter/Facebook fueled uprisings in the Arab world. It is empowering citizens to intervene in risk-laden social issues, while providing a platform to rapidly scale these interventions. It’s time for the social sector to firmly commit to increasing our investments in these kinds of innovations.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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Peddling Poor Products to the Poor: What’s Our Responsibility?
Non-communicable diseases like diabetes and heart disease are now the biggest worldwide killers, surpassing infectious diseases like HIV, malaria and tuberculosis. As large businesses like Nestl? deepen their engagement in low-income markets, increasing sales of both beneficial and deleterious products to the poor, what is our responsibility?
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Affordable Housing for All – In Our Lifetime
In order to fix broken affordable housing value chains, each player needed to move from a mindset where they were competing for a limited ?wallet share, to one in which multiple players ? each with different assets to make the wallet actually expand in size - came together in significant and increasing numbers to overcome major obstacles.
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- Finance, Uncategorized
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- housing
