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After the Dust Has Settled… Enduring Hybrid Value at CGI
At the end of September, and for the second year in a row, I found myself in the hype and occasional motorcade-induced street closure that is the Clinton Global Initiative. After five years, is CGI living up to its story of creating action, not conversation, and sparking new collaborations between industry and the NGO sector?
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Why Entrepreneurs Should Seek A Strong Board of Directors
Entrepreneurs like to control their own destiny. Indeed, as Ricardo Levy recounts in his book, Letters to a Young Entrepreneur, that urge to be free drove him from the comfortable ranks of a large corporation to start his first new company. Why then would an entrepreneur want to shackle that freedom by creating a powerful Board of Directors?
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Forum Looks at BoP in Brazil
Tomorrow in S?o Paulo, Brazil, NextBillion along with several other stakeholders, will participate an event on "Modelos De Negocios Que Reduzem a Pobreza" or for the non-Portuguese speaker, Business Models that Reduce Poverty. I briefly spoke with Rob Parkison, Coordinator for ANDE’s Brazil Regional Hub and organizer of the event.
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Impact Investing Forum Coming Up ? Testing the ground in Europe
From Nov. 29 to Dec. 1, institutional and private investors, foundations, social investment funds and all those already active or interested in entering the field are invited to come to London for a series of workshops and panels to dive deeper into current issues. It will be a good chance to take Europe’s temperature on impact investing.
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Being Comfortable With Uncertainty and Other ’Letters’ to Entrepreneurs
Ricardo Levy is one of those rare entrepreneurs who is reflective and even analytical about the entrepreneurial process, and he’s written a book reflecting on those challenges, typical of those every entrepreneur faces, and how he solved them. The book, Letters To a Young Entrepreneur, is explicitly a guidebook for young entrepreneurs.
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Financial Services for All Kenyans: Equity Bank and M-PESA Go Head to Head
Kenya is home to two extraordinary, but very different, financial service providers that have reached massive scale with unprecedented speed: Equity Bank and Safaricom’s M-PESA.
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Inspire, Empower, Connect: Celebrating Entrepreneurship in the MENASA region
Last week the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region (MENASA) saw a truly amazing ?Celebration of Entrepreneurship?. Entrepreneurs, business professionals, investors, academics and policy makers from across MENASA and beyond gathered in Dubai for this landmark event hosted by Abraaj capital, the regions largest private equity fund.
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CSR That Works: Interview with Hindustan Unilever’s former Chairman and MD, Vindi Banga
I had the unique opportunity to chat with Vindi Banga, former Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Limited, Unilever’s $3.9 billion subsidiary in India. Hindustan Unilever’s unique and effective CSR program employed 60,000 women entrepreneurs in villages to sell Unilever products at affordable prices to the base of the pyramid.
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