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Not a Formality: The Productivity of Capital
In a previous post, I described why the BoP can’t yet mobilize the $10 trillion of assets they already own. If they ever get the chance to do so, alongside other fresh and creative channels for mobilizing capital, the productivity of capital comes to mind as the next challenge for growing BoP businesses. Here’s a thought experiment to illustrate...
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NYU: Measuring Impact, Valuing Investment
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Sixth Annual NYU Conference of Social Entrepreneurs here in New York. The day-long conference brought practitioners together with academics for a day-long discourse on measuring impact and valuing (social) investment.
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New Social Venture Creation Course at the University of Michigan
The new UofM Social Venture Creation Course seeks to be an innovative, action-based learning laboratory that brings students (both undergrads and grads) across disciplines to work on solving society?s challenges ? together.
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Weekly Round-Up: Financial Services Friday
Here are stories that caught my eye this week, an event coming up in San Francisco, and an opportunity for bloggers writing at the intersection of technology and poverty.
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Base of the Pyramid Career Paths: What Would You Ask?
Are you interested in getting involved in social enterprise? In finding a job and build a career around it? Perhaps even starting a venture of your own or join one that is in early stage? If your answer to any of the above was yes, you’d probably be interested in knowing how you can best prepare yourself for it.
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CK Prahalad Releases Two New Case Studies
According to Thinkers 50, a biennial ranking of business gurus, C.K. Prahalad is the most influential management thinker in the world. This is the second straight time that Prahalad has topped the list. Now C.K. Prahalad has released two new BoP case studies: Jaipur Rugs and Bharti Airtel.
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Innovative Approaches to Access: NGOs Explore Opportunities in Water
Almost half the developing world’s population - 2.5 billion people - lack improved sanitation facilities, and over 884 million people still lack access to safe drinking water. The Clean Water Roundtable was recently held at the Haas School of Business, at University of California Berkeley to explore sustainable solutions to clean drinking water.
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Impact Reporting and Investment Standards – Comment Now!
The idea that for-profit investment can have positive social and environmental impact has been talked about for some time, and is increasingly being put to practice. This phenomenon of Impact Investing has the potential to complement philanthropy and government in addressing to some of the planet’s most deeply entrenched challenges...
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