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Social Capital Markets: Mike Lee on Money and Meaning
Guest blogger Mike Lee is a 2nd-year MBA student at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and leads the Net Impact chapter.? Prior to Haas, Mike worked as an evaluation consultant for NGOs and Foundations and also at Ashoka.? Mike is an alumnus of the Coro Fellows Program in Public...
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Social Capital Markets: David Auerbach on Market Creators
Guest blogger David Auerbach works on strategic growth projects for Endeavor, a global organization that supports high-impact entrepreneurs.? He is a 2003 graduate of Yale University.By David AuerbachThe “Market Creators” panel at SoCap08 provided an excellent primer in what...
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Social Capital Markets: “The Sector Still in A Rudimentary Stage”
Asad Mahmood, who leads Deutsche Bank’s social investing arm, took the stage for today’s keynote address at the Social Capital Markets conference. His intervention closed the formal sessions that took place during the first day of conference. I met Asad a couple of years back in...
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Social Capital Markets: Power to the People Through Democratic Capital
With three weeks to go before the U.S. presidential election, it?s no surprise that there?s a lot of interest in democracy here at the Social Capital Markets conference.? Fortunately, the conversation has (thus far) steered clear of moose burgers and the Weather Underground.? After all,...
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From Social Capital Markets: Social Entrepreneurs Turning Into Sustainable Organizations
Monday afternoon sessions just kicked off with the panels on each of the three tracks here at SoCap08. The “Social Entrepreneur Track” is of special interest to me, as it concernes the tools and skills needed to turn social entrepreneurs into sustainable and scalable organizations...
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Social Capital Markets: Too Many People, Not Enough Seats
Not yet.? That was the first message I heard at Social Capital Markets today, as I approached the registration table; they weren?t ready for me yet.? In fact, they weren?t ready for me, nor were they ready for the 20 other people who had queued up early.? If there?s any indication of...
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Talent at the Base of the Pyramid: The Role of the Expat
The traditional talent support approach for base of the pyramid (BoP) projects has been a sending model: workers/professionals from the developed world are sent by an organization to a developing country to manage a local project. The American Peace Corps was established with the intent of...
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Guest Post: “Imagine the Base of the Pyramid Using Social Networks”
Guest blogger Jenara Nerenberg is the Founder of BOP Source. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard University and lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, where she is a Columnist for a national business magazine and a Consultant on new media marketing. Jenara was a Consultant to the Harvard Center...
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