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Can a Hospital Be a Breakthrough Innovation?
Guest blogger Sasha Dichter is Director of Business Development at Acumen Fund. Before joining Acumen, Dichter held senior positions in the corporate citizenship departments of GE Money and IBM. He earned a B.A., M.A., and M.B.A., all from Harvard University.By Sasha DichterLifeSpring’s...
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World Business and Development Awards Launched
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) have opened nominations for the 2008 World Business and Development Awards in support of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The awards...
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The Wealth of the Poor: How Ecosystem Services Benefit the Base of the Pyramid
Guest blogger Karen Bennett is a Research Program Coordinator at the World Resources Institute. Her current work focuses on mainstreaming an ecosystem services approach to assure ecosystems’ capacity to provide humans with needed goods and services. She also provides support to projects in...
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Happy Third Birthday, NextBillion
According to the National Network for Child Care, a typical three year-old is “full of wonder and spends a lot of time watching, observing, and imitating. Their days are filled with busy exploration of their world.” Yesterday, on the occasion of NextBillion.net’s third birthday,...
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Los Siguientes 4 Mil Millones: Tama?o del Mercado y Estrategia de Negocios en la Base de la Pir?mi
I am glad to announce the release of “Los Siguientes 4 Mil Millones: Tama?o de Mercado y Estrategia de Negocios en la Base de la Pir?mide", the Spanish language version of WRI and IFC’s milestone report “The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Busines Strategy at the Base of...
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Job: Associate, Satya Capital
UPDATE: THIS POST IS NO LONGER ACTIVE Position: Associate/Director Location: London Organization: Satya Capital Limited is a private investment firm specializing in Africa-related investment, providing companies with the operational, technological and financial resources they need to expand and take advantage of burgeoning...
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Base of the Pyramid Scaling Series Now Online in One Place
A quick announcement for readers who only caught bits and pieces of the sector scaling series we ran last week and others who just want to see all of the commentary in one place - we recently packaged all of the series in PDF format and posted it in our resources section. For those who...
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Microfinance and the Rule of Law: From the Coffeehouse to the Credit Bureau
A recent Forbes publication, “Microfinance Fights Growing Pains,” examined the rapid growth and associated challenges of the microfinance field. As noted in the article (and thanks to Vital Wave Consulting for highlighting this), the explosion of new entrants and the overall rapid...
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