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Job: Director, TED Fellowship Program
Position: Director, TED Fellowship ProgramLocation: New York, NYOrganization: TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.The annual conference now...
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Event: “Creative Capitalism” – Can It Meet the Needs of the World’s Poor?
Event: “Creative Capitalism": Can It Meet the Needs of the World’s Poor? Date: Wednesday, January 30, 12:00 - 2:00 Location: Hudson Institute - Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center - 1015 15th Street, NW - Suite 600 Description: Noting in his recent address to the...
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Innovate or Die
’Innovate or die’ is the challenge issued by the pedal-powered machine contest sponsored by Google and Specialized Bicycle Components. All 102 inventions are based on basic bicycle mechanics; entries range from a pedal-powered tennis ball launcher to the grand prize-winning invention,...
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Bill Gates Calls for Capitalism That Serves the Poor
In a speech at Davos today, Bill Gates called for a more inclusive capitalism that “would have a twin mission: making profits and also improving lives for those who don’t fully benefit from market forces.” That is a major milestone in the evolving thinking of perhaps the most...
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Spotlighting “Creative Capitalism:” It Is What You See
Today, Bill Gates’ speech at Davos has thrown the spotlight on “creative capitalism” and an emerging groundswell of interest in market-based solutions and business models that can drive positive social and environmental change. The excitement around these ideas to create...
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Srijan Microfinance Business Plan Competition 2008
Intellecap in partnership with Aavishkaar Goodwell and The Financial Express has announced the launch of the Srijan Microfinance Business Plan Competition 2008. Deadline: March 15, 2008Srijan (meaning creation in English) is a search for entrepreneurs, groups, individuals and microfinance...
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Shell and Envirofit Partner on BoP Cookstoves
Guest blogger Bill Kramer is principal of The Global Challenge Network, LLC, an executive education and training company. From 2001 through mid-2007, he worked on pro-poor business strategies with WRI. Previously, Bill founded a non-profit focusing on the relationship of knowledge to economic...
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Profitable Business Models and Market Creation in Deep Poverty
I recently had the opportunity to read an IESE occasional Paper, ?Profitable Business Models and Market Creation in the Context of Deep Poverty: A Strategic View? by Christina Seelos and Johanna Mair of the IESE Business School ? University of Navarra.What makes the paper refreshingly...
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