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Report from Harvard Social Enterprise Conference (2)
Guest blogger Miles Lasater is founder and COO of Higher One which provides financial services to colleges and students.? As creator of the Yale’s annual business plan competition, the Y50k, he was instrumental in ensuring that it has a Social Entrepreneurship category.? He has a hobby as...
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Report from Harvard’s Social Enterprise Conference
Guest blogger Nicholas P. Sullivan has written widely about technology and entrepreneurship, most notably as editor-in-chief of Inc.com. He compiles the annual Wealth of Nations Index, a ranking of seventy developing countries, is publisher of Innovations: Technology/Governance/Globalization...
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Rising Ventures Investor Edition: A New Fund Sets the Bar For Sustainable Investment
Could Brazil break the curve on sustainable investing? If Philippe Lisbona, manager of the new Stratus VCIII fund has his way, the country’s investment landscape could look significantly different in the next decade. Philippe’s call waiting kept buzzing incessantly during our recent...
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Microfinance: Good for Growth, or Overblown?
An interesting debate about the efficacy of microfinance has been going on lately, pitting development experts and economists against one another as they seek to understand the impact of microfinance on economic growth and well-being.The whole thing started with an op-ed in the Wall Street...
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Good News for a Change
My one-line review of Fast Company’s March issue and its annual Fast 50 list: “It’s exciting.” It’s green, it’s sustainable, and it has BOP written all over it, both literally and sequentially (from the Letter from the Editor, to Andrew Zolli’s Business 3.0, to...
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Behind the Scenes at UN Meets Silicon Valley
Last week, I attended “UN Meets Silicon Valley,” an event convened by the UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development.? Craig Barrett, former CEO and now Chairman of Intel (full disclosure: WRI and Intel are partners), also chairs the UNGAID.? Going in, I was a bit skeptical, since...
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BOP Announcements: Citi Job, Tech Awards, CGAP Prize
As we move into the weekend, here are a couple of BOP announcements (a prize, an innovation challenge, and a job) that should pique your interest. Coming soon ? a report from the UN Meets Silicon Valley event held this week that I attended, and a review of the Fast 50 Awards in this...
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IPEG Follow-Up: Aman Bhandari and Agora Partnerships
Last Thursday, the DC chapter of the International Private Enterprise Group (IPEG) met at the Science Club in downtown Washington, DC. About 30 people were on hand to hear presentations from Aman Bhandari, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland and Beth Boomgard of AED’s...
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