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Google.org Hiring BOP Staff
NB’s Chapel Hill NC correspondent, Jacob Kramer-Duffield, has sent an interesting job posting our way.? Jake, a former sometime WRI staffer, and now a PhD student at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science, keeps close tabs on the goings-on at Google.? Google.org, the...
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Wal-Mart’s Base of the Pyramid Play
There are skeptics in any field ? base of the pyramid business is no different. Over the years, however, the nature of BOP skepticism has changed. At first, many questioned whether low-income, emerging markets really mattered to businesses’ bottom lines and growth strategies. While...
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$50,000 prizes, 25 Laureates, 1 Bill Gates
Ah, the Tech Museum Awards. It was a night when large tech companies and foundations joined together to support the work of smaller humanitarian tech innovators.Last Wednesday, Intel, Accenture, Microsoft, Agilent, and the Swanson Foundation recognized the work of 25 organizations through the...
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Village: The Game Update
I first reported on Village: The Game ? think SimCity meets social entrepreneurship ? back in August.? At the time, the game’s web site featured little more than a proposal and the passionate musings of its creator, Darian Hickman.? I checked back in on Village: The Game today, and...
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Don’t Miss the Fast 50 Awards!
As I looked over the Social Capitalist Award winners (again) this morning, I couldn’t help thinking about the Fast 50 Awards - also done by Fast Company. While the Social Capitalist Awards include NGOs and charities that are using business strategies to make the world better, the Fast...
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Rising Ventures: Gram Mooligai Brings Healthcare to India’s Rural Poor
Three quarters of India’s population lives in rural areas. Individual households in these communities tend to spend about $50 per year on primary healthcare. This is hardly enough to pay for private coverage, yet many of these underserved consumers are not reached by government programs. ...
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BOP Job Announcement – Monitor Group
I received an e-mail from Chris Coldeway, a Worldchanging colleague who recently moved to India to work for the strategy consulting firm Monitor Group. Chris is working with Monitor to build its consulting practice in Mumbai around “market-based strategies to create social change.” ...
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The World Investors Should See
Map adjusted to reflect national populations in 2050Investment in emerging economies is on the rise, following an increasing awareness of the improving business climate in these countries as well as burgeoning, high-growth green sectors. These were the thoughts of participants in a recent...
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