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Celebrity Breasts and Patented Genes: Why the test that may save Angelina Jolie’s life is too expensive for the BoP (Bi-Weekly Checkup – 5/24/13)
Angelina Jolie recently got a preventive double mastectomy, after a genetic test revealed her elevated risk of breast cancer. But breast cancer kills over 450,000 a year, mainly in developing countries. And the genetic test Jolie got costs over $3,000, because a company holds a patent on the genes themselves.
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Paying for Health Emergencies: New research points to practical financial solutions for India’s urban poor
How do Indian families living in urban poverty pay for health care emergencies? A recent Michael & Susan Dell Foundation study of families in five Mumbai slums tries to answer that question. The results point to opportunities for entrepreneurs and established financial service providers to tap this underserved market and have a positive impact on the lives of India’s urban poor.
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Going Local for Food Security : Winners of GBSN MBA+ Challenge Video Contest also tackle solar power, supply chains
MamaCarts was created because our team saw an opportunity in the breakdown of current systems. By taking a grassroots approach we will be able to create localized ripples in community health and economic stability, one meal at a time. Our next step is to finalize partnerships on the ground and launch a pilot in Kenya.
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NYU Teams Win $200K In Stern’s 2012-2013 Entrepreneurs Challenge
NYU’s most promising innovators received a combined $200,000 in startup cash at the annual $200K Entrepreneurs Challenge held by NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
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Weekly Roundup – 5/19/13: A ‘fork in the road’ for B-Schools
Many business schools have maintained social entrepreneurship education in the same way that corporations cordon off corporate social responsibility initiatives. That is, the CSR projects are highlighted in glossy brochures or annual reports, but are rarely integrated into the core of the company’s operations. Infusing social business knowledge into the standard courses within curriculum, is just one way to potentially break the pattern many lament.
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Putting the Horse Back in Front of the Cart: The dominant model of business education is broken
We desperately need new models of business education and entrepreneurial development appropriate to the challenges we face in the 21st century, which include epidemic inequality, ecosystem degradation, and a looming climate crisis.It is for this reason that I have become closely involved in the founding of the new Emergent Institute (originally the Indian Institute for Sustainable Enterprise), based in Bangalore, India.
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Rockefeller Foundation To Pump $97 Million Into African Digital Jobs
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced that it will pledge $97 million to create jobs in the digital field in Africa as part of its ongoing initiative to create jobs for young Africans in the rapidly growing information and communications technology (ICT) enabled sectors in the continent.
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In Africa, the best ‘charity’ is aid for business
The traditional approach to solving Africa’s problems has been to rely on charity and aid – free money, more or less. And while charity has done much good for millions across the continent in terms of food security, health care, emergency response, and education, its chief weakness is that its results have not proven sustainable. Africa finds itself continually going back to donors simply to maintain the status quo. What the continent really needs is to create the environment – political, economic, and social – to achieve self-sufficiency.
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