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BoP Health Care Gets a $10 Million Boost: What Duke’s new SEAD program could mean for you
Few universities are as active in BoP health care and social entrepreneurship as Duke. Now, thanks to a $10 million award from USAID, the university is poised to dramatically expand its impact in both fields. Duke will use the funds to launch the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), a development lab that will identify and support solutions to global health challenges in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Education, Health Care
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Fear Factor: Should we scare people into healthy behavior?
Fear-based marketing is a controversial topic - especially when graphic images are involved. Yet many health care organizations and advocates have used it to attract attention and change health behaviors. But is graphic fear-based marketing effective - and ethical? And should it be put to use more in BoP communities?
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- Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health, research
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NexThought Monday : Customer Experience needs to drive vision at the BoP business, not vice versa
Base of the pyramid (BoP) organizations may arguably have some of the best intentions the private sector has to offer. But even they don’t always get it right. Many need to introduce customer experience to companies and organizations that count the BoP as customers. Customer what? Customer experience goes beyond customer service, beyond working once or twice with a representative.
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- Education
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- product design
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Deal leaves risks for global health to fall or be pushed off the cliff
Will the U.S. government's fiscal cliff deal mean steep drops in global health and research funding?
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- Education, Health Care
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UT Arlington receives Grand Challenges Explorations grant for research in global health
A new research grant could lead to new ways to cool vaccines and medicine that must be shipped to remote parts of the world without ready access to electricity.
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- Education, Health Care
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- academia, public health
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Doctors Without Training: Can regulatory innovations close the quality gap in BoP health care?
In many countries, shortfalls in health care quality are not the exception but the rule. In one rural Indian state, for example, a recent paper found that 67 percent of sampled health care providers reported no medical qualifications at all. But a number of regulatory innovations promise to address this problem - often by developing market-based alternatives to government regulation.
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- Education, Health Care
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- governance, public health, research
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Why Toilets, Not Cell Phones, Are Key To Education Around The World
John Kluge says things many people want to say, but don’t because they think it’s taboo. Kluge is out to change that.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care
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There is a Fortune at the BoP: So why aren’t large corporations capturing it?
The first generation of writings on the "bottom of the pyramid" were based on the premise that large corporations are better positioned to address the market. But the experience of recent years shows in practice, large corporations have not always responded enthusiastically to the challenge.
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- Education
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