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Are you the next Mark Zuckerberg?
New tests are helping loan officers assess entrepreneurs -- and weed out the bad investment risks from the good
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Socially Contagious: How Microclinic International is Spreading Healthy Behaviors
Whether you’re buying shoes or making health-related decisions, your behavior is influenced by those around you. That’s the premise behind Microclinic International, which uses social networks to make good health contagious.
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AfDB, researchers launch $63 m initiative to lift Africans out of poverty
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and researchers have launched the US$63.24 million AfDB-funded initiative aimed to raise agricultural productivity and also lift millions of Africans out of poverty.
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Behind the Lens: The 2013 GSBN MBA Challenge Video Contest: For 2013, the contest is no longer just for MBAs
The winner of the 2012 Global Business School Network MBA Challenge Video Contest was a group from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College (USA). The MBA Challenge asked business school students: Can business education change the world? One of the winning team members, Jacqueline Stein (MBA ’13), shares the project that inspired their video.
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Announcing NextBillion Health Care: The new blog focuses on private and public solutions
Next week NextBillion.net will launch a new sub-blog, NextBillion Health Care, which will address the myriad challenges and solutions in delivering health care to the BoP. The blog will focus on the best practices of social enterprises, health practitioners, large health systems, NGOs and multinational players, such as drug companies, supply chain systems and technology developers. It will also focus on public policy solutions for improving health outcomes for low-income people.
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NexThought Monday: Training Half a Billion People for Good Jobs: How Governments and Vocational Efforts Are Leaving Out the BoP, How to Reform Them for Inclusion
Outdated curriculum and low-paid teachers mean many vocational institutions are simply unable to prepare the students for employability. In the past decade, however, a handful of institutions have been able to provide high quality vocational programs to the bottom of the pyramid.
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NexThought Monday: Higher Education Solutions Network and the (Potential) Power Specialization: USAID’s ambitious new program will link universities, science and development
On Friday, USAID announced the launch of a Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN) — an ambitious five-year partnership linking seven American and foreign universities to harness the insights of students and professors in science and technology to combat a variety of global health and development challenges.
To start, USAID is providing $26 million across the seven institutions, and could supply a total ceiling $130 million over the life of the program. The universities making up the HESN include: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of California – Berkeley, Michigan State University, Duke University, Texas A&M University, The College of William & Mary, and Makerere University in Uganda. The goal is to apply science and technology, as well as entrepreneurship, to define and solve key problems in areas such as global health, food security and chronic conflict. USAID said the network will consist of 22 additional funded, and 76 non-funded partners in the U.S. and overseas.- Categories
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The ‘Unconventional Collaborations’ PopTech Approach: How to turn ‘silos of excellence’ into a network
Leetha Filderman, president of PopTech, says most of the work of solving today’s most pressing challenges is carried out by specialists in specific domains, or “silos of excellence”. But this approach slows the spread of innovation from field to field, limits our awareness of what tools are even available, and throttles the pace of change. PopTech’s approach advocates a network that complements the silos.
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