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Ashoka’s Drayton: Education and the Future Marketplace
Ashoka Founder Bill Drayton views the more than 2,700 Ashoka Fellows as a sensitive Geiger counter for detecting big economic and social shifts. He sees critical gaps in empathy, teamwork, leadership, and change-making being taught to young people. The "parts of the world that do not master these traits will be left in terrible shape," he says.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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An Insider’s Look at the NextBillion 2011 Case Writing Competition
Exploring the business case studies that impressed the judges in the NextBillion 2011 Case Writing Competition. Each of the winning case studies challenges students, educators, and practitioners to think through and tackle the most relevant questions facing the social enterprise world today.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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Winners Announced for the NextBillion 2011 Case Writing Competition
We are pleased to announce the winners of the NextBillion 2011 Case Writing Competition, which was co-sponsored by the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, Acumen Fund, and Ashoka. We received many high-quality cases this year, so it was a difficult decision for our valued judging panel.
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- Education
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A New NextBillion in the Works
Earlier this month, we announced several changes to NextBillion’s staff, including new writers and new editor roles. Today, I wanted to let you know about a couple more changes to the physical appearance of the NextBillion network, present and future. We hope to hear from you. What features would you like to see in the next, NextBillion?
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- Education
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NexThought Monday: 8 HR Innovation Strategies to Sustain, Grow Social Enterprises
It’s common knowledge that social enterprises perennially struggle with retaining talent, especially in middle management. It thus becomes critical for social enterprises to think creatively and try a variety of innovative tactics. Our research has identified eight effective strategies of several social enterprises to attract and retain talent.
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- Education
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(With Video) Chronicling the ’Spark’ of Libera
Africa Interactive, is a social venture that works with a network of 2,000 local media professionals throughout Africa and produces content for a variety organizations across the continent. In the last year we produced a series of videos, called Spark Africa, dedicated to sustainable developments, innovative projects and entrepreneurship.
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- Education, Environment
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Pipeline Fund Fellowship: Inspiring Colombian Women to Invest
Investing in women is "smart economics," according to a 2006 World Bank report and Natalia Oberti Noguera is doing just that. Through her new for-profit venture, The Pipeline Fund Fellowship, she’s diversifying the investor pool by training women philanthropists to become angel investors to help create capital for women entrepreneurs.
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- Education
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- impact investing
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New NB Roles for Lall and Kendall, the Best of April ’Deviants’ and All
We recently announced several changes to the NextBillion team. In fact, with Francisco Noguera moving to the role of staff writer and a host of new scribes joining, there was too much news for one post. I’d like to take a few graphs to make a few more editorial announcements. Plus - the top-read NB posts for April. Was there wisdom in the crowds?
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- Education