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Does Your City Have What it Takes? : Sandbox Network launches expansion campaign

Founded in 2009 by entrepreneurs from Switzerland and Germany — including current CEO Nico Luchsinger — Sandbox presently has more than 800 members in 25 hubs spanning four continents. Now the New York City-based network is looking for cities around the world eager to become part of a global entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Social Enterprise

Cracking the Code on Affordable Health Care – Part 2: An Interview With Dr. Devi Shetty, Founder of Narayana Hrudayalaya

Devi Shetty is one of the world’s most celebrated surgeons, and the founder of Narayana Hrudayalaya, one of India’s largest hospital chains.
He has pioneered a radically affordable (and profitable) health care model for heart surgeries and other care. In part 2 of our Q&A with Dr. Shetty, we discuss Narayana Hrudayalaya’s innovative use of technology, and its ambitious plans for the future.

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Health Care, Social Enterprise

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Cracking the Code on Affordable Health Care – Part 1: An Interview With Dr. Devi Shetty, Founder of Narayana Hrudayalaya

Devi Shetty is one of the world’s most celebrated surgeons. His patients have included Mother Teresa, and his list of accomplishments is the stuff of legend. But Dr. Shetty’s biggest legacy may be his work in pioneering a radically affordable health care model through Narayana Hrudayalaya, one of India’s largest hospital chains. In part 1 of this Q&A, he lays out the advantages (and sacrifices) of this model.

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Accelerating What Works to Fix What Doesn’t: How the IPIHD’s free programs can help health care innovators

People are fundamentally wired to focus on what is broken. But when addressing ineffective health care systems, it often makes sense to ask what IS working and how it can be replicated. In that spirit, the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery is seeking health care innovators to join its network and make use of its free programs.

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Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise

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Where Does Innovation Meet Scale?: Leveraging cross-sector collaborations to expand impact

How can the innovation of the social enterprise sector meet the scale of the World Bank, USAID, the United Nations, or emerging market governments? This collision has the potential to create new systems, shatter old ones, and ultimately make us more effective and efficient at delivering products and services to the poor. Blair Miller explores some promising cross-sector collaborations - and the opportunities they signify for social enterprise.

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Health Care, Social Enterprise

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Tapping New Ideas in Social Entrepreneurship: Yes, they exist

Social enterprise as a discipline and practice is so new that many aspiring entrepreneurs don’t know where to begin. They can now find their way thanks to a new guide stocked with advice from the field. “Breaking the Binary: Policy Guide to Scaling Social Innovation,” recently published by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, is a how-to on innovation geared toward social entrepreneurs and policymakers looking to improve their organizations.

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Education, Social Enterprise

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Social Enterprise Through a Wide Angle Lens : G20 Inclusive Business Workshop Asia focuses on benefits beyond income

Following the annual G20 Summit in Mexico last June, the G20 Challenge was created to celebrate some of the world’s most accomplished social entrepreneurs. Moreover, in order to showcase the winners and share lessons learned at a local level, it began its Regional Inclusive Business Workshops, which bring together select groups of social entrepreneurs, ecosystem builders, policy makers, and academics to discuss salient challenges and innovative ways to surmount them.

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Health Care, Social Enterprise

Sankalp Unconvention Summit 2013: The Global Hotspot for Innovation

Though the ecosystem is fairly developed in India, with innumerable incubators, investors, and facilitators, it is the entrepreneurs who continue to push the boundaries of innovation in India, capitalizing on the country’s rapid growth and optimism, and fighting head-on with the harsh realities of rural distribution, need-finding and scaling in a country where consumer tastes change every 100 kilometers, and institutional bureaucracy and corruption.

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Social Enterprise