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NextThought (Tuesday): Meeting Customers in the Middle and Other HBR Insights
This month’s Harvard Business Review ambitiously re-calibrates the dialogue on corporate social responsibility and the true meaning of shared value in rebuilding capitalism?s sullied reputation following the financial crisis. The HBR authors also implore established companies to "take a page from startups" by treating each emerging market as new.
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Best Idea(s) of 2010 from the MENA region
It is not easy to pinpoint what made the biggest impression on me this past year... The MENA region has seen several major and exciting events in the development through enterprise arena.
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- Social Enterprise
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NextThought Monday: Social Enterprise on the Cover of the Economist
No, not this week and probably not next week either. But in five years, it’s going to happen. The Economist, however, did recently run an article titled: "Companies Aren’t Charities," which argues that the role of a company in developing economies should be confined to pursuing profit while abiding by the rules and a solid moral compass.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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A New Generation of Leaders: The Acumen Fund Fellowship
How would you like to spend one year working with a company focused on serving the poor in a developing country, either helping to set a strategy or improve operations? Then now is the time to apply for the Acumen Fund Fellowship.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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NextThought Monday: Trading on the Social Entrepreneur Asset Class Idea
Creating an asset class for social entrepreneurship not only engenders an aura of solid ground for investors, both institutional and private, it could formally connect social entrepreneurs with a far wider scope of capital markets. Though not necessarily a new idea, it would seem many minds are acquiescing around the concept.
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- Social Enterprise
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Connecting the Dots through Social Impact Measurement
Last week, the 2010 Social Enterprise Conference at Columbia Business School presented a panel called Connecting the Dots through Social Impact Measurement, joining the ongoing conversation that has surfaced in recent conferences such as SOCAP10 and ANDE.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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The “Gandhi Approach” to Better Governance
Microcredit, formal and informal loans from friends or family can get a social enterprise only so far. Larger equity investments can help a micro-enterprises over the hump and into real SME scale. This article summarizes some governance principles indispensable at this stage.
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- Social Enterprise
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Acara Challenge 2010: Eight Social Business Ideas
From clean water delivery near Vellore to chromium recovery in the tanneries of Tamil Nadu to clean-gas cooked food tiffin services in Delhi, the finalist teams of the Acara Challenge 2010 have some great ideas to change the world.
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
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- clean cooking
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