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The Case Against Socially Responsible Business
Last week, a constellation of corporate heavyweights and other worthies came out to launch the B Team, a coalition devoted to changing how companies do business. In the team's new "Plan B," people and the planet receive equal primacy with profits. That sort of triple-bottom-line thinking might work for some companies, but to abandon the pure for-profit model altogether would be a huge mistake.
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Match Return Expectations to the Market You’re Serving: (With video) Omidyar Network shares lessons learned from the impact Investing field (Pt 2)
There is a considerable split in the impact investing world between so-called ‘returns first’ investors and ‘impact first’ investors, who disagree on whether it’s ever necessary to expect returns that are below market rate.
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NexThought Monday: Addressing Problems First, Structure Second : (With video) Omidyar Network shares lessons learned from the impact Investing field (Pt 1)
There are lots of ways to do impact investing: Within a foundation, through your family office, through a stand-alone fund, or through a hybrid structure. At Omidyar Network, we’ve learned it’s important to first examine the problem you are trying to solve—and what kind of talent, legal and financial resources you need to solve it—before creating an organizational structure to execute on the vision.
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Yourstory Buys Social Entrepreneurship Platform – ThinkChange India
YourStory.in, the media platform covering startups and early stage deals, has acquired social enterprise platform ThinkChange India.
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Women Deliver Conference 2013: A holistic approach to reaching scale
For the social enterprise field, there are critical insights to be gleaned from the international development space as well. Interventions focused on the “whole girl,” or supporting every piece of her life (health, education, legal rights, community awareness), seem to work better than interventions only focused on one isolated need area. Interestingly, most of the winning social enterprises at of the Social Enterprise Challenge at the Women Deliver Conference aligned with this thinking, largely not being product- or invention- based, but rather taking more holistic approaches.
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You’re on the A-List to Join The B Team: Your invitation to the June 13 event is here
In October 2012, former Puma CEO Jochen Zeitz and Sir Richard Branson launched The B Team “to shift the focus of business from just financial gains towards environmental and social gains as well. ... Plan A—where companies have been driven by the profit motive alone—is no longer acceptable." On Thursday, you’re invited to join them as they shape the agenda.
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Global Movement of the Vulnerable Class, and What it Means for Financial Inclusion
In 2010, the bottom 40 percent of the populations, in low and middle-income economies constituted a market of $3 trillion. By the end of the decade, the real spending power of this market will nearly double, to $5.8 trillion. A new report from the Center for Financial Inclusion, "Growing Income, Growing Inclusion,” charts an encouraging course.
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Understanding What Makes Impact Accelerators … Accelerate : New ANDE/Village Capital report
Over the past year, Village Capital and the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) have been working together to learn what’s working. We have surveyed more than 50 self-identified “impact accelerators” — ventures looking to provide education, training, capital, and assistance to early-stage impact enterprises, and this week, we’re releasing what we’re learning.
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