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Instilling soft skills in chauffeurs
In the travel industry, the bottom of the pyramid is the driver.” Ram Badrinathan, Founder & CEO, GlobalTHEN.
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How three of the best-performing socially conscious funds are investing
Socially responsible investing has long been associated with avoiding companies in "vice businesses" like alcohol, tobacco and weapons.
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What are the most promising Base of the Pyramid business models in Latin America?
Housing, education and banking, increasingly through mobile technology, are three of the fastest growing areas for private companies doing business with the Base of the Pyramid. Dozens of BoP business practitioners and experts will discuss their companies’ successful models at the Inter-American Development Bank’s II BASE Forum International set for June 6-7, 2013 in Medellin, Colombia.
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How To Be A Social Intrapreneur: Persistence, Resilience, and Patience
In working to turn her Brazilian bank into a financial resource for micro-entrepreneurs, Aparecida Teixeira de Morais has learned valuable lessons about changing a company from the inside.
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The hottest frontier
Strategies for putting money to work in a fast-growing continent.
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Acumen Fund announces first energy investment in Pakistan
Acumen, a pioneering non-profit global venture firm addressing poverty across Africa and in South Asia, on Monday announced its first investment in the growing rural energy sector of Pakistan.
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How to Plan when you don’t know what is going to happen? Redesigning aid for complex systems
They’re funny things, speaker tours. On the face of it, you go from venue to venue, churning out the same presentation – more wonk-n-roll than rock-n-roll. But you are also testing your arguments, adding slides where there are holes, deleting ones that don’t work.
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Cane Toads A Shoe-In for Social Impact
You may never have considered how online shopping for cane toads could have a positive social impact.
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