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New Social Venture Creation Course at the University of Michigan
The new UofM Social Venture Creation Course seeks to be an innovative, action-based learning laboratory that brings students (both undergrads and grads) across disciplines to work on solving society?s challenges ? together.
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Weekly Round-Up: Financial Services Friday
Here are stories that caught my eye this week, an event coming up in San Francisco, and an opportunity for bloggers writing at the intersection of technology and poverty.
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Tatas Going Global with Low-Cost Housing
Kochi, Nov. 5 The Tatas are giving a global perspective to their successful affordable housing model, which was launched in Mumbai. Mr Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Sons, said that Tata Housing has got enquiries for replicating the Mumbai housing model from other countries and is likely to start out from Maldives. Enquiries have come from various other States and the affordable housing model would soon be extended to Kolkata, Bangalore and Assam. He said there exists tremendo...
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Base of the Pyramid Career Paths: What Would You Ask?
Are you interested in getting involved in social enterprise? In finding a job and build a career around it? Perhaps even starting a venture of your own or join one that is in early stage? If your answer to any of the above was yes, you’d probably be interested in knowing how you can best prepare yourself for it.
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CK Prahalad Releases Two New Case Studies
According to Thinkers 50, a biennial ranking of business gurus, C.K. Prahalad is the most influential management thinker in the world. This is the second straight time that Prahalad has topped the list. Now C.K. Prahalad has released two new BoP case studies: Jaipur Rugs and Bharti Airtel.
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Innovative Approaches to Access: NGOs Explore Opportunities in Water
Almost half the developing world’s population - 2.5 billion people - lack improved sanitation facilities, and over 884 million people still lack access to safe drinking water. The Clean Water Roundtable was recently held at the Haas School of Business, at University of California Berkeley to explore sustainable solutions to clean drinking water.
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BRAC?s TUP Program: When Base of the Pyramid Approaches Might Not Work
BRAC, a Bangladesh-based NGO, is just giving stuff away to the poor. One of the world’s largest and most innovative poverty alleviation organizations has decided that aid, and not profit, is the way forward to help the very poorest. As an intern this past summer at BRAC, I was told this in our orientation...
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Ashoka Launches Innovative E Health Points in Rural India
I just got an email from our friends at Ashoka announcing the launch, just two days ago, of a venture that promises to disrupt and transform rural healthcare in India: The E Health Points, a joint venture led by Ashoka, the Naandi Foundation, the Government of the State of Punjab and and Healthpoint Services India Pvt. Ltd.
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