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Net Impact: Social Entrepreneurship at Work
Guest blogger Katherine Yue is a second-year MBA student at Thunderbird School of Global Management where she has assisted in research on business and capacity growth in microfinance and health microfranchises. She interned for FINCA Jordan in its founding year, strengthening business risk...
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World Challenge ’08: Deadline for Voting is Tomorrow, 11/21
Back in April I posted news about the World Challenge competition, hosted by BBC and Newsweek. Well, I just got an e-mail from a friend reminding?me about it so I went to the competition’s?website, only to find out that the final round is on and that votes for one of the...
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Net Impact: The Trade-Offs between Private Equity?s Returns and Development Impacts in Emerging Ma
Guest blogger Christi Huizenga is a second-year MBA student at Thunderbird School of Global Management.? Before Thunderbird, she spent five years in project management and business development for International Justice Mission, a human rights NGO.? Christi has a B.A. in Business...
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Net Impact: “Diarrhea Needs a Rockstar”
(Editor’s note: Today, November 19, is World Toilet Day, part of an awareness campaign led by Water Aid.?This post is timely to?stop for a second, think about and learn more a?crisis that?keeps 2.5 billion of the world’s poorest citizens away?from?basic sanitation services)Guest...
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Net Impact: Impact Measurement and the Importance of Asking the Right Questions
Guest blogger Miguel Jardine is a first-year MBA student at Thunderbird School of Global Management where he focuses on Green Capital Allocation.? At Thunderbird, he has further developed his ideas on Triple Bottom Line value propositions and the leadership role of business in igniting...
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Guest Post: Compassion, Empathy and the Growth of Social Business, An Inspiring Day at Santa Clara U
Guest blogger Karen Lynn Vincent, a serial social benefit entrepreneur, is the co-founder and current chief operating officer at Resdida, a hybrid social business distributing content via mobile devices to the rural poor. She also works with the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) in the...
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Tech Awards 2008: Silicon Valley Turns to Technologies that Benefit the World’s Poorest Citizens
I had the opportunity to attend the Tech Museum Awards ceremony last week in San Jose, California. ?What’s interesting about this annual event is not just the social entrepreneurs and their sometimes quite remarkable innovations, but also the way Silicon Valley turns out to honor them and,...
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Net Impact: Unreasonable People and The Role of Entrepreneurs in Shaping Tomorrow’s Markets
Last Saturday morning was gray, rainy and windy in Philadelphia, but it didn’t keep the Net Impact conference from building momentum. I began the day attending a session led by the Base of the Pyramid Protocol team. It was interesting to get a closer feel of this tool; a detailed wrap up of...
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