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Social Capital Markets: Design in the Developing World
Jocelyn Wyatt leads the Design for Social Impact initiative at IDEO (a global design consultancy). Prior to IDEO, Jocelyn worked as an Acumen Fund fellow in Kenya and served as Interim Country Director for VisionSpring in India. Jocelyn has an MBA from Thunderbird and a BA in Anthropology from...
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Social Capital Markets: “Moving Beyond Wishful Thinking”
Katherine Fulton kicked off Day 2 of the Social Capital Markets Conference this morning. Her address focused on the complexities of this moment in history for the economy as a whole and for the social capital markets movement in particular. Ms. Fulton addressed the driving forces behind...
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Social Capital Markets Veterans Discuss Big Issues; Jed Emerson Avoids “Getting Kicked in the Nuts”
It?s Tuesday morning at Social Capital Markets, and I?m already feeling a bit overwhelmed.? But this panel is too good to miss - Matthew Bishop, Jed Emerson and David Chen, with Kevin Jones moderating.? You know that ? particularly with Bishop and Emerson ? you?re bound to hear...
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Social Capital Markets: Mike Lee on Money and Meaning
Guest blogger Mike Lee is a 2nd-year MBA student at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and leads the Net Impact chapter.? Prior to Haas, Mike worked as an evaluation consultant for NGOs and Foundations and also at Ashoka.? Mike is an alumnus of the Coro Fellows Program in Public...
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Social Capital Markets: David Auerbach on Market Creators
Guest blogger David Auerbach works on strategic growth projects for Endeavor, a global organization that supports high-impact entrepreneurs.? He is a 2003 graduate of Yale University.By David AuerbachThe “Market Creators” panel at SoCap08 provided an excellent primer in what...
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Social Capital Markets: “The Sector Still in A Rudimentary Stage”
Asad Mahmood, who leads Deutsche Bank’s social investing arm, took the stage for today’s keynote address at the Social Capital Markets conference. His intervention closed the formal sessions that took place during the first day of conference. I met Asad a couple of years back in...
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Social Capital Markets: Power to the People Through Democratic Capital
With three weeks to go before the U.S. presidential election, it?s no surprise that there?s a lot of interest in democracy here at the Social Capital Markets conference.? Fortunately, the conversation has (thus far) steered clear of moose burgers and the Weather Underground.? After all,...
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Social Capital Markets: Too Many People, Not Enough Seats
Not yet.? That was the first message I heard at Social Capital Markets today, as I approached the registration table; they weren?t ready for me yet.? In fact, they weren?t ready for me, nor were they ready for the 20 other people who had queued up early.? If there?s any indication of...
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