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Social Capital Markets: Charlene Chen on “Innovative Ways to Invest”
Guest blogger Charlene Chen is a 2nd-year MBA at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, with a focus on international development through ICT and social entrepreneurship. She spent this past summer working in SME development at an internet services provider in Ghana. Prior to Haas, she...
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Social Capital Markets: Roxanne Miller on “Beyond Microfinance”
Guest blogger Roxanne Miller is a 2nd-year MBA student at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, focusing her studies on the intersection of international development, social enterprise and technology.? She spent this past summer interning at Unitus and working on an ICTD health care...
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Social Capital Markets: Pathological Collaboration
I absolutely love that phrase.? I heard it at the Social Capital Markets 2008 conference this week in beautiful San Francisco, said by William Foote, Founder and President of Root Capital, on a panel I didn’t attend but heard about later.? The phrase perfectly epitomizes the mood and...
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Social Capital Markets: “We Are Jealous of Microfinance…”
... said Christine Eibs Singer from E+Co, referring to the way that industry has been able to achieve the “investment class status", raise millions in capital and at the same time operate under common standards under the leadership of organizations like CGAP. The need for such a...
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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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