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Talent Challenges for Social Ventures: Skill vs. Will
Talent management is arguably the greatest challenge today for social ventures trying to scale-up in their overall impact.? I recently spoke with Deepti Doshi, Talent Manager at Acumen Fund on the subject and she commented, “We have realized that recruiting and retaining quality local...
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Changemakers’ Banking on Social Change Competition: Deadline for New Entrants Next 9/30
"Open sourcing social solutions". I loved it since I first heard of it about 18 months ago while I was booking tickets, packing bags and spending long hours understanding “who was who” in this fascinating and rapidly changing base of the pyramid space. I learned about it...
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Nachiket Mor: Revolutionizing Financial Services in Rural India
Want to lull me to sleep?? First, start your event at 6:30 and go until 8:00 in the evening; I get to work early, so I’m often exhausted by the end of the day.? Second, draw the blinds to keep out natural light; exacerbate the soporific effect by dimming the lights (so I can see the...
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Keeping the Magic Alive at Lapdesk: An Interview with Greg Durst, Managing Director of Endeavor Sout
After a longer-than-anticipated delay, I am pleased to bring you the third installment in the series of interviews about Lapdesk, an Endeavor company based in South Africa that provides portable desks to school children who need them, all 4.2 million to be exact. If you’ll recall, I had a...
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Social Entrepreneurs from GSBI 2008: Meet Neelam Chhiber, from Industree Crafts
The goal: Create economic opportunity for Indian villagers so they can build sustainable livelihoods in their local settings, preserve their traditions and avoid the need to migrate to large urban centers. The means: Industree, a social enterprise that promotes locally owned and operated craft...
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Beyond ?Basic Needs? Business Strategies
In my previous post about Anand Jaiswal?s article, Erik Simanis left a comment adding one more critique to the approach to BoP markets from a producer/consumer framework. In this critique he refers to ?Beyond Basic Needs Business Strategies?, an article he recently co-authored with Stuart...
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This Might Just Be Your BoP Dream Job
Jocelyn Wyatt was.? So were David Lehr and Keely Stevenson.? John Tucker is.? Joel Montgomery is about to be.? Pablo Halkyard might have been; in fact, I might have been also. What the heck am I talking about?? The Acumen Fund Fellows Program, of course. (For the record, Pablo took...
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A Classic Base of the Pyramid Business
The product is something people everywhere need, but is often costly or ? for more than a billion people worldwide ? simply unavailable. It has to be produced locally on a daily basis. And the market price, in rural India, is less than $20 per household per year. An impossible business? I...
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