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“Fixing Failed States” and “Enlightened Self Interest”
A dear friend recently brought up an interesting point when commenting a book we had both read about Afghanistan. She pointed out to me, with some disappointment, a passage that read “the reconstruction of this country has more to do with the fear of the west than with solidarity to our...
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Guest Post: Radical, Transformative, Unreasonable, Extreme, Leap Frog, Super-Bad Social Entrepreneur
Guest blogger Paul Hudnut is an entrepreneur, advisor and teacher. He helped start EnviroFit International, and teaches at Colorado State University. Hudnut writes a blog, What’s a BOPreneur?, where this post first appeared. By Paul Hudnut Allen Hammond recently hosted a blog...
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Being Green at the Base of the Pyramid – It Just Makes Sense
Are people at the base of the economic pyramid more “green” than those at the top of the pyramid? There is an ongoing debate about this - and one of the key assertions made by those who answer “yes” to that question is that the BoP are better conservationists. Karen pointed...
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Al Hammond to Join Ashoka’s Leadership Group
Since joining the World Resources Institute in 1990, Al Hammond has been mixing things up.? Against steep odds, he built the World Resources Report into a best-in-class publication featuring extensive datasets of environmental indicators ? putting it on par with the World Bank’s World...
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Announcement: Unitus Entrepreneur in Residence Program
What: Unitus is seeking highly motivated social entrepreneurs to participate in the Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) program for 2008. EIRs at Unitus spend up to one year launching their venture with the deep support of a dynamic community of socially-commited business professionals with...
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Trust, Mobile Banking, and Urban-Rural Remittances
During a recent workshop at the M-banking conference in Cairo, Egypt, a number of practitioners and interested parties discussed the state of mobile banking or-more properly-mobile transactions. One of the interesting insights that emerged comes from the experience of the Vodafone company...
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Can a Hospital Be a Breakthrough Innovation?
Guest blogger Sasha Dichter is Director of Business Development at Acumen Fund. Before joining Acumen, Dichter held senior positions in the corporate citizenship departments of GE Money and IBM. He earned a B.A., M.A., and M.B.A., all from Harvard University.By Sasha DichterLifeSpring’s...
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World Business and Development Awards Launched
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) have opened nominations for the 2008 World Business and Development Awards in support of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The awards...
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