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Imagination with Realism: What Works for Microfinance
Microfinance, in its for-profit avatar, is attracting capital, talent, blogposts - you name it - and a fair bit of criticism. So when Alex Counts, President & CEO of the Grameen Foundation proposed his vision for Reimagining Microfinance in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, he targeted...
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Lapdesk, Part II: An Interview with Shane Immelman
Welcome to part II of the ?Endeavor? series. You may recall that part I involved a rather interesting conversation with Dan Isenberg, a Harvard Business School professor who had written a case about Endeavor entrepreneur, Lapdesk. Given that dialogue, it seemed only natural to continue...
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News Roundup: Investments in People, Philanthrocapitalism and the SSIR
A spate of blogworthy mainstream media articles have come out recently, prompting this base of the pyramid news roundup: Over the weekend, the Financial Times ran two pieces side by side.? The first, entitled ’Investing in People’ by journalist Sarah Murray, smartly discusses the...
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Food Price Inflation and the BoP
Most of NextBillion’s visitors have heard about the current jump in food prices. These higher prices have already triggered responses locally in the form of riots in countries such as Haiti, Egypt and Bangladesh. The OECD and FAO have recently issued a report predicting that food prices...
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Talent Retention in the Fast Changing Development Sector
If you are a manager at a NextBillion enterprise, pause and ask yourself:What attracted you to development through enterprise?What attracts members of your team to this sector?It’s interesting to see how employees bring diverse motivations. Understanding what drives them is key to retaining...
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Do You Have To Be Rich To Be Green?
Guest blogger Tracy Smith is a communications officer for E+Co, an organization which empowers local SMEs that supply clean and affordable energy in developing countries. Tracy has an undergraduate degree in economics and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. By Tracy...
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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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