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How Important is Scaling Up? Debate from TBLI
WorldChanging’s Nicole Anne Boyer was able to attend the 7th Triple Bottom Line Investment (TBLI) conference in Frankfurt a few weeks back. Her thorough reporting from the event is a must-read for folks interested in socially responsible investment and its associated spin-offs (including...
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Next Generation of Business Leaders ?Bridge the Gap?: 2005 Net Impact Conference
This year?s Net Impact Conference, held at Stanford?s Graduate School of Business was by all accounts a huge success. Here are some quick stats: ? Over 1,400 participants from schools across the U.S. and internationally? Over 200 speakers on approximately 75 panels? 6...
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Healthcare Delivery: Insurance and Finance
This post is part of my continuing series about financially sustainable models that provide healthcare to the poor.In developing countries, there is a strong correlation between access to finance and access to healthcare. Getting the poor to bank, and bank profitably, could push rural...
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Microfinance Sells Out? and Investors are Buying!
Has microfinance finally gone mainstream? The fact that the Economist devoted 10-pages to a survey of the industry this month convinces me that maybe it has. Through seven different pieces, the magazine provides both a good history of efforts made over the past three decades to bank the...
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Healthcare Delivery: Consumer Products for Disease Protection – Part II
As I discussed in Tuesday?s post, there are an increasing number of businesses producing health-improving consumer products that are affordable to customers at the base of the pyramid. Today, I will highlight a few more examples, including specialized food items meant to improve nutrition,...
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Healthcare Delivery at the BOP: The HealthStore Interview
In conjunction with NextBillion.net?s series on Healthcare Delivery at the BOP, Rob Katz recently spoke to Michelle Fertig and Herc Tzaras, authors of the forthcoming What Works case study: ?Franchising Healthcare for Kenya: The HealthStore Model.?Michelle Fertig and Herc Tzaras will...
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Research Competition: The Private Path to Prosperity
The International Finance Corporation and the Financial Times are sponsoring a research paper competition for 2005-2006. Top prize is US $30,000; all told, $90,000 will be awarded. Your 4,000 word (max) research paper should “add to the global discussion on private sector development...
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Cap it off with the right MBA program
OK, so you want to change the world ? from the inside. Not a bad idea, considering that some corporations? annual gross revenues are larger than the yearly GDPs of most developing countries. With that kind of cash, business can make a difference ? hey, you?re reading NextBillion.net,...
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