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Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The MBA of the Future [An Interview with UVM Dean Sanjay Sharma]
How do you scrap a traditional 38-year-old MBA program and replace it with an entirely new model that addresses 21st-century business challenges? That's the question faced by Dean Sanjay Sharma when he took over at the Grossman School of Business at the University of Vermont in Burlington. In this interview, he explains why sustainability and entrepreneurship are keys to the success of future leaders in business and institutions everywhere.
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A billion-dollar destination for Indian pharma exports
Latin America accounted for 7 percent of India’s global pharma exports of $15.3 billion in 2014-15.
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- Latin America
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Beer merger poses ‘major threat to global health’
Experts warn of 'disturbing' implications for epidemic of alcohol related harm in the developing world, particularly Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Global drug spending to hit $1.4 trillion in 2020
Global spending on medicines will reach $1.4 trillion in 2020, driven by increased healthcare access in emerging markets and high-priced new drugs for cancer and other diseases, according to a forecast by IMS Health.
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Wait, Did Facebook Just Build A Kickstarter Competitor?
Facebook’s on a quest to absorb the Internet, and now it looks like it could invade crowdfunding. Today the company released a new Fundraiser product that allows nonprofits to set up a campaign page, show off a video explaining their goal, collect cash, and let people share News Feed posts with buttons so their friends can instantly contribute without clicking to a new page. As is, Facebook’s Fundraising feature could compete with platforms like Crowdrise.
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Salt, Car Battery Bring Clean Water to the Developing World
Though it looks and operates more like a kid’s science-fair project than a solution to the global water crisis, a new device created through a partnership between an outdoor-equipment manufacturer and a nonprofit global-health organization could give remote communities around the world a simple, effective way to purify their water.
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Are e-Wallets Beginning to Worry Banks in India?
In the last week of October, Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma received a message from State Bank of India (SBI). It wasn’t good news. The message said the nation’s largest lender and its associate banks would no longer allow their customers to load money from their accounts onto the Paytm wallet.
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Kenyan m-Health Startup Miti Health Receives $100K
Kenyan startup Miti Health, which provides chemists with business management and supply chain software on the Android platform, has received a US$100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research ways of expanding the use of mobile tools among Kenyan private health providers.
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