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What Does Social Entrepreneurship Mean to Actor Adrian Grenier?
The Entourage actor talks entrepreneurship and his upcoming stint as a judge in a start-up pitch contest.
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Viewpoint: Why the Ivy League Needs the Hult Prize
How do we get Ivy League students interested in changing the world? Fluorescent pink posters with one simple message: "Do you want to win $1,000,000?"
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- Education
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Alibaba Rival JD.com Launches Crowdfunding Site for Startups in China
China’s largest e-commerce companies are eager to leverage their millions of users and hoards of data for new projects. For example, Alibaba’s other businesses include healthcare management, financial services, and cloud data. Now JD.com, its smaller but still formidable rival, is branching out into crowdfunding for startups.
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Crowdfunding Nearly Tripled Last Year, Becoming a $16 Billion Industry
If crowdfunding’s been hot for awhile, last year, it was damn near on fire.
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MCE Social Capital Reaches $100 Million in Loan Guarantees for Social Good
Launched in 2006, the nonprofit impact investing firm has used its innovative loan guarantee model to generate economic opportunities for nearly two million people living in poverty.
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Case Foundation, B Lab Team Up to Make Measuring Impact More Mainstream
The Case Foundation and B Lab recently announced a joint effort to encourage more businesses, especially those that aren’t triple-bottom line enterprises, to consider their social and environmental impact.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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Viewpoint: Why We Should Be Worried By the World Bank Shoveling $36 Billion to ‘Financial Intermediaries’
Everyone’s heard of the World Bank, but far fewer people know of its private sector arm, the International.
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The US Is Warming Up to China’s Big New Development Bank
Washington appears to have softened its stance towards the new Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, backing down from its earlier resistance and saying it is now ready to welcome the institution.
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