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Harvard Business School Names ’11 Social Entrepreneurship Fellow
Media-Newswire.com) - BOSTON-Harvard Business School has awarded the 2011 Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship to Rakhi Mehra ( MBA 2009 ). Mehra was selected for her work in co-founding micro Home Solutions ( mHS ), a social initiative for developing sustainable housing solutions for the urban poor. Her achievement was recognized at this year’s HBS Business Plan Contest, where teams of student entrepreneurs compete to win cash and in-kind services. The HBS Social Entrepreneurshi...
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African Economies ’Must Go Global’
By Justine Gerardy (AFP) CAPE TOWN - Africa must accelerate links to global markets and improve competitiveness to sustain the strong growth expected this year, experts at the World Economic Forum on Africa said on Wednesday. African economies weathered the global economic storm in 2008 and have since resumed strong growth -- a positive showing which paradoxically highlighted Africa’s weak presence in global financial markets, said Jennifer Blake, head of WEF’s compe...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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State Department Is Trying To Make A Thousand Ushahidis Bloom
When the earthquake decimated Haiti last year, technologists around the world converged online to develop tools to help rescuers find victims and raise funds . Now the State Departme...
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Christian Sarkar, Co-founder, $300 House Project
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A Look at Three Models of Philanthro-Capitalism
A market based approach to philanthropy, with one eye firmly on the bottom line, can be an effective way for entrepreneurs to meet their social goals. take a close look at three such models of philanthro-capitalism. ...
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- South Asia
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Sachet King Moves to Shed Regional Tag
Chinni Krishnan Ranganathan is best known for selling shampoo in 50-paise sachets in the seventies - almost a decade before multinational competitors such as Unilever and Procter & Gamble woke up to the huge potential in India’s bottom of the pyramid market. But CavinKare’s Chairman and Managing Director has many others firsts to his credit, enhancing his reputation as somebody who is super-fast in spotting new opportunities. So when sachet became commoditised, Ranganathan t...
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- South Asia
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How to Become a Social Entrepreneur
Many of us feel the need to serve a greater good in life, but turning a passion into a successful nonprofit takes serious business acumen. By Lou Dubois Scott Harrison was 28 years old, sitting on a beach in Uruguay with a model girlfriend, a ...
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A Fresh Look at Fighting Global Poverty
By DAVID LEONHARDT Dean Karlan , a Yale economist, and Jacob Appel, a former field researcher in West Africa, are ...