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GlaxoSmithKline opens door on data in bid to aid discovery of medicines
British drugs company releases findings of clinical trials and announces new effort to find tropical disease cures
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Social Enterprise – ImpactAssets50 provides view of growing impact investing landscape
SAN FRANCISCO (TrustLaw) - A database of fund managers who invest for maximum social, environmental and financial impact shows that assets under management grew 15 percent compared to last year to $10.2 billion.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Meet A Playboy Entrepreneur Who Went From Making Millions To Making an Impact
Kitwe, a dusty industrial city in North Western Zambia’s ‘Copper Belt’ region, isn’t much to look at. It does however have a hidden jewel. The city is home to the office of internationally acclaimed social entrepreneur, Peter Sinkamba.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Scaling from Small to Large: Endeavor Insight’s Research Reveals How Entrepreneurs are Integral to Solving the Job Crisis
NEW YORK, Sep 25, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Entrepreneurship is increasingly viewed as a key solution to chronic unemployment, but when it comes to job creation, not all entrepreneurs are equal. According to a new report and interactive online tool released by Endeavor Insight, high-growth small and medium size enterprises that scale into large businesses have significant potential to drive sustained job creation and employment, especially in emerging markets. Endeavor Insight partnered with Omidyar Network and Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) to commission and release the report.
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- employment, research, scale
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Social enterprise should be made central to higher education strategy
When I went to university in the late 1970s, fewer than 20% of school leavers when on to higher education. Some degrees were clearly vocational (medicine perhaps the most obvious example), but most were not. My module on the Comparative Government of Indonesia and Nigeria has not, I'm afraid to say, been of direct relevance to me in the world of work.
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Get an MBA, Save the World
If you want to work in international development, go work for a big, bad multinational company.
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- Education
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‘Citi and SEDC Working for Capacity Building’
Citi Pakistan and the Social Enterprise Development Centre (SEDC) at LUMS are collaborating on a capacity building project, supported by $50,000 grant from Citi Foundation.
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- Education
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- South Asia
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Microplanet Technologies Names Daryl Skoog, Former Head of Opportunity International MIS, as Executive Director
MicroPlanet brings together a world-class team of technology professionals to support microfinance sector
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- Press Release
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- Education, Technology
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- microfinance
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Roughly 1.8 billion people menstruate. 300 million+ people are menstruating on any given day. So why is there so… https://t.co/yBbthfRqYh (link opens in a new window)
