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Karnani’s ’Fighting Poverty Together’ Advocates Eclectic Approaches
Aneel Karnani, perhaps one of the best-known skeptics of Base of the Pyramid approaches, corporate social responsibility and microcredit has a new book, Fighting Poverty Together. In it, Karnani levels familiar criticisms, but also provides many suggestions for how businesses, NGOs and governments should address poverty alleviation.
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Ashoka’s Drayton: Education and the Future Marketplace
Ashoka Founder Bill Drayton views the more than 2,700 Ashoka Fellows as a sensitive Geiger counter for detecting big economic and social shifts. He sees critical gaps in empathy, teamwork, leadership, and change-making being taught to young people. The "parts of the world that do not master these traits will be left in terrible shape," he says.
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NexThought Monday: 8 HR Innovation Strategies to Sustain, Grow Social Enterprises
It’s common knowledge that social enterprises perennially struggle with retaining talent, especially in middle management. It thus becomes critical for social enterprises to think creatively and try a variety of innovative tactics. Our research has identified eight effective strategies of several social enterprises to attract and retain talent.
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’Active Incubator Models’ and Management for Social Enterprises
The business model for the Asian Social Enterprise Incubator (ASEI), a Manila-based organization, is based on the assumption that what many social enterprises require is not necessarily access to office space and back-office services. Rather, they need a market-oriented management to direct the strategy and run the organization like a business.
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In Defense of High Standards: How to Improve the Performance of Brazilian Social Businesses
Despite a growing interest in social businesses in Brazil, the field still struggles to find and retain experienced managers to implement their business models successfully, creating a vicious circle of low performance. But if we can transform growing interest into results, Brazil could fulfill its promise as a great place to do (social) business.
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Peace Dividend’s P2P Model For Financing Entrepreneurs in Post-Conflict Sudan
Building on microfinance approaches to informal loan markets, Peace Dividend is charting a new course in post-conflict Southern Sudan. Founder Melody Atil says the model directly connects borrowers to lenders through peer-to-peer networks, making it more flexible and with greater potential to operate at a larger scale than donor-funded programs.
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NextThought Monday: Social Enterprise on the Cover of the Economist
No, not this week and probably not next week either. But in five years, it’s going to happen. The Economist, however, did recently run an article titled: "Companies Aren’t Charities," which argues that the role of a company in developing economies should be confined to pursuing profit while abiding by the rules and a solid moral compass.
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How to Build the Private Sector in Africa
In this wide-ranging interview - Christopher Fomunyoh, senior associate and regional director for Central and West Africa at the National Democratic Institute - outlines the role of governance in creating a transparent and competitive business environment across Africa.
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