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Unreasonable Institute Finalists Emerge
The 2011 Unreasonable Institute, an intensive six-week mentorship program that seeks to accelerate budding ventures serving the base of the pyramid consumers, fielded applications from 300 entrepreneurs who hoped to attend. The first test was competing with other applicants to raise $8,000 in tuition fees, while rallying support for their mission.
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Leading the Next Wave of Corporate BoP Engagement
Most multinational corporations (MNCs) just don’t find the social business at the BoP niche attractive yet - or at least not enough to hire a large consultancy to come figure out how to make it work for them. Those successful in developing financially viable solutions to social issues within a large organization are known as social intrapreneurs.
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Reinvent Maternal Health: It’s a Challenge
ABC News, The Lemelson Foundation, and Duke Global Health Institute recently teamed up to launch the Reinventing Maternal Health challenge. Targeted to university students, this challenge seeks to find the most innovative, impactful idea that will prevent thousands of women from dying in childbirth across the globe.
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Africa Election Watch 2011: Benin Growing Pains for a Young Democracy
A day after the election in volatile Niger (where Seini Oumarou has emerged the winner) came the presidential election in one of the "star" democracies on the African continent. On March 13, the West African nation Benin went to the polls to continue a democracy born of dictatorship two decades ago. As the votes are counted, a look at the stakes.
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Africa Election Watch 2011: Niger
One of the biggest determinants of living standards for those at the base of the pyramid too often receives scant attention in the Western press: a presidential election. In 2011, 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa will hold presidential elections. The next presidential election in Africa will take place in Niger, on March 12.
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NextThought: Quick Reflections from Harvard’s Social Enterprise Conference
The students of Harvard met and exceeded expectations at their annual Social Enterprise Conference through a healthy mix of panel discussions, hands-on workshops and a student-driven entrepreneurial spirit that was palpable in every hallway.
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The Healthcare Infrastructure Conundrum
The new clinic is opening today. The town council, mayor, and other bureaucrats have been summoned. The company promoting the new chain of rural health clinics has sent its CEO, and its board chair, who has come from thousands of miles away in the west. The garlands have been prepared; chairs and a tent have been set up. This is progress.
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Advancing Healthcare With the BoP Series: Dial 104 for Health
A housewife in rural Andhra Pradesh, India has persistent lower back pain. Like 86 percent of other villages in AP, hers lies more than 3 km from the nearest hospital. Before 2007, she would, like most rural residents, be resigned to seeing a local, untrained doctor when her pain worsened. Today, she simply dials 104 from her mobile phone.
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