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Enablis, ILO, unveil business competition
The Enablis Entrepreneurial Network East Africa and International Labour Organisation (ILO) on Thursday launched the 2012 annual business plan competition aimed at identifying and growing emerging and existing entrepreneurs.
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Global co-op leader: Co-ops should be fastest growing business model by 2020
The leader of the global co-operative movement today outlined an ambitious vision for making co-operatives the fastest growing business model by the end of the decade.
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Voices from ANDE 2012: Building a Stronger Ecosystem
At the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs Conference last month, a good deal of focus was placed on developing the ecosystem to help social entrepreneurs connect with investors, business infrastructure and one another. One ANDE session took a close look at early stage incubation services, and the role they play in helping small and growing businesses, helping them to shape their business models along the way. Afterwards, I had a chance to meet with three leaders in this arena who are focused on social business development in India and Southeast Asia.
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Reasonably Big Changes at the Unreasonable Insitute : Disruption is our business, which is why we’re shaking things up
Unreasonable’s aim is to positively impact billions of lives, not thousands. To do this, we need to scale and then scale some more, we need to make sure we continuously improve as an organization to provide the best possible blueprint for the program to be reproduced all over the world. So for the 2013 institute we are working to deepen the quality of our program for those who participate and we’re making a few changes:
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NexThought Monday: (With Video) Moving Out of Orbit : Investment in emerging market small businesses is growing, like private space travel, it’s still early days
This is my third trip to the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs’ conference. The shift that I’ve noticed is the steady move from interest to excitement to action, at least on the part of big investors to finance small and growing business. I had a chance to talk with ANDE Executive Director Randall Kempner.
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Accenture and VSO Give Entrepreneurship Award to Shoemaker from Sierra Leone
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2012-- Accenture and VSO today announced that Umaro Kargo, a shoemaker from Makeni, Sierra Leone, is the winner of the Making Markets Work for the Poor: Entrepreneurship Award.
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Why is it So Difficult to Align Strategy for Social Impact?: Columbia Business School’s 2012 Social Enterprise Conference is Tackling the Question
Columbia Business School’s 2012 Social Enterprise Conference is asking how we can re-frame a rather narrow definition of strategy, and build collaboration within and across sectors to tackle major social and environmental issues.
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Uniting David and Goliath : Why Multinational Companies Like Starbucks Need SMEs to Build Green Supply Chains
Globally, demand for sustainably-sourced products continues to grow at a staggering pace. Last year alone, consumers spent $6.6 billion on fair trade products. Companies from Mars to Wal-Mart to Unilever are responding to this demand by making pledges to source all, or some portions of, their inputs from more sustainable sources.
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