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America’s First Billion-Dollar Social Enterprise?
It's not just the fact that TOMS received an investment from Mitt Romney's Bain Capital that was so important - it's the fact that Bain's investment now values TOMS, a social enterprise, at $625 million dollars.
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Bain Capital Buys into Toms Shoes’ Social Enterprise Model
Toms is a well known socially responsible business, a shoe manufacturer that donates a pair of shoes to a needy child for every pair it sells. This business model has attracted an unusual investor: Bain Capital.
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PRESS RELEASE: Toniic Announces Support from Omidyar Network
San Francisco, USA and Mumbai, India (August 18, 2014) – Toniic – a global network of over 120 action-oriented impact investors – is pleased to announce the financial support of philanthropic investment firm Omidyar Network.
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It’s About Time, It’s Also About Culture: How do varying cultural perspectives about time and productivity impact social enterprises?
Andrea Trice is researching how “soft” factors such as mutual understanding and trust influence the success of a social enterprise. While it’s too early to draw conclusions, Trice notes that it’s difficult to overestimate the role of culture in shaping how each of us thinks and acts, and therefore how businesses succeed or fail.
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- Agriculture, Education, Social Enterprise
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In Tehran, a Taxi’s Metamorphosis Is Kafkaesque
The husband-and-wife team of Mehdi Yazdany and Sarvenaz Heraner were cruising the streets of Iran's sprawling capital in search of targets.
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- North Africa & Near East
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Cambodia’s Orphan Business
People & Power goes undercover to reveal how 'voluntourism' could be fuelling the exploitation of Cambodian children.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Stopping Disease With A Simple Innovation: New Floors
A Stanford University student re-invents an ancient earthen material--adobe--to work well in a country where dirt floors can cause death.
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Zimbabwe: Telecoms Firms Embrace Innovation to Survive
AS technological convergence redefines business models across nearly every industry, mobile telecommunications companies have shown a growing appetite for innovation in order to survive and thrive in a fast-paced and unpredictable environment.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa