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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, J.P Morgan projected up to $1T in investment would be deployed this decade — which would make impact investing twice the size of official development aid to the world’s less develop countries (as defined by the United Nations) , presuming historic levels of aid stayed constant since 2010.

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing. We will pursue a global channel strategy after we complete our I18N project. In the interim we might also look at piloting an Affiliate Marketing Strategy.

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation. While there has not been a defining exit in clean energy akin to the "Netscape moment" for the internet, there have been numerous recent IPOs in the biofuels sector.

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VW’s Board Needed More Outsiders

Harvard Business Review

In managing the fallout from BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster in 2010, company Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg had to take over from CEO Tony Hayward, whose gaffes and public blaming of partners had only exacerbated the crisis. Take the case of BP. Hayward’s leadership had contributed to BP underplaying safety its U.S.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The diverging fortunes of two recent spin-offs in the energy industry illustrate how financial markets value autonomy from the parent.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Three thousand years ago the Phoenicians in Tyre were as globally entrepreneurial as the startupists are today in nearby Tel-Aviv. For example, it is nearly impossible for scaling ventures in many countries, including Brazil and Denmark, to count on an IPO for a successful exit. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

If you think about how new products and services are hatched and brought to market today, it isn't usually the doing of just one entity — least of all the corporate R&D labs that once served as our engines of tomorrow. FailCon 2010 took place on October 25th in San Francisco. First, why is it a sector? You get this.