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How Large NGOs Are Using Data to Transform Themselves

Harvard Business Review

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. A critical part was adapting a proven model in a related field: microfinance.

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President Obama Can Make Start-Up America Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Do we really want to beat India at developing clean tech, cheap medical devices, and affordable housing? I suggest that Obama announces now that Start-Up America will officially disband on December 31, 2015. We don't innovate in entrepreneurial finance enough in the U.S.: How about if, as nations, we win together?