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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact

Harvard Business Review

That year, two global headlines raised the profile of social enterprise: Mohammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace prize. Civic Ventures had recently released its first survey of baby boomers and found at least half were interested in “ encore careers ” helping others. In the broader U.S. In the broader U.S.

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Entrepreneurship Needs to Be a Bigger Part of U.S. Foreign Aid

Harvard Business Review

” And the Legatum Institute, when aggregating data from the World Bank, the United Nations, and elsewhere to formulate its Prosperity Index , has found that of its many indicators, “entrepreneurship & opportunity” correlates most strongly with a country’s overall prosperity. .” We are talking about the U.S.