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3 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Can Solve Their Talent Problem

Harvard Business Review

Bringing light to Africa , mobile banking to Bangladesh , low-cost health care to Nepal, or better school lunches to the American cafeteria: In all these cases, the private sector is a big part of the action. That social entrepreneurs can make a difference is not in question ( here are dozens of examples). Fair enough.

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The Problem with Trend Tracking

Harvard Business Review

Both parties are to this extent "glocal" — global and local. An excellent NPR piece, The New American Localism , notes an upsurge of localism in a range of things, even banking and philanthropy. Yes, both are listening to national and international communities of taste and practice.

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