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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact

Harvard Business Review

Leading MBA programs have doubled the number of courses they offer that have social enterprise content. Huge companies like IBM have created programs to train and transition retirees into social sector roles. Elite undergraduate business schools like Babson College have changed their mission statement s to explicitly include social value.

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Facebook Presence Is an Important Clue to a Social Venture's Future

Harvard Business Review

This makes sense to Milaap.org , a social enterprise in Bangalore that crowdsources low-cost capital for microfinance institutions through its online platform. Then, create good content that's relevant to your field, and engaging. Similarly, Twitter followers are more numerous when the venture is active on Facebook and LinkedIn.

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The Conference That’s Trying to Reinvent How We Network

Harvard Business Review

According to Nadia Lakhdari, vice president of content and creation for the event, C2 Montreal , this is the future of conference networking. Another pair chatted while pumping their legs on exercise bikes on an elevated catwalk. And, out back, strangers were taking Ferris wheel rides together. ” You and Your Team. And it worked.