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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

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. Lessons from Microfinance. In 2010, J.P

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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

Twitter Followers. Twitter Followers. What Does Your Twitter Follower Ratio Say About You? Servant Leaders Build Up, Power Leaders Tear Down. Peer-to-Peer Microfinance: A Sustainable Solution to Poverty. Leadership as a Product Purhcased by Followers. Total Followers. Servant Leadership Intro.

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Can Technology End Poverty?

Harvard Business Review

We're more likely to scale up birthing kits that cost less than 50 cents apiece than mobile apps that might diagnose disease; more likely to open one-room schools in rented spaces or even boats , where children sit on the floor and learn to think creatively, than insist that every pupil have Internet access. million users.

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Scaling Up Without Losing Your Edge

Harvard Business Review

Following Abed's twist on Schumacher — "small may be beautiful, but big is necessary" — it now touches the lives of an estimated 126 million people with healthcare, education, enterprise development, microfinance and a slew of other programs. In short, by following the mantra "pilot, perfect, scale up.".

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Can Technology End Poverty?

Harvard Business Review

We're more likely to scale up birthing kits that cost less than 50 cents apiece than mobile apps that might diagnose disease; more likely to open one-room schools in rented spaces or even boats , where children sit on the floor and learn to think creatively, than insist that every pupil have Internet access. million users.

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

Harvard Business Review

Last summer, Social Enterprise @ Goizueta set out with Village Capital , a peer-based accelerator program, to learn (among other things) whether social entrepreneurs with larger social-media followings are showing greater commercial promise. 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

Two more were climbing up a ladder into a giant nest-like structure. C2 partnered with Montreal-based start-up E-180 to offer an app through which attendees could share both what they were trying to learn at the event and what knowledge they could impart to others, then use the information to book “brain dates” with each other.