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Guest Post: An Entrepreneur's Thoughts on Market Incentives & Foreign Aid

Mills Scofield

MedInternational was started in 2011 to raise the standard of healthcare in resource-poor regions of the world by sharing and maintaining appropriate hospital technology in these areas, initially Zanzibar, Tanzania. Thoughts on Charity, Foreign Aid and Market Incentives - Tanzania. by Chia Han Sheng on Sunday, August 19, 2012.

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Michael Fraccaro, CHRO at Mastercard, on the value of business resource groups

HR Digest

I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” They’ve helped drive the development of mobile payment solutions to promote financial inclusion in emerging markets. We’re always looking for ways we can be a positive influence in the markets where we operate.

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The Right Entry Point for Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. After all, the World Bank estimates that the number of middle class consumers in emerging markets will jump from 420 million today to more than 1.2

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Decisioning by consensus usually results in no decision being made, or an intellectually dishonest, watered-down decision that is so full of compromises, hedges and caveats that a non-decision might have been preferable. Where levels of responsibility and consequences for success or failure fall differently on various participants.

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The Disruption of Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals. In response, they can choose to participate in more deals or bigger deals.

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3 Ways to Get Your Own Digital Platform

Harvard Business Review

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Digital platforms are grease for the flywheel, facilitating the rapid exchange of value between network participants at near-zero marginal cost. No strategy is static.

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3 Things Driving Entrepreneurial Growth in Africa

Harvard Business Review

Another reason is that investors are myopically infatuated with snazzy technology. An unfortunate reality of many African economies is that only a tiny fraction of the population participates in the formal economy. A realistic approach to making money might strike some as humdrum. Top of the Pyramid.