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New Business Models for Sustainable Trading: Part 4
It’s easy to hate the middle men. These invisible actors in the supply chain are often portrayed as shady characters who create little "value", instead contributing to higher prices at the grocery store register and lower wages to farmers. What do they do, anyway?
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Students: Make the Most Out of the Recession
I’ve been chatting with a number of my students in Social Venture Creation about their commitment to their projects post class. To my delight, many are strongly considering moving forward to launch because of the state of the jobs market. And even better, they are recruiting their colleagues to join on!
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Finding the Efficient Frontier of Financial and Social Returns
One of the most heavily-attended panels at the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference this year was titled: Social Impact Investing: Putting Your Dollar to Work in the Developing World. Moderator Amit Bouri opened with a question for the audience: "How many believe that to increase social impact, financial investors must sacrifice financial returns?"
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