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Moments of Serendipity in Driving Social Change: Making your own luck and other observations from the Net Impact Conference
Just as good business requires good strategy achieving social impact takes strong ideas and effective mechanisms for planning and executing those ideas. But while a good plan can guide operations, the best ideas often arise unexpected moments. A few of these moments of serendipity came up at this year’s Net Impact Conference in San Jose, California.
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Health Care Needs Lifeline: Analysis of processes in and around Delhi reveals patients treated indifferently
A business consultant studying opportunities finds that patients, irrespective of their class, financial status or origin, are viewed as potential income by too many health care service providers.
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Tapping the Network to Fight Poverty: How targeting influential leaders can increase financial innovation uptake
Whether you measure it by Twitter followers or by how crowded your kitchen is at dinnertime, it’s clear that some people have larger social networks than others. And a few individuals invariably emerge as central points of contact for their larger social groups. Jake Kendall of Gates Foundation discusses innovative research suggesting that these network “hubs” can propel the diffusion of financial innovations at the BoP.
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