Articles by Scott Anderson
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Interviews
Thursday
October 17
2013Focusing New ‘Lenses’ in Investing for Change: An Interview With New Calvert Foundation CEO Jenn Pryce
Detroit’s legendary Woodward Avenue is the pipeline into some of the harshest poverty in the United States. It’s also where Calvert Foundation recently teamed up with other funders to build a retail investment vehicle for inner city revitalization. Scott Anderson spoke with Jenn Pryce, Calvert’s new CEO, about this and other initiatives, the evolution of impact investing, and her vision for Calvert.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Saturday
October 12
2013Weekly Roundup – 10/12/13 : Answering the Call: A Big Response for Cases Lifting the BoP
More than 50 entries from 34 universities in 15 countries.That’s the top line tally of those answering the call for the 2014 NextBillion Case Writing Competition, which recognizes and publishes the best-written case studies about business strategies aimed at alleviating poverty, especially in the developing world.
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- Education
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Saturday
September 28
2013Weekly Roundup – 9/28/13 : A shot in the arm by lowering the risk
This week, a new $94 million impact investment fund J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is launching with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation looks to mitigate the risk for investors and pharmaceutical companies developing drugs for emerging markets.
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- Uncategorized
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- impact investing
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Wednesday
September 25
2013‘Market Relationships’ that Stand the Test of Time: A Q&A with TechnoServe’s Simon Winter on progress and peril in Ag development
TechnoServe is a nonprofit that is squarely focused on profits ... for low-income farmers and small businesses, that is. Simon Winter, senior vice president of development, says once market relationships are built and skill-building strengthened, sourcing costs from smallholders can absorbed in the cost of the goods being sold.
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- Agriculture, Education
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Friday
September 20
2013Weekly Roundup – 9/21/13 – Letting No Moss Grow: The NB Case Writing Contest is gearing up
As enthusiastic as we are about launching NextBillion Financial Innovation this week, we’re not hitting the pause button. In fact, another of NextBillion’s key initiatives is about to launch in earnest: the 2014 NextBillion Case Writing Competition. This is now the fourth year of the competition and we hope to make it just as strong as last years, hopefully stronger.
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- Education
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Tuesday
September 17
2013Announcing NextBillion Financial Innovation: Our newest blog banks on progress
It seems that nearly every day a financial provider, a technology designer or an entrepreneur (or other innovator) is unveiling a new wedge to crack open the door for people traditionally shut out of the financial system. Telling their stories, sharing their insights, debating the consequences of their advancements (or setbacks, as the case may be), this is the guiding principle of NextBillion Financial Innovation, the new blog we’re proudly launching today.
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- Uncategorized
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- impact investing
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Thursday
August 29
2013Introducing NB’s New Health Care Editor
I’m excited to announce the newest member of the NextBillion team. Veteran journalist Kyle Poplin has joined NextBillion as the new editor of NB Health Care.
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- Health Care
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Saturday
August 24
2013Weekly Roundup – 8/24/13 : Busting Internet (and business contest) balloons
The question of whether the poor really need the Internet is playing out, but this time the debate is playing out between the titans at Facebook, Google and Bill Gates.
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- Technology
