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The greatest value incubators can offer social entrepreneurs is training in the language, norms, and rules of business. A new generation of entrepreneurial incubators and accelerators focused Read more |
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By Maria Tranquilli on Tue Aug 13 2024
EDITOR’S NOTE: Maria Tranquilli is the new Executive Director of the Common Mission Project, an international organization that engages students, educators, government organizations, and the Read more |
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“ My great-great grandfather spent the first half of his life making money, and the second half of his life, giving it away - and the family has continued a strong tradition of both business and Read more |
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By Kimberly Eddleston on Thu May 23 2024
Interviewee:
Kaela Hammerstrom Combs
Kaela Hammerstrom Combs is the second generation to run a national organization founded by her mother decades ago -- Blessings in a Backpack, which works through schools to distribute backpacks Read more |
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By Theodore L. Waldron, James C Wetherbe, Chad Navis, Elizabeth Karam and Gideon Markman on Wed Mar 27 2024
Conventional business wisdom holds that innovation comes from smart strategizing inside the company. However, business innovations are often prompted by factors outside of a company. Increasingly, Read more |
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By Fred Rose on Wed Aug 24 2022
In January 2021 I joined the Great Resignation and took an early retirement from the University of Minnesota (UMN). I had spent 12 years there teaching social entrepreneurship and managing Read more |
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By Jeanne Roche on Wed Jul 20 2022
Ford, Estee Lauder, Hyatt. What do these names have in common? For starters, they are behind some of the largest family firms in the world. But they are also associated with a revolution in finance Read more |
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Consumers, policymakers and society at large are caring more and more about businesses' commitment to loftier causes than just making money, such as social justice, the environment, and the welfare Read more |
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More than 2 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water, and each year more than 1 million people die because of water-related diseases. These facts can make life unbearable for affected Read more |
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Since the mid-1970s, microfinance has been seen as a way to lift people in emerging economies out of poverty by providing them access to financial services, particularly microcredit. Micro-loans are Read more |
