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Young biz entrepreneurs compete for social good

Young biz entrepreneurs compete for social good

The Hybrid Social Enterprise and Shared Value: The Future of Business? « The Entrepreneurialist At the present, there are two concepts that are rocking the academic and corporate world. These are enveloped by an even greater, bolder and altruistic notion of redefining not only the purpose of business, but the manner in which we envisage and use capitalism to achieve social and economic aims. One holds that profit should no longer be a means to an end; that the sole purpose of business is not, and cannot remain within a paradigm of profit maximization. The other promotes a hybrid form of the traditional business entity; one which has a dual mission of ‘ doing good’ and harvesting profits to reinvest in social change. The question is, are they complimentary? Can these new business hybrids, the social entrepreneurs , manage to balance the risks and accountability standards which go hand-in-hand with providing societal interests coupled with a commercial mission? . The Social Enterprise and its Limitations The Dual Framework of Capitalism, the Corporation and Societal Welfare Barry, N.

La moda pasa, la marca queda - Marcando por goleada: lo que las marcas han de aprender del balompié El mundo está cambiando. Vamos hacia un cambio de modelo de sociedad, y también de consumo. No es difícil comprobarlo. El low cost llegó para quedarse y el lujo permanece. Y van a seguir conviviendo y contaminándose, porque se necesitan mutuamente. Los polos opuestos se atraen. El primero necesita de vez en cuando vestirse de la ostentación del segundo, y el lujo necesita el dinero de los compradores excursionistas para sobrevivir. El low cost vende producto barnizado de moda, aquí y ahora. Así que las marcas intermedias lo tienen francamente mal, porque no son ni una cosa, ni otra. Esta crisis que nos afecta va mucho más allá de la simple crisis económica, que no es más que la punta del iceberg. Todos los pilares que regían las vidas de las personas se han ido derrumbando uno por uno: religión, trabajo, familia, política. Pero hay algunas personas que tienen más suerte que otras: son las amantes de un deporte llamado balompié, también conocido como fútbol.

Book: This is Service Design Thinking This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases by Jakob Schneider and Marc Stickdorn Book Industry Services (BIS) 16 Dec 2010 Hardcover, 376 pagesPublisher’s page – Book blog – Amazon page This is Service Design Thinking introduces an inter-disciplinary approach to designing services. Service design is a bit of a buzzword these days and has gained a lot of interest from various fields. This book, assembled to describe and illustrate the emerging field of service design, was brought together using exactly the same co-creative and user-centred approaches you can read and learn about inside. The boundaries between products and services are blurring and it is time for a different way of thinking: this is service design thinking. A set of 23 international authors and even more online contributors from the global service design community invested their knowledge, experience and passion together to create this book. (via AHOi!) > Book review

PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative: Our research and development strategy MVI's research and development (R&D) strategy supports the long-term goal of eradicating malaria. The strategy aims to build on the success of GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals' RTS,S vaccine candidate that is now in the final stage of development in seven African countries. The strategy also includes approaches that seek to block malaria transmission and approaches that use weakened, whole parasites to protect against the disease. MVI's R&D projects largely focus on Plasmodium falciparum, the most destructive malaria parasite that is found mainly in Africa. However, to further support efforts to eradicate malaria, MVI is increasing its focus on Plasmodium vivax, which causes a less severe—but more widespread—form of malaria. MVI's P. vivax program may yield candidates suitable for use in combination with those targeting P. falciparum. Most new projects come to MVI as preclinical feasibility studies, with only a limited number advancing to full portfolio programs on a clinical track.

What does WikiLeaks say about Central Africa? There were, of course, many cables relating to the Great Lakes among the 250,000 State Department cables released last week. Very few, however, have been released. This is what I can glean so far:A cable signed by Hillary Clinton (put up by Jeune Afrique but the link no longer works) directing US officials to gather all relevant information on "people linked the Great Lakes." Most of the information is pretty standard for intelligence gathering: phone, credit card and frequent flyer card numbers; email and phone address books; other biographical information. However, for political leaders, the directive also asks for DNA samples, fingerprints and iris scans. All of this tracks very closely a similar directive asking for information about diplomats at the UN;In the same cable, the stated national interests of the US in the region are: natural resources and "the consequences of the genocide."

Social Entrepreneurs And Youth in Japan: Agents Against A Return To Isolation When Ashoka, a leading American nonprofit that supports social entrepreneurs, opened an office in Japan recently, founder Bill Drayton noted at the press conference that Japan was the first country in over 80 countries where Ashoka is active, “where someone from that country came to us first.” [Full video here.] That someone was Nana Watanabe, the author of two Japanese bestselling books (in Japanese only) on social entrepreneurship, Changemakers: Social Entrepreneurs are Changing the World (2005) and Changemakers II: Working as a Social Entrepreneur (2007). Active with the Japan Society’s Innovators Network, Nana’s commitment to nurturing the next generation of social entrepreneurs and serving as a Leadership Group Member to Ashoka in Japan comes as no surprise to us. The Ashoka Japan office is headed by Kashiwa Maki, a former Bridgestone executive and the founder of a social business in Southern California that worked with Japanese children with disabilities and their families.

El gatopardo El gatopardo (traducción conscientemente errónea de Il Gattopardo, cuyo significado real es El leopardo jaspeado[1] y se refiere específicamente al llamado en italiano gattopardo africano, conocido en español como serval) es una novela escrita por Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, entre finales de 1954 y 1957. Rechazada en un principio por las editoriales Einaudi y Mondadori, fue publicada póstumamente por la editorial de Giangiacomo Feltrinelli con prólogo de Giorgio Bassani. En 1959 obtuvo el Premio Strega, y en 1963 Luchino Visconti la adaptó al cine. Argumento[editar] En mayo de 1860, tras el desembarco de Garibaldi en Sicilia, Don Fabrizio (personaje inspirado en Giulio IV di Lampedusa, bisabuelo del autor) asiste con distancia y melancolía al final de una época. Vista parcial del extenso parque del Castillo de Donnafugata. Al día siguiente la familia Salina acude a un convento de monjas, al cual tiene acceso privilegiado sólo el Príncipe Fabrizio y su confesor, el padre Pirrone.

Octavo Cerco / English

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