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Impact Investing

Investing for the Safety Net

Technologies that reduce costs and improve care for the underserved are often the most difficult to scale up. But a handful of strategies could turn things around.

By Stefanos Zenios & Lyn Denend | Fall 2011
 
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Water

Spring Water Protection Improves Health

Living near safe drinking water is not the same as drinking safe water.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Fall 2011
 

Health

Perspectives from the Field

Two venture capitalists and an entrepreneur discuss the challenges and opportunities that innovators confront as they seek to improve health care.

By Lisa Suennen, William Rosenzweig, & Chaim Indig | Fall 2011
 
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Health

Framing the Issue

The CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation and the managing director of Versant Ventures provide an introduction to innovations for better health care at lower cost.

By Mark Smith & Barbara Lubash | 1 | Fall 2011
 

Health

Doctor in Your Pocket

New and valuable mHealth apps are coming out all the time. What sort of open architecture can support this wave of innovation?

By Jessica Ruvinsky | 1 | Summer 2011
 

Health

Mothers of Invention

Maternova is getting hundreds of life saving innovations to the front lines in developing countries using a new online platform.

By Suzie Boss | 1 | Summer 2011
 
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Human Rights

Positive Distraction Workforce

Habitat International has grown its bottom line using a largely disabled workforce.

By Meredith May | Spring 2011
 
THE IMAGINATIONS
OF UNREASONABLE
MEN: Inspiration,
Vision, and Purpose
in the Quest to End
Malaria
Bill Shore

Social Entrepreneurship

When Good Is Just Not Good Enough

The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria by Bill Shore

Reviewed By Jane Wales | Winter 2011
 
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Socially Responsible Business

Investing at the Bottom of the Ladder

Companies that invest in their lowest-level employees are more productive and more profitable.

By Jody Heymann | 6 | Winter 2011
 
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Nonprofit Management

Generation Me at the Office

Young workers are, on average, less self-less than previous generations. How will this affect the nonprofit sector?

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Winter 2011