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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact

Harvard Business Review

My organization, The Bridgespan Group, received 1,800 applications for 18 entry-level positions consulting to nonprofits and philanthropy. Razia Jan, the founder of Zabuli Education Center in Afghanistan, for example, is empowering Afghan girls to speak up in their homes and communities by providing them with free education.

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President Obama Can Make Start-Up America Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Opportunities and markets are global. Entrepreneurs don't need to help America beat China or Brazil in addressing the needs of customers and markets. Microfinance (Bangladesh), securitization of revenues (Saudi Arabia), and royalty-pay-back funding (Israel) were all invented overseas. This is not a contradiction.