Global Issues
Does the Development Sector Need Its Own WikiLeaks?
Could radical transparency in global development lead to better outcomes?
Tag: International Development
Economic Development
A Broader Definition of Business
Business education should include lessons from market-based approaches to international development goals in developing countries.
Energy
Five Innovations That Will Electrify Africa
How a continent of over 1 billion off-grid customers can move from darkness to light over the next decade.
Energy
Why Energy Philanthropy Is High-Impact Philanthropy
Energy is central to many causes that funders care about, but it is one of the most underappreciated issues in 21st-century philanthropy.
Impact Investing
Impact Investing in Global Health: Let’s Get Flexible
Investors should think creatively about how to meet the real needs of entrepreneurs who are creating market-based solutions to health problems in emerging economies.
Human Rights
Empowering Women at the Grassroots
In many parts of the world, corporations today are cultivating partnerships with locally rooted organizations that promote a multi-faceted approach to women’s empowerment. Includes magazine extras.
Review
Economic Development
Past Isn’t Always Prologue
For policy makers today, earlier efforts to promote local community organizing yield relatively few lessons.
Civil Society
Slowly Strangling Civil Society
How donor funding distorts civil society goals and priorities.
Civil Society
Navigating Disruptions
International civil society organizations need to change their business models.
Podcast
Global Issues
From the Marine Corps to Kenya: Ending Extreme Poverty
After experience in Iraq as a part of the Marine Corps, Jake returned to business school and took on the challenge to alleviate extreme poverty. From this effort, Nuru was launched in 2008.