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Idea: Social Entrepreneurship MBAs
Look, rather than trying to start up in-house social entrepreneurship degree programs, and the accompanying fellowships, higher education institutions would be much better off aligning their endowments, entrepreneurs, and educators with real social purpose: Finding quality candidates interested in this … Continue reading
Fooling Twitter
LOL. The application of social bots to game social networks. One team in the competition decided to test their bots on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service, which is based on swarms of humans performing simple tasks very cheaply. As Ackerman explained, “so … Continue reading
The Future of Development
Madeleine Bunting posts two possibile scenarios. One outlines what happens if we approach development in a linear fashion: African countries are crippled by the challenge of adapting to climate change; huge resources are channelled through the Green Fund from industrialised nations, … Continue reading
Amazon vs. Apple Is Really Zehr vs. Ive
Of course Amazon is gearing up to launch the iPad alternative. To succeed though, they need a world class designer. (This is where Motorola, Nokia, Sony are all screwing the pooch, big time.) I don’t think Amazon can beat Apple. (It … Continue reading
Goofy Radicalization Get-Together
If you were a maladjusted kid, were exposed to an alternative social system that condoned/encouraged violence, pursued that route for the social mobility it provided, left it for something better, and have been exploiting your former status as a ‘radical’ … Continue reading