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There is a lot of hype about impact investing. The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship took this week at Davos to convene important discussions about how to harness the hype and create results that are both practical and impactful.
The fact that these days you are more likely to attend an investor conference than a donor conference in Africa underscores the energy by which a new generation of leaders are responding to Africa's development challenges.
The Communist Party of Brazil was given the political plum of running the ministry of sports by president Dilma as a reward for staying inside her Worker's Party coalition government during her dramatic move to the political center.
We all dream of reaching our potential. Social entrepreneurs, who often see the mission of their organization as the embodiment of their own personal mission, perhaps know this better than most of us.
We need an entirely different approach, something that recognizes that growing into old age is a long transition taking 20 or 30 years, rather than a sudden cutting off point. It should mean more flexibility in the workplace.
Experts are analyzing and compiling. Advocates are making the business case for everything from educating girls to having women on corporate boards. I'm left wondering -- to what ends?
We are watching. We are listening. We are your daughters, your legacy and the next wave of champions for women and girls.
Gender parity efforts can no longer be considered as a superfluous luxury good; they are critical to the future of business. We have come a long way in our understanding of the economic gender gap in recent years.
Access to leadership roles is not my entitlement as a woman. It is my responsibility as a global citizen to show up, to have a voice, to contribute my time and talents in service to society.
In honor of Women's History Month, join me in uplifting (at least) one deserving woman. Whether it's hiring, promoting, or mentoring, helping one woman will change her life.
How can we solve the world's toughest social challenges without the sincere belief that a wide-scale solution exists? An annual $1M Poverty Challenge, with the goal of identifying and launching the most compelling student-generated solutions to the crippling issues faced by billions in need.
CEOs should receive executive compensation packages that only pay off well for them when their organization is producing good returns for its employees, its shareholders and the environment.
As a Davos novice, it was fascinating for me to observe how entrepreneurship was reflected in the Davos dialogue among the world's movers and shakers. I was disappointed at our leaders' superficiality and misconceptions.
This was the ironic spectacle in Davos -- rich countries are depressed, while hope is rising in the Third World where many no longer want to stay at the bottom after languishing there for generations.
Very few people in the world will ever have the chance to experience an "interfaith moment" quite like mine. There I stood in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum with three smiling new friends from the four corners of the earth.
