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"To Build or Not to Build?" - That Is the Question

Here’s a dilemma: You are the owner of a construction company and to expand your market, you need to go into neighborhoods where clients can’t pay the typical construction costs. Where there is a dearth of skilled labor. Where it was nearly impossible to transport the materials typically associated with your conventional construction methods. You ask yourself: why make the…

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Bringing Markets Closer to Farmers:

Multi Commodity Exchange of India’s Gramin Suvidha Kendra Initiative

 

Thursday, September 29, 2011 

9:00 am NY/2:00 pm London/3:00 pm Johannesburg/6:30 pm New Delhi…

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This is a story to be shared by a video I just  produced on this incredible story: One question: How many clients would welcome their bankers on Wall Street with such love and respect ?

 

 

 

VOICES OF WOMEN…

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A core value in my consulting work with corporations is that CSR will only be effective and sustainable if it is aligned with the company’s business mission. So it’s exciting to see an innovative iteration of that principle where a company develops a new investment vehicle that could potentially drive entrepreneurship and facilitate wealth accumulation in developing countries.



“If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and… Continue