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ARZU's Founder on Shaping Culture Through Social Enterprise
Duckworth, ConnieArticle HBS-R1609A-ELeadership and People ManagementThe author visited Afghanistan in 2003 as part of a U.S. delegation focused on improving the lives of women. Her idea was to start a business that would employ the women of that country to make a product she could sell in the United States. Some locally woven rugs caught her eye; she carried them back home and started looking for initial funding. She set up a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and began working to construct an entirely new and socially responsi...Starting at €8.20
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HBR's List of Audacious Ideas for Solving the World's Problems
Shiller, Robert J.; Frey, Bruno S.; Osterloh, Margit; Sala, Enric; Gibney, Bruce; Howery, Ken; Gustafson, Ellen; Majumdar, Arun; Easterbrook, Gregg; Searls, Doc; Goodman, Ellen; Porter, Wayne; Hill, Linda A.; Lineback, Kent; Khanna, Parag; Khemka, Karan; Schmidt, EricArticle HBS-R1201B-EAs the global economy vacillates between signs of recovery and omens of collapse, businesses and governments are clamping down. But the world doesn't need austerity; it needs audacity--bold, inventive ideas that take on big problems. So HBR asked experts from a range of disciplines to propose them. Robert J. Shiller believes an innovative form of national financing can solve the global debt crisis. Enric Sala has a radical but simple idea for sav...Starting at €8.20