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Dr. Melodena Stephens Balakrishnan
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How Your Business Can Carry Out Social Innovation (And Become A Force For Good)
The main thing for companies to recognize at this stage it that you can have a tremendous impact on the world by the message you are sending out. Are you inclusive? Do you live your values? What matters most: profits or people?
The How-To: Scaling Social Enterprise Ventures
The world needs social entrepreneurs, and social entrepreneurs need funds!
Five Tips For Building Your Startup's Brand Strategy
The company brand is your personal calling card- it can stay with you forever.
The Roadmap For Building A Business With Heart
A business with heart need not be a large corporation with a strong CSR outreach program; it can be a startup that has an embedded purpose to do good.
Hope, Optimism and Resiliency: The Three Most Powerful Leadership Tools You Can Have As An Entrepreneur
A study of leaders in high technology startups and established firms found that the traits of hope, optimism, and resiliency had a direct impact on transformational leadership, which directly impacted firm performance.
Eight Steps To Create An Entrepreneurial Roadmap For Your Venture
Many entrepreneurs "fall" into a venture, and before you know it, they find themselves frantically both building and learning about a business at the same time.
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