The Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance alliance has become the largest and most powerful network of African ventures, collectively valued at over $1 billion. This is the transcript of Mark Weber’s keynote address to kick off the inaugural Harambeans Global Summit.
Read MoreBoxing isn’t like other sports. It activates the lizard brain; the fight-or-flight response, primal fear. Search “boxing fear psychology” and you’ll find a wealth of interesting content. From the military academies preparing young minds to face the traumas of war to urban community centers helping kids escape drug violence, boxing transforms lives in ways that may seem absurd to the uninitiated.
Read MoreThe Yarn is an MIT Sloan tradition of sharing personal stories that have shaped our lives. In this Yarn, Mark Weber shares his formative experience as a special needs counselor at SpringHill Camps, a Christian summer camp in Michigan with an integrated program promoting inclusion and learning.
Read MoreSome 40 leaders in child care from all over the world were in the room, and the consensus was clear from the outset: short-term volunteering in orphanages are bad for kids.
Read MoreThere is legitimate cause for concern with regard to World Vision's work with child sponsorship, shipping of donated goods, and poverty imagery in commercials.
Read MoreSometimes aid is most harmful when it does reach the people. This an other insights from the making over Poverty, Inc.
Read MoreIndeed, poverty is infinitely complex and there are no convenient singularities. The project of Poverty, Inc. is embrace that complexity and eschew silver bullets. “It’s easy to have a heart for the poor,” says development expert Michael Fairbanks in the film. “But can we have a mind for the poor? That’s the challenge.”
Read More“When I see the country heads drive around in their posh cars and living in their big houses,” echoes Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse in Poverty, Inc., “I see multiple colonial governors. We are held captive by the donor community.”
Read MoreVery few people ever take notice of one of the key drivers of illegal immigration: poverty in the developing world fueled by U.S. agricultural subsidies and crony capitalist trade policies supported by Republicans and Democrats alike.
Read MoreWe heard two big bangs about 50 yards ahead. My friends grabbed me, their guest, tightly and the rickshaw driver halted abruptly. People were running and yelling, but it seemed no one was hurt from the explosions. Just mini-bombs, meant to frighten, not to injure. A few moments later, we were bouncing along again as if nothing had happened. But that was just the beginning.
Read MoreThe rural areas of Bangladesh are breathtakingly beautiful in both scenery and culture, but they are very difficult, and sometimes nearly deadly to traverse.
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