India
4 Lessons on Scaling Social Ventures through Partnerships
May 2016 Bigger isn’t always better. That’s one key headline global health entrepreneurs offered staff of USAID’s Center for Accelerating Innovation & Impact and Higher Education Solutions Network during a recent panel discussion titled Lessons Learned on the Journey to Scale. During the panel SEAD innovators from ayzh, Forus Health, Operation ASHA, and Noora Health […]
CASE Chat with Eric Savage, Co-Founder and President, Unitus Capital
May 2016 This month’s CASE Chat features Eric Savage, Co-Founder and President of Unitus Capital. Based in Bangalore, India, Unitus Capital was founded in 2008 with the mission of accelerating capital markets for ventures serving low-income populations in Asia. In the CASE Chat, Eric discusses initial challenges they faced in starting a social investment bank, […]
My Internship with Noora Health: Empowering Families as Caregivers
This post was written by Karen Ottoni, Fuqua MBA 2016 in November 2015. Karen arrived at the Fuqua School of Business after spending several years living abroad in Burundi and Ethiopia working in international development, primarily with USAID and USAID-funded projects. The experience inspired her to explore disruptive innovations happening at the intersection of business and social impact […]
Vaatsalya & Sevamob: The “Food Truck” Approach to Scaling Up Health
September 2015 The 7,000 miles between Clover, a bustling, chain of healthy fast food restaurants in Boston, and Vaatsalya Heathcare Solutions, a chain of hospitals serving patients in semi-rural cities in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, might seem too great a distance for innovation to percolate. But when Dr. Ashwin Naik, who co-founded Vaatsalya in 2005, heard best-selling […]
The Challenges of Global Health
Dr. Krishna Udayakumar gave this TED-style talk as part of CASE’s 10th anniversary celebration in December 2012. “If you are born in some places in sub-saharan Africa, you can expect to live less than half as long as someone who is born in Western Europe.” That is how Dr. Krishna Udayakumar – a Fuqua alum […]