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David Bank

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As seen in: ImpactAlpha, Medium, HuffPost, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Institutional Investor, Media Village, Pioneers Post
Founder and Editor @ImpactAlpha: Investment News for a Sustainable Edge. Former lives: Encore.org, The Wall Street Journal, San Jose Mercury News.
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Abraaj Group liquidation tests champions of Sustainable Development Goal №3

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By David Bank Verified
| Medium
What went wrong in Gates Foundation investment in $1 billion fund for health-care networks in 21st century megacities? ImpactAlpha, June 13 — Failure is good. That’s the party line (of successful people) of Silicon Valley. Mathematically, it may be true for venture capitalists who can spread their bets, where failures can show you’re taking the risks needed to find the unicorns.
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Agents of Impact start to infect their hosts – David Bank – Medium

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By David Bank Verified
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That’s not to say it’s a hot-button that pols will press in this year’s mid-terms. Nor does it split us neatly into blue or red, left or right. Rather, the act of driving capital toward explicit, accountable social and environmental value-creation starts companies and investors down a trail of logic that may well scramble alliances and split constituencies. Split in a good way. Global corporations. Too-big-to-fail banks. Huge pension and sovereign wealth funds. Billionaires and their families.
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Pushing impact investing ‘beyond neoliberalism’ – David Bank – Medium

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By David Bank Verified
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In search of a theory of system-change ImpactAlpha, May 24 — Several years ago, when I was just starting ImpactAlpha, I was summoned to a meeting with the éminence grise of social entrepreneurship, Bill Drayton. As a reporter, I had known him for years; a lunch with Bill was always a bounty of insight and optimism. Now I was an entrepreneur myself and this meeting felt different.
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