Jacqueline Novogratz
Autore di The Blue Sweater
Sull'Autore
Jacqueline Novogratz is founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a nonprofit venture capital firm for the poor that invests in sustainable enterprise.
Fonte dell'immagine: Joyce Ravid
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1961-03-19
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Virginia, USA
New York, USA
Kigali, Rwanda - Istruzione
- University of Virginia
Stanford Graduate School of Business - Attività lavorative
- businessperson
- Organizzazioni
- Acumen Fund
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- 2
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- 2
- Utenti
- 538
- Popolarità
- #46,306
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 19
- ISBN
- 14
- Lingue
- 2
Capitalism has gotten a bad name when individuals live for money alone. But Adam Smith originally wrote The Wealth of Nations as a natural account of how commerce actually happens and contributes to human happiness through accruing wealth. Novogratz digs deeply into Smith’s well to describe her life journey. After college, she started companies like microfinance ventures in central Africa to advance women’s well-being there. She returned to the US, but still kept an ideal of combining philanthropy and for-profit business in the same venture. She calls this “social entrepreneurship” and has applied these concepts globally in Africa and south Asia.
Along her path, she also had to reckon with a changed central Africa. Her efforts started with a focus on Rwanda just before the genocide. Then tragedy struck, and friends died. Other friends were jailed for committing atrocities. The entire country changed. She talks about navigating her relationships around this trauma. She seems to feel an uneasy peace about this event in a way that transcends logic. These reflections provide the most interesting human factors of her account.
I myself am not in business, economics, or philanthropy – clearly the main fields of this book. (I write software for medical research instead.) Nonetheless, this book reminds me of a large human search for meaning. Capitalism is just a tool for these ends, for individual happiness and for others’. Although its themes are clearly rooted in an optimism from the the 21st century’s first decade, anyone who wants to unite material benefits with universal human flourishing – in whatever field – can appreciate Novogratz’s account.… (altro)