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Innovating for the New Indian Consumer: How to Succeed in Low Income Markets.
India today is the leading country in the world innovating for and marketing to low and middle income consumers. Indian business leaders...
Oct 27, 2015
Business Strategies Alleviating Poverty in the Developing World
Professor Ted London, Vice President of the William Davidson Institute at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and one of...
Jun 23, 2015
Israel Kenya Agri Challenge
The Pears Program in cooperation with the Embassy of Israel in Kenya hosted a Pitch competition to identify leading Kenyan Agri...
May 28, 2015
Food Security in Africa: The Next Big Opportunity for Impact-Driven Entrepreneurs
The launch event for the 2015 Pears Challenge was held at Bank Leumi headquarters in Tel Aviv. Speakers included Yossi Abramovitz, CEO...
Mar 10, 2015
Drink Pitch Mingle
Drink Pitch Mingle is a networking series organized by IsraelDev where members are invited to meet and mingle with other Israeli...
Jan 20, 2015
Financing Projects for Developing Markets
Ron Margalit is the managing director of Lonomics, an investment consulting firm focusing on impact financing for emerging markets. Ron...
Dec 30, 2014
Israelis Innovating for Africa
As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week Israel, the Pears Program hosted a panel discussion on Israelis Innovating for Africa, at...
Nov 20, 2014
The HookUp Dinner - Connecting Israeli and African Entrepreneurs
The HookUp Dinner is a growing entrepreneurial networking initiative that gives startups a platform from which to connect, engage, and...
Sep 17, 2014
Young South African Entrepreneurs Visit Israel
September 15 - 19, 2014 The South Africa-Israel Forum (SAIF) partnered with Investec to organize the first-ever Young Entrepreneurs pilot...
Sep 15, 2014
Kenyan tech delegation brings entrepreneurs to Israel
September 15 - 19, 2014 The Pears Program for Global Innovation in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a delegation...
Sep 15, 2014
2014 Conference on Leveraging the Private Sector for Agricultural Innovation in Development
The conference, which was attended by over 120 people, featured 3 panel discussions on the topics of public-private partnerships, ethics,...
Jul 3, 2014
Opportunities and Challenges in East Africa
Duncan Onyango, Director of Acumen East Africa shared his insights on social investment trends in the rapidly growing East African market...
Jun 4, 2014
Doing Business for the Base of the Pyramid
The Pears Innovation for International Development Program partnered with Microsoft Ventures to provide a lecture on entrepreneurship and...
May 25, 2014
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets
May 12 - June 9, 2014 StarTau, Tel Aviv University Entrepreneurship Center, Pears Innovation for International Development Program, and...
May 12, 2014
Social Enterprises Scaling Impact
Pamela Roussos, Director of Strategic Alliances at the Global Social Benefit Institute at Santa Clara University in the Silicon Valley...
Apr 3, 2014
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