boston BR6

[chris macrae]

legatum is part of mit boston led by bangadeshi american iqbal quadir

- br2 bkash with brac and with jack ma br0

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its amjor funders include br7 dubai legatum , . matsercard foundation hq in canada

leagtum has been epicengtre of mobil to end poverty since tyaking a partnership team to grameen's yunus that included telenor,soros and other funders and started grameen phone 11 yeras later; iqba's bother kamil who had already developed a text based microebay caleed cellbazaar started partnersing bfrac and conceiving the worlkd's largest xashless bank bkash- this drew on knowledge of nick hughes who had been leader in coceiving mpsea in kenya while working for vodaphone- iqbal sgtarted money in motiol llc out of boston to unite all extreme fintech to end poverty designers including nich hughes

legatum takes on about 25stident fellows a year and they interact with enetrperenur compoetityions ecoshystem that boston is uniue in wesgtern world fir - such competitions include the mainly stidy run mit100k - and a gloval solution competotion which has been rebranding istyeflf as solves

when you ask how did boston over last 30 yeras or so become america's number 1 stident entrepreneur startup competition space - kit was partly because leaders of engtrepreneurship curriculum at slaon managementy svchool insidted on competiotions by bracoce- engineering arteas not an overall fiuance led one by the busiemss school- in fact slaon says when iot see a studnet with a built to flip model kit tries to exchnage that student wioth hatrbvatrd

additionaly teh architecure svchool made the amazing ;eap that digital and architectuire of futires ciotoes and spaces must converge - it rebuilt its labs as media lab- one of the gtreat building spaces in mit

it helps that mit is a compact space- the square mile around mit as mor fuitires of the world head quarteres than any one mile square area i have ever seen although these days the suburb around tsinghua in beijing copmpetes but it is 5 mill square as befots the metahib of china's 5 million stgartups of 2017

of course mit-tsinghua have a thriving stident club- general mitef has extended kmut alumni clubs to more than 30 cities at least half worldwide

back to iqbal - he founded and co-edited the journal innovations for many yeras - this tried as hard as possible to present experumental cases not ones that had been wrotten with hindsight the way all hbr cases seem to be PR'd

which other colleges in boston a re worth sustainability tourist voyage

tufts is bruilainat on the arcctic and on dimpl;omacy, kits the alma mater kif the current head of mastercard foundation;l kit used to be the favotrite space of us news journalists before all uis news became fakeable

parrtners in health worldwide mediacl exchnage with poorest places l.ike haiti and peru and rwanda and .. is the 33 yera cponsequence of what paul farmer and jim kim and opheleai dhal sgtarted building when jim and paul met each other studing medical anthropolgy out of harvard- the operational hq of paul farmers has long been boston's brigham womens hospital- of clourse jim kim ;left leadership of pih for a short stint as head of dartmouth before being headhunted by obama fir tyhe world bank in 2012- and this bfrings back to george sloros and brac together they found partners inm helath and vice versa- the connectors of last ,ile helath networks, and as lily the pink would say the saviors of the himan race when kit coems to stopping plagues ;like ebola