“When a woman realises her potential, she lifts everyone around her”
The Jaya Alliance, a movement to empower rural women in India, build skills and create livelihoods.
Confronting COVID-19 and the New Normal: Intense Needs. Immense Possibilities
How has Dharma Life supported rural Indians in its response to COVID-19?
One Young World Ambassadors in conversation
Social Enterprise and Business for Change One Young World (OYW) is a not-for-profit organisation, connecting young leaders from across the globe to identify, discuss and come up with solutions to some of the world’s most pressing issues. Each year, OYW hosts its annual Summit, inviting more than 1,800 talented young leaders from over 190 countries,…
Voice of the Village: Introducing the Jaya Alliance for women’s livelihoods
Join us for the 2nd event in the Voice-of-the-Village roundtable series, in which we will launch the Jaya Alliance for livelihood opportunities among rural women.
Wheeler Institute project team collaborates with Dharma Life to transform their model in response to COVID-19
You can see the last time we posted about this project was announcing the project here. COVID-19 has affected many people in many ways in 2020. Geric and I are very lucky that the biggest personal impact has been that our post MBA employment was delayed by six months. When this happened in May, I…
Dharma Life’s Pivot: How a social enterprise is empowering women entrepreneurs and transforming its model in response to COVID-19
COVID-19 poses an immense threat to the people of rural India. This is the case both immediately as a health and wellbeing concern and in the longer term as development issues fail to progress due to a shift in focus and funding. Approximately 400 million people working in the informal economy in India are at risk of falling deeper into poverty due to this crisis. This devastating impact on livelihood could take the lives of more Indians than the disease itself.
Voice of the Village: confronting the new normal
Be part of the conversations that create solutions and join Dharma Life’s rural women entrepreneurs and a network of global partners to identify and discuss the challenges faced by rural communities.
From Technological Achievement To Technological Progress
In this webinar Professor Daron Acemoğlu, Professor of Economics at MIT and Professor Andrew J Scott, an Economics Professor at London Business School and author of ‘The New Long Life’, discussed where we are currently heading with technology, what the likely impact will be on jobs and what needs to be done at an individual, corporate and government level to ensure that technological achievement delivers true technological progress for society.
Reimagining Capitalism In a World on Fire
Rebecca Henderson, John and Natty McArthur University Professor from Harvard University joined LBS Professor, Ioannis Ioannou to discuss her latest book “Reimagining Capitalism In a World on Fire” and consider how capitalism needs to be reformed and some of the implications of COVID-19 on the global economic system.
How power dynamics and competition is impacting economies and consumers across the globe
How are shifts in market power impacting competition and the nature of capitalism? Hélène Rey, Professor of Economics at London Business School, Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, Joseba Martinez, Professor of Economics at London Business School, were joined in conversation with Thomas Philippon, Professor of Finance at New York University, Stern…