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SPOTLIGHT CAN ENTREPRENEURS SAVE THE WORLD? ARTWORK Josh Keyes, Burst I, 2009 Spotlight acrylic on panel, 30 x 80 56 Harvard Business Review September 2010 HBR.ORG Bill Drayton is the CEO Valeria Budinich is of Ashoka: Innovators the founder and chief for the Public, a global entrepreneur of Ashoka’s organization with head- Full Economic Citizenship quarters in Arlington, Initiative. Virginia. Working together, corporations and social entrepreneurs can reshape industries and solve the world’s toughest problems. by Bill Drayton and Valeria Budinich September 2010 Harvard Business Review 57 SPOTLIGHT CAN ENTREPRENEURS SAVE THE WORLD? Social ChangeChCh PROFILE Making Emergency Care More Efficient In India, many lives are lost for want of timely medical care. Not acceptable, decided a group of young Indian professionals, who started Dial 1298 for Ambulance. This initia- We are witnessing a sea change in tive makes ambulances simple to access through an easy-to- the way society’s problems are solved, remember four-digit telephone number and provides service W regardless of a person’s work is performed, and businesses grow. Collabora- This trend has been developi