Khatib decided to share a longstanding problem in AIDS research in the form of Foldit, a program that reframes scientific challenges as a competitive multiplayer computer game.
Social investors share a different problem: They and their intermediaries have a hard time finding investees, because too many social entrepreneurs remain dependent on unreliable income sources and are unable to return funds with interest, or have strategies that may not benefit from investments (more on the dangerous promise of impact investments).
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Badoo has already achieved the critical mass needed to make it a going concern and seems to have no problem persuading users to share personal details -- a fact that should be encouraging to Highlight and other, newer social startups.
"We share those passions and when you have a problem like World Debt which is soluble, then seize the moment, " he enthused.
My wife didn't share my Sundance obsession, which became a problem when January came around and I'd disappear to Park City for a week.
Pfizer's trail of woe, reflected in a 40% share price decline since 1998, is a result of an affliction known to every problem gambler: the delusion that skill can overcome chance.
The idea that this was a data problem makes sense only if you believe bank executives were unaware that a substantial share of their profits came from mis-selling.
That might be more attainable if they had less capital, and indeed their falling share prices have done a good job of reducing the problem.
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On Wednesday, Eric Berg of Barclays Capital said reiterated his view that the steep drop in life insurers' share prices over the past two weeks does not point to a looming solvency problem in the industry.
We also share a number of disappointments and frustrations arising from reform efforts that have been mounted to solve that problem.
R. officers will have a chance to directly interact with NGOs and government leaders working on this problem, share their ideas, and come away better prepared to advise their C-Suite colleagues on how to approach these issues.
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With respect to carbon emissions, I share the view of your Prime Minister and most scientists in the world that climate change is a real problem and that human activity is contributing to it, and that we all have a responsibility to find ways to reduce our carbon emissions.
Yet the problem with their promises is this: for every bit of conviction, there is a shameful share of pure posturing.
The problem is that China's narrower surplus reflects an unsustainable rise in investment (as a share of GDP) rather than in consumption.
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Giant economies do not face this problem so acutely because even when trade has been liberalised, imports naturally tend to be a lower share of GDP.
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