Articles by Kyle Poplin
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Tuesday
June 17
2014The Science of Dirt (Part 2): High hopes for the scalability of $12 water micro-filters made of natural elements
Serial social entrepreneur Chandrasekaran Jayaraman is making and selling all-natural water micro-filters in India, and believes that his market might eventually include the world. This is the second of a two-part Q&A.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- manufacturing, product design, scale
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Monday
June 16
2014The Science of Dirt (Part 1): Entrepreneur building and selling affordable, electricity-free water filters made with clay, sand and sawdust in India
While traveling in India, Chandrasekaran Jayaraman saw firsthand that most villages did not have good drinking water or good toilets. After determining that the problem was fixable, he set to work refining the government’s patented technology to make water micro-filters using clay. This is the first of a two-part Q&A.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- manufacturing, product design, scale
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Saturday
June 7
2014Weekly Roundup – 6/7/2014: Experience is winning the battle with theory, and that’s good news for social enterprises
More college students are studying abroad, interning and volunteering in an effort to pad their resume, but also to get the personalized education they desire. It could be argued that this is good news for social enterprises focused on health care.
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- Education, Health Care
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Saturday
May 24
2014Weekly Roundup – 5/24/14: ColaLife founders show the power of listening and adapting
Why did Simon Berry and his ColaLife team decide against including medicine in crates of Coke delivered to the most remote and medically underserved regions in the world, despite dreaming about doing just that for 20 years? Because they learned “it was the space in the market that was important, not the space in the crates,” Berry said.
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- Health Care
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Thursday
May 22
2014Life Without Cola: ColaLife founder Berry says anti-diarrhea effort didn’t need Coca-Cola’s distribution system, after all
For 20 years, Simon Berry dreamed of including life-saving anti-diarrhea medicine in Coca-Cola crates. After the dream came true with ColaLife, however, he discovered that the piggyback method was actually a constraint; people were buying more anti-diarrhea kits than Coke.
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- Health Care
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Monday
May 12
2014Market Dynamics, Your Time Has Come: NextBillion Health Care launches a new initiative; let the debate begin
Market dynamics is emerging as a key to delivering health care to the base of the pyramid. NextBillion Health Care is launching a new initiative in recognition of that fact.
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- Health Care
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Saturday
May 3
2014Weekly Roundup – 5/3/14: An Arab Spring for global health?
Amartya Sen once said that famines don’t occur in democracies. His statement still largely holds true. Unfortunately, democracy is under siege in many parts of the world.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Technology
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Friday
April 25
2014Why Chevron is in the Business of Stopping HIV: Each year mother-to-child transmission of HIV affects 70,000 babies in Nigeria
Chevron has partnered with Pact, an international NGO, to help prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Nigeria. Deji Haastrup, a Chevron GM, explains: "While fighting AIDS is not our core business, it is core to the success of our business."
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- Health Care