Articles by Moses Lee
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Tuesday
September 29
2009Sustainability: Placing a Higher Value on Our Future
In Professor Gautam Kaul?s course ?Finance and the Sustainable Enterprise? at the Ross School of Business, we recently had a lengthy and very profound discussion on sustainability and interest rates. Yes, that?s right: interest rates. You didn?t read this wrong. (And please don?t stop reading now)
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Wednesday
September 9
2009Looking at Sustainability Through the Lens of Finance
Professor Gautam Kaul, Professor of Finance at the Ross School of Business, has agreed to put his course entitled, "Finance and the Sustainable Enterprise," online for faculty at other schools to use. The course is unique in that it looks at the issue of environmental and social sustainability through an economics and finance perspective.
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Sunday
August 23
2009Seeing Eye to Eye? New Case Study with BoP Critic Aneel Karnani
BoP critic Aneel Karnani and I decided to put our energy into writing a case study on the topic of vision correction in the developing world. In the case study, we looked at two enterprises - Essilor and VisionSpring - that are trying to address global uncorrected refractive error by selling eyeglasses.
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Tuesday
August 4
2009The Next: 2010 Case Writing Competition
The William Davidson Institute (WDI) has partnered with Acumen Fund and the World Resources Institute (WRI) to launch The Next: 2010 Case Writing Competition on NextBillion.net. The purpose of this competition is to engage students in writing high-impact case studies with their professors to help further the overall base of the pyramid movement.
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Thursday
June 4
2009Social Investing Part 1: Risks, Returns, and Me
A lot of investors can give charitably, but cannot fathom making an investment in a social venture that does not have an appropriate risk-reward trade-off. So, what does this mean for social ventures? Will they never be able to attract the appropriate funding necessary to achieve significant scale?
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Wednesday
March 25
2009Entrepreneurship for Survival at the Base of the Pyramid
For those of us living in developed countries, the idea of entrepreneurship is very romantic and idealistic. It’s often thought of in the vein of "Making your dreams come true!" and "You can change the world!" I would almost go so far as to say that entrepreneurship as we know it in the developed world is a luxury. Not so in the developing world.
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Wednesday
March 4
2009The Need to Fund Social Entrepreneurs
When the financial incentive is discounted for social entrepreneurs, many of the best stay on the sidelines and that’s not where we need them to be. I want to suggest that if we can close the financial gap for social entrepreneurs, perhaps we will see more social entrepreneurship activities unleashed. So, where will this funding come from?
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Wednesday
February 11
2009Are the Poor Really Entrepreneurial?
Last month, Aneel Karnani wrote in the Stanford Social Innovation Review an article entitled, "Romanticizing the Poor."? In it, he states, "...romanticized views of BoP people as value-conscious consumers and resilient entrepreneurs are not only false, but also harmful." I think a lot of what Karnani says in the article is true ...
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