Articles by Nitin Rao
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Thursday
January 24
2008Srijan Microfinance Business Plan Competition 2008
Intellecap in partnership with Aavishkaar Goodwell and The Financial Express has announced the launch of the Srijan Microfinance Business Plan Competition 2008. Deadline: March 15, 2008Srijan (meaning creation in English) is a search for entrepreneurs, groups, individuals and microfinance...
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Tuesday
January 22
2008Profitable Business Models and Market Creation in Deep Poverty
I recently had the opportunity to read an IESE occasional Paper, ?Profitable Business Models and Market Creation in the Context of Deep Poverty: A Strategic View? by Christina Seelos and Johanna Mair of the IESE Business School ? University of Navarra.What makes the paper refreshingly...
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Monday
January 7
2008Harvard University’s Global Essay Contest for Bangladesh
Competition: The Anwarul Quadir Prize of 2008 Global Essay Contest for Bangladesh (Website)Organised by: Center for International Development at Harvard UniversitySponsored by: The Anwarul Quadir FoundationKey Dates: Submission Deadline: June 30, 2008 Results: October 15,...
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Friday
December 21
2007Does BoP Success Require the Moral Imperative?
When I first read the seminal article “Serving the World’s Poor, Profitably” in HBR, I found the direction it pointed to elusive. Instead of tugging at sympathy, the paper pointed to an exciting and fast growing market - the immense collective entrepreneurial capabilities and...
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Thursday
December 20
2007Winners: Cornell?s BoP Learning Lab e-Journal Competition
The results are out for first annual BoP e-Journal competition organised by the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University?s Johnson School. We have recently blogged about how Cornell’s BoP Learning Labs are moving the discussion to developing markets, and gaining live...
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Wednesday
December 12
2007Guest Post: L-RAMP Innovation Awards 2007
Shatajit Basu, a college junior at IIT Madras and a core member of the India chapter of Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship society (ASES), attended the L-RAMP Innovation Awards 2007 and sent us this guest post.By Shatajit BasuThe L-RAMP Innovation Awards is a joint initiative of premier...
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Monday
December 3
2007CK Prahalad – The Greatest Management Thinker
NextBillion joins in congratulating Prof. C. K. Prahalad. Prahalad, India-born management guru and academician, has been voted the world’s most influential living management thinker in the Thinkers 50 biennial poll.A professor at the University of Michigans’ Stephen M Ross School of...
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Tuesday
November 20
2007Genesis: India’s Premier Social Entrepreneurship Competition
Genesis is a social entrepreneurship competition that aims to bring together social entrepreneurs, students, NGOs, innovators, incubators, corporations and financiers and encourage them to come up with innovative ideas which are socially relevant and feasible.The competition is hosted by the...
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