Articles by Scott Anderson
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Thursday
March 31
2011Going to See ’To Catch A Dollar’? Tell Us What You Think
Tonight - March 31 - and only tonight, the curtain will go up on the documentary, To Catch a Dollar, in movie theaters around the United States. The film documents the travels of Muhammad Yunus as the Nobel Laurate spreads the word on microfinance - not in Bangladesh, India or Asia - but here ... in America.
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Monday
March 28
2011Hart: Next-Gen BoP Requires a Green Leap
Anyone who has read his work or had the pleasure of speaking with Stuart Hart knows he has clear views on what is green and what it isn’t. Hart co-edited the book, Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid and contributed a chapter, "Taking the Green Leap to the Base of the Pyramid." He explains what clean tech really means.
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Friday
March 25
2011Friday Roundup ? 2/25/11: ’A New Geography of Global Poverty’
?Most of the world?s poor no longer live in low-income countries. An estimated 960 million poor people ? a new bottom billion ? live in middle-income countries (MICs), a result of the graduation of several populous countries from low-income status.? So opens a report this week that should change the way we think about development.
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Friday
March 25
2011WDI Developing BoP Asset Class in Asia Pacific Region
Developing a "blueprint" for a new asset class of private equity funds considering base of the pyramid enterprises and investments in the Asia Pacific region is the goal of a new project at the William Davidson Institute’s Development Consulting Services group.
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Guest Articles
Friday
March 18
2011Friday Roundup – 3/18/11: Failure IS An Option, but Don’t Fail At Learning
Failure grown into meme that has built business guru empires and flooded the speaker/seminar circuit. Adam Richardson, a creative director at global innovation firm frog design, advises that we shouldn’t "fetishize" failure, but learn from it. What has our sector learned from our failures and how are we applying them to future projects?
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Monday
March 14
2011NexThought Monday: It?s a Small World by Design- Let?s Make it a Healthy One
The fulcrum of design, both of technology and program innovations, was an ongoing theme throughout our Advancing Healthcare With the Base of the Pyramid series. We wanted to re-publish these 14-post series in a way that was easily readable and sharable. So, we?re posting the series in a Scribd presentation.
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Friday
March 11
2011Best of February on NextBillion – Awakening to Competition
Whether it’s understanding the nuances of an existing BoP market or transforming seemingly daunting challenges into advantages to earn a sustainable profit, last month’s most-read posts on NextBillion all focused on fresh approaches to competition. If you haven’t already read them, check out the posts that made the top five for February.
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Wednesday
March 9
2011Bringing ’Human-Centered Design’ Forward – Insights Into IDEO.org
This fall, design firm IDEOto launch IDEO.org to spread "human-centered design" by working directly with a wide spectrum of players and a diverse set of project categories to address poverty alleviation. IDEO.org leaders Jocelyn Watt and Patrice Martin, co-lead and creative director chatted with NextBillion about its mission.
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