Articles by Al Hammond
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Wednesday
November 12
2008A Preliminary Benchmark for Community Scale Water Treatment
Today I am posting the results of a unique partnership and a novel experiment in furthering social entrepreneurship, the fruits of an effort launched on this site a year ago. The partners were Santa Clara University’s Global Social Benefit Incubator and World Resources Institute, and the...
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Friday
September 5
2008A Classic Base of the Pyramid Business
The product is something people everywhere need, but is often costly or ? for more than a billion people worldwide ? simply unavailable. It has to be produced locally on a daily basis. And the market price, in rural India, is less than $20 per household per year. An impossible business? I...
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Monday
August 25
2008A Hothouse of Creativity: From GSBI 2008
It’s pretty intense, the process Francisco and I are engaged in this past week and the coming one. Take 16 social entrepreneurs from a dozen countries on three continents, some very knowledgeable faculty, and more than a high-powered dozen mentors and guest lecturers from Silicon Valley...
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Friday
August 8
2008eHealth: Transforming Global Healthcare Delivery
I’ve been spending the week at one of a series of 8 conferences on eHealth, brainstorming with other entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, health informatics specialists, and policy experts. The setting could hardly be more lovely--the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio center looking down...
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Thursday
May 29
2008Trust, Mobile Banking, and Urban-Rural Remittances
During a recent workshop at the M-banking conference in Cairo, Egypt, a number of practitioners and interested parties discussed the state of mobile banking or-more properly-mobile transactions. One of the interesting insights that emerged comes from the experience of the Vodafone company...
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Monday
May 19
2008Taking BoP Strategies To Scale Pt. 5: Concluding Thoughts
This post is the last in a five part series on a radical new approach to scaling BoP business models, what we call a transformative sector strategy. In this segment, I address the six preceding guest posts that commented on this strategy and offer some concluding thoughts. I welcome these...
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Friday
May 9
2008Taking BoP Strategies To Scale Pt 4: Building New Business DNA for the BoP
This post is the fourth in a five part series on a radical new approach to scaling BoP business models, what we call a transformative sector strategy. In this segment, I discuss the common characteristics that make BoP business models in different sectors scalable solutions.Searching for...
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Thursday
May 8
2008Taking BoP Strategies To Scale Pt. 3: World-Class Healthcare for the World?s Poor
This post is the third in a five part series on a radical new approach to scaling BoP business models, what we call a transformative sector strategy. In this segment, I describe how this strategy could transform the health sector in emerging economies. Last Mile Health Care Delivery Talk...
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