Articles by Derek Newberry
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Friday
May 23
2008Base of the Pyramid Scaling Series Now Online in One Place
A quick announcement for readers who only caught bits and pieces of the sector scaling series we ran last week and others who just want to see all of the commentary in one place - we recently packaged all of the series in PDF format and posted it in our resources section. For those who...
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Wednesday
May 21
2008Guest Post: Local Innovation And Enterprise – The L-RAMP Model
Guest blogger Arun Sharma is Scouting Lead for Innovations at the Lemelson Recognition and Mentoring Program (L-RAMP). He is also a writer for L-RAMP Blog, which explores trends in social enterprise, innovation, technology and poverty alleviation. By Arun Sharma Meet Dr. Venkata...
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Tuesday
May 20
2008Telling Stories Over Stats: The S.E.VEN Film Competition
Stephen J. Gould once called humans “the primates who tell stories.” Stories are part of how we transfer culture, they are a device through which we shape our identity and relationship to the world - in the development community, they are a way to get people to act. Stories help...
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Thursday
May 15
2008Guest Post: John Paul Responds to Al Hammond
Guest blogger John Paul is a Co-Founder and former Managing Editor of Nextbillion.net. He is currently finishing up his MBA at Cornell University, where he has focused on private-sector solutions to global poverty with the school’s Center for Sustainable Global EnterpriseIn this post,...
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Thursday
May 15
2008Guest Post: The Transformative Sector Approach in Latin America
Guest blogger Emily Fintel is Regional Representative for Strategic Initiatives at Fundaci?n AVINA, one of the largest private foundations in Latin America. AVINA partners with civil society and business leaders to promote sustainable development through a network of twenty-one offices in...
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Wednesday
May 14
2008Guest Post: Taking the BoP Movement To The Next Level
Guest blogger Sagar Gubbi is a technology graduate based in Bangalore with a deep interest in social and environmental sectors in India. He maintains a popular social entrepreneurship blog on Social Edge, and he is the co-founder of ’EcoForge’, an investment advisory and consulting firm...
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Tuesday
May 13
2008Guest Post: Show Me the Income
Guest blogger Ryan Gunderson writes about sustainable, scalable solutions to end global poverty on his Riches For Good blog. A finance professional with an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and seven years of Fortune 500 experience, Ryan is transitioning to...
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Monday
May 12
2008Guest Post: Brian Trelstad Responds to Al Hammond
Guest blogger Brian Trelstad is the Chief Investment Officer of Acumen Fund. Before joining Acumen Fund, Brian spent four years at McKinsey as a consultant in the healthcare and non-profit practices and as an editor of the McKinsey Quarterly. Prior to McKinsey, he worked as a case writer at...
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