Articles by Martin Herrndorf
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Tuesday
November 8
2011“Hot” and “Bright” Business Models: Bringing Energy to the BoP
’We have technology - we just need a business model’ is the rallying cry for a whole lot of promising BoP projects. Many of these look good, but still face major difficulties in getting their products in the hands of people, and getting the people (or someone else) to pay for it. The "Energize the BoP!" business model generator provides support.
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Guest Articles
Thursday
September 29
2011Calling Africa’s Social Entrepreneurs
Africa may seem to be a bit lost on the inclusive-market-social-entrepreneurship-map. Most big MFI funds have only small portfolios in the area, and the BIG success stories cited are often from India. But there’s a LOT going on. A team from Queen’s University has set out to find out how much, what, and where - and will make their insights public.
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- Social Enterprise
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Thursday
September 22
2011All that Glitters is Good?
In the old and dusty-yet-safe world of development aid, things were easy: Profit was at best a necessary evil of the private sector, at worst a sign that the poor were exploited as cheap labour or consumers. In the new world of impact investing and "BoP strategies", things become more entangled.
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- Impact Assessment
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Wednesday
August 31
2011How to Reach Out to Rural India? Practitioners and Academics In Dialogue
There is no shortage of ideas, and some would even say no shortage of products, that would help the rural poor to improve their social and economic situation. But distribution remains a key challenge. At the oikos swiss Practitioner Day 2011, young scholars, local experts and practitioners from several companies discussed how to tackle the issue.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Monday
August 22
2011NexThought Monday: Coming 2011, An India Without Corruption?
India is in uproar: a broad citizen movement lead by charismatic Anna Hazare pushes for strong anti-corruption measures. As shop-keepers post support messages and business school students skip meals, the country wonders: Will the measures, called ?Lokpal," pass? And will the curb the addiction of the country?s civil servants to quick money?
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Monday
July 25
2011NexThought Monday: Are We Measuring? Too Much?
’Impact assessment’ has become a mantra across much of the social entrepreneurship and impact investing scene. Are we measuring enough? The right thing? In the right way? Or, maybe... are we measuring too much?
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- Impact Assessment
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Guest Articles
Thursday
June 2
2011Tough Love for Impact Investors – the Europe Session at SOCAP
Social investors are on the hunt for "investable" social enterprises to fill their "deal pipeline." But do all these enterprises want (and need) investment? In the SOCAP/Europe session on "How to Fill the Deal Pipeline in Europe: Changing our Models to Fit the Continent," staff from Ashoka and the Schwab Foundation searched for answers
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- Social Enterprise, Uncategorized
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- impact investing
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Wednesday
June 1
2011What Does It Take to Build a Market? (An India Session @ SOCAP Europe)
How big can impact investing become? When looking for an answer (and hoping to find an encouraging one), it?s best examine a big country - like India. That’s precisely what did McKinsey and Omidyar Network did. The two organizations presented a BoP market study at SOCAP/Europe revealing a bullish outlook despite latent demand.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
