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Nitin Rao
MIT Sloan School of Management

Nitin Rao os a former Staff Writer for NextBillion.net and currently MBA Candidate at the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Nitin is an alumnus of the National Institute of Technology – Karnataka – Surathkal, (2008) and the StartingBloc Fellowship (London Business School, 2007). He has deferred an MBA admit at the MIT Sloan School of Management to join the business development team at SKS Microfinance in Hyderabad, India.

Nitin’s interests lie at the intersection of economics, business and development. He is passionate about education for low-income communities. He has been involved in strategy for The Spark Group, an MIT/Yale education startup. He has written papers on sustainable investments in Indian education accepted by MIT International Review and the Harvard Project for Asian & International Relations Harvard On-Campus Conference, and been recently selected to participate in the 38th St. Gallen Symposiumin Switzerland.

Nitin is the founder of Engineers for Social Impact, a unique fellowship program to connect top engineering talent to the most credible social enterprises that drive market-based solutions to development. He is also the founder of Let Me Know, an innovative portal for youth opportunities in India.

Articles by Nitin Rao

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    Micro-loans and Macro-expectations

    Via NextBillion ally Reuben Abraham, I was pointed to James Surowiecki’s recent article, What Microloans Miss in The New Yorker.Surowiecki points out that while microfinance does a tremendous amount of good, there are also real limits to what it can accomplish. With over $25 billions of...

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    Technology Diffusion: A Unique and Unexplored Challenge

    Soon after we explored the role of Technology in BoP success, Derek pointed me to an interesting article in The Economist: Technology in emerging economies. The article makes a distinction between technology adoption and technology diffusion -- and argues that emerging economies are better at...

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    Technology: A Key to BoP Success?

    What do Aravind Eye Care, d.light design, Ekgaon Technologies, ITC’s e-Choupal, and the much awaited Tata Nano have in common? New market segments? Radically new paradigms?Technology?As the BoP discussion moves from whether-to-invest to where-to-invest, there is an increasing need to...

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    Social-Impact Fellowship in Hyderabad

    Deadline: April 26, 2008From the Social-Impact website and Via ThinkChange India:Social-Impact is a new international professional development program. Their goal is to accelerate growth and increase impact of social entrepreneurs? projects and/or organizations. Social-Impact?s programme...

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    Job: Vice-President – Sales, India at d.light design

    Position: Vice-President, SalesLocation: IndiaOrganization: The goal of d.light design is simple ? to eradicate kerosene lanterns from the face of the earth. To do this it will become the market leader in delivering safe and affordable lighting solutions to over 1.6 billion people who...

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    Global Action, Local Responsibility: Is Development Through Enterprise a Western-Only Concept?

    This year’s topic for the St. Gallen’s Symposium set me thinking...Global Capitalism, Local ValuesThere has been much discussion about Bill Gates’ keynote address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he pushed for “a creative capitalism” that uses market forces to...

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    Jobs at Intellecap

    Intellecap recently e-mailed us about a couple of interesting job opportunities.About Intellecap:Intellecap is a leading consulting firm focused on capital advisory and innovations for the inclusive finance space, endeavoring to createand deliver mainstream, profitable solutions to address...

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    Engineers for Social Impact

    As Moses pointed out last week, a good talent strategy is key to the success of “base of the pyramid"? enterprises.A few months back, I had blogged about my idea to bring top talent into the development sector. We are excited to announce the launch of Engineers for Social Impact - a...

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