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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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    Sattva: Raising Equilibrium in Social Change

    Every month in Bangalore, a team of volunteers ? many from the IT industry - collaborate to prepare Sattva, a newsletter on social innovation. These are members of a non-profit consulting firm I Think I Have A Solution (ITIHAS) The vision at Sattva is:To be an effective platform for the...

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    Solutions That Sustain

    Outlook magazine recently profiled a new breed of social entrepreneurs in India (The article: The Spirit of Ants, can be read for free once an account is created at Outlookindia.com)When I last wrote about a micro financier role in partnering for financial literacy, I did not know that Chetna...

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    Talent Strategy for NextBillion Enterprises

    On NextBillion.net, we have discussed business models, strategies, and funding for successful enterprises aimed at the world?s poorest citizens. Another critical issue is getting the right talent.Sure, you are catering to the Next Billion people. Sure, you have unprecedented hype - and...

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    Coincidence or Cross-Subsidy?

    Here is an interesting case of serendipity where a product designed for a developing market has found application in a bigger and more mature market albeit in a niche space:For over a decade, Procter & Gamble has been distributing sachets of its PuR water purifying powder at cost in...

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    Tapan Parikh: Simple Innovations, Big Impact

    Tapan Parikh (left) has proved that innovations need not be as complex as they are made out to be. Often, simple ideas make the best impact. What makes Tapan different ? and Technology Review’s 2007 Humanitarian of the Year ? is that he saw in mobile phones an accessible opportunity for...

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    Mighty Light: Empowering Lives

    On NextBillion, we recently covered an editorial from Arun Maira of The Boston Consulting Group in India. Maira wrote that the organizations which will succeed in BOP markets will be those which don?t merely down-size existing products but invest in developing innovative business...

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    Global Institute for Social Innovation

    I recently had the opportunity to join 95 other StartingBloc Fellows from 25 countries for the first Global Institute for Social Innovation at London Business School. The Global Institute for Social Innovation is a 4-day long educational conference focusing on corporate social innovation, social...

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    $3000 Car: Role of Government

    After my post Small Car Activity and the article in the Independent criticizing the new venture, I received the following mail from a friend in Bangalore:The demand for automobiles is growing primarily because of the neglect by the government of metropolitan transport infrastructure, leading...

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