Articles by Rob Katz
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Wednesday
October 8
2008Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship Launches
Do we need another Fellows program?? That was my initial thought when I first heard of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship and its related Legatum Fellows program.? After all, there are so many programs dedicated to identifying and supporting existing or budding social...
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Wednesday
October 1
2008Guest Post: Exploring the Food-Fuel Relationship in Rural Development
Guest blogger Peter Moers is economist and the regional coordinator for the Social Trade Organization in Central America. He has worked in several countries in Central America, West Africa and in The Netherlands in small enterprise, cooperative, rural and local economic development. He believes...
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Monday
September 29
2008Guest Post: Niti Bhan from the Helsinki BoP Conference – Speaker Insights
Guest blogger Niti Bhan has been developing and implementing new market strategies for both the developed and developing world for almost two decades. An established author and speaker, her research interests include the challenge of designing effective business and transaction models intended...
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Sunday
September 28
2008Guest Post: Niti Bhan from the Helsinki Bottom of the Pyramid Conference
Guest blogger Niti Bhan has been developing and implementing new market strategies for both the developed and developing world for almost two decades. An established author and speaker, her research interests include the challenge of designing effective business and transaction models intended...
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Friday
September 26
2008Events in NextBillion’s Community
In addition to the Social Capital Markets conference, there are a number of interesting events covering base of the pyramid-related topics happening in the coming weeks and months.? A quick overview: Sustainable Innovations at the Bottom of the Pyramid, September 26-27, Helsinki, Finland -...
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Thursday
September 25
2008NextBillion at the Social Capital Markets Conference Next Month
Like Tony Bennett, I once left (a bit of) my heart in San Francisco.? That was in 2004, at Eradicating Poverty Through Profit, the first major conference to discuss market-based approaches to poverty alleviation ? the “bottom of the pyramid” idea.? Now, nearly four years later, I...
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Friday
September 19
2008Job: Program Officer, Skoll Foundation
Position: Program Officer Location: San Francisco, California Organization: The Skoll Foundation was established in 1999 by eBay’s first president, Jeff Skoll, who serves as our founder and chairman. The foundation’s innovative approach to philanthropy is based on the belief that...
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Thursday
September 18
2008Pop!Tech Fellows Focus on Development Through Enterprise
Andrew Zolli is at it again.? On Tuesday, Zolli’s Pop!Tech announced its inaugural class of Social Innovation Fellows.? Biased as I am towards all things “base of the pyramid", I immediately browsed through the list of Fellows with my BoP filter on.? By my count, 7 of the 16...
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