Articles by Rob Katz
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Thursday
January 17
2008Two New Papers Explore Base of the Pyramid Concept
Two new papers exploring the ’base of the pyramid’ concept crossed my desk recently. We posted both of them to the Newsroom, but they also merit a slightly longer discussion. First, Jean-Louis Warnholz of the University of Oxford’s Queen Elizabeth House has a new working paper...
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Wednesday
January 16
2008Job Posting: Housing/Land Tenure Consultant, International Finance Corporation
Position: Consulting Assignment Location: Brazil Organization: The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, promotes open and competitive markets in developing countries. IFC supports sustainable private sector companies and other...
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Tuesday
January 15
2008Job Posting: Managing Director, Sustainable Supply Chain Management Center
Position: Managing Director, Sustainable Supply Chain Management CenterLocation: Eugene, OregonOrganization: Lundquist College of Business, University of OregonJob Description: The Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) Center will be a cornerstone of the Lundquist College of...
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Tuesday
January 15
2008Business Ethics at the Base of the Pyramid
Guest blogger Bill Kramer is principal of The Global Challenge Network, LLC, an executive education and training company. From 2001 through mid-2007, he worked on pro-poor business strategies with WRI. Previously, Bill founded a non-profit focusing on the relationship of knowledge to economic...
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Wednesday
January 9
2008P.K. Sethi, Inventor of Jaipur Foot, Remembered
Yesterday, as I rode the metro home from work, I browsed through the obituaries section, as is my daily habit.? While reading the newspaper, however, I came across a news obituary relevant to my work, and to NextBillion.net.? I had not heard, but P.K. Sethi - an Indian surgeon and the mind...
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Wednesday
January 9
2008Will 2008 Be The Year of ’Next Billion’ or ’Bottom Billion’?
What’s in a name, a brand, a catchphrase? In some sense, everything. But a brand/name/phrase is only as good as the content behind it. So when U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon recently declared 2008 to be “the year of the ’bottom billion’,” I paid attention - after...
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Monday
January 7
2008Intel and the OLPC: A Conflict Waiting to Happen
Guest blogger Bill Kramer is principal of The Global Challenge Network, LLC, an executive education and training company. From 2001 through mid-2007, he worked on pro-poor business strategies with WRI. Previously, Bill founded a non-profit focusing on the relationship of knowledge to economic...
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Thursday
January 3
2008What’s in a Buzzword: Use and Misuse of “Bottom of the Pyramid”
Today, I read with interest an article from the Business Standard entitled “TutorVista Readies Indian Rollout; To Raise $15m to Address Bottom of the Pyramid.” Perfect for the NextBillion Newsroom, right? Perhaps not. TutorVista, a leading online education firm, matches...
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