Articles by Rob Katz
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Wednesday
September 12
2007Why the BoP Conference Was Worth It
I’m back in DC after three very full days at the Business With Four Billion BoP conference in Michigan. First of all, let me assure you that I’ll have session summaries written and posted as soon as possible - in the mean time, be sure to check out Nicole Goldin’s live-blogging...
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Monday
September 10
2007Business With Four Billion Conference – Day 1
I’m in Ann Arbor, Michigan for the “Business With Four Billion” conference - the first major “base of the pyramid” meeting since WRI convened the “Eradicating Poverty Through Profit” conference in December, 2004.? On a macro level, my impressions from day one...
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Friday
September 7
2007Blogging from the Business to Four Billion Conference
Al Hammond, Virginia Barreiro and I are heading to Michigan this weekend for the big “Business to Four Billion” conference in Ann Arbor.? Al will be keynoting on Sunday night at dinner, and I’m moderating a panel on Monday morning -- so, shameless self-promotion - check us out!...
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Wednesday
September 5
2007New Paper: Advancing the “Base of the Pyramid” Debate
In the wake of last week’s discussion of Professor Anand Jaiswal’s new paper, I received a note from Professor Nancy E. Landrum from the University of Arkansas-Little Rock.? Her new paper, Advancing the ’Base of the Pyramid’ Debate (PDF), was first published this past May in...
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Saturday
September 1
2007GrameenPhone Obsolete? Fast Company Says Yes
Via Aman Bhandari’s Technology, Health, and Development Blog, a fascinating take on the 10th anniversary of the GrameenPhone program from Fast Company magazine: But as it turns out, the legend is far out of date. The proliferation and democratization of technology has bested the economics...
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Friday
August 31
2007New Paper: “Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid – An Alternate Perspective”
If you plan to take Labor Day weekend to brush up on BOP reading (perhaps in advance of next week’s “Business to Four Billion” conference), then you’re in luck. Naturally, I’ll point curious readers to our Resources page, and also to the recent papers by Aneel Karnani (a...
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Wednesday
August 22
2007Event: Ashoka’s Arthur Wood on Alternative Development Finance
Pablo pointed me to this event, which will be held tomorrow in DC:Top Down, Bottom Up: Searching for New Ways of Financing DevelopmentAugust 23, 7:00-8:30 p.m. The Center for Global Development. 3rd Floor, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington DC The funding of international...
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Monday
August 20
2007Conference Report – Innovation for the Third Sector
Guest blogger Ben Powell is Managing Partner of Agora Partnerships. Last week, he traveled to Sao Paolo, Brazil, to attend Innovation for the Third Sector: Sustainability and Social Impact, and filed this report. Read below for Ben’s observations of the rapidly growing Latin American social...
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