Articles by Rob Katz
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Wednesday
April 11
2007Intel’s World Ahead Program – Event Today in DC
Sorry for the late notice, but if you don’t have lunch plans today and are in or around Washington, try to swing over to DuPont Circle for what promises to be a fascinating talk. Jeffery Galinovsky (of Intel’s Emerging Markets Platform Group) will present World Ahead, an Intel program...
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Tuesday
April 10
2007BOP Job Announcement – WRI and NextBillion
WRI’s Development Through Enterprise team (also known as the NextBillion staff) has an immediate opening for a full-time, paid intern.? This position will be responsible for research and writing assignments documenting the intersection between business and development.? As you know, we...
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Monday
April 9
2007News Roundup: Good Capital and The $2000 Car
An assortment of BOP-related news stories came out over the weekend (or over the last week or so).? Some are longer than others - particularly well-written are the two Forbes stories on Good Capital and Tata Motors. First, my friend Kevin Jones was profiled in Forbes late last week.? Kevin,...
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Thursday
April 5
2007New Blogger Joins NextBillion.net Team: Tayo Akinyemi
The NextBillion.net team is happy to welcome Tayo Akinyemi as our newest Staff Writer.? Tayo is a soon-to-be MBA with domestic and international experience working with nonprofits, for-profit companies, and start ups. She has hands-on knowledge in the areas of direct mail marketing, event...
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Tuesday
April 3
2007Design for the Other 90 Percent
Sunday’s New York Times featured an extra-large insert on design.? Most of the articles therein dealt with uber-modern furniture, clothes I would never dream of wearing, chic buildings on the Upper West Side, etc.? Not my speed.As I leafed through it anyway (it was a lazy, rainy Monday...
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Friday
March 30
2007Behind the Scenes at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
Kevin Jones is a principal with Good Capital. He has extensive entrepreneurial and private investment experience in a range of technology and social enterprises. Kevin has also been a columnist for Forbes and Business 2.0. He attended this week?s Skoll World Forum on Social...
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Wednesday
March 28
2007International Private Enterprise Group – DC – March Meeting
The March meeting of DC’s International Private Enterprise Group is tomorrow, March 29.? We’ll be meeting upstairs at Zorba’s Cafe in DuPont Circle (map) at 6:00 - we have the whole space reserved, so it should be a good space to hear speakers while having a bite to eat.This...
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Tuesday
March 27
2007Interview With a P2P Lender: Kiva.org
The innovative peer-to-peer microlending site Kiva.org received a new round of PR today when Nicholas Kristof featured the site in his New York Times column.? Check out an excerpt at the NB Newsroom or Times Select for the full column (subscription required).? Readers have also been chiming in...
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