Articles by Rob Katz
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Wednesday
September 6
2006News Roundup: Much Ado About India
The BOP business news from India brings readers updates on three firms whose names ought to ring a bell - Arvind, Hindustan Lever, and ITC. All three were featured in “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid” and have been the subject of case studies, speeches, articles, and much...
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Tuesday
September 5
2006Is Open Source Hardware An Answer?
You have probably heard of Open Source Software - software developed by hackers and released into the community under licenses that freely allow copying and modification. Linux is a good example.David Rowe, an engineer from Adelaide, South Australia and a small team of hackers around the...
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Thursday
August 31
2006Village: Play the World of Social Enterprise
What do you get when you mix SimCity with social entrepreneurship? Village, a multiplayer strategy game that puts the BOP hypothesis to work. According to the game?s web site, Village?s mission is...to let players practice building sustainable villages for developing nations using...
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Thursday
August 31
2006Prahalad Responds to “Mirage at the Bottom of the Pyramid”
Aneel Karnani posted his paper, “Mirage at the Bottom of the Pyramid,” to NextBillion.net ten days ago, setting off a bit of a firestorm among commenters on-site. In an effort to hear both sides of the argument, the editors contacted C.K. Prahalad and invited him to submit a response...
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Wednesday
August 30
2006Chinese Stores Sell Phone Time
We’ve talked a lot on NextBillion about the selling and re-selling of mobile phone minutes, whether its the phone ladies of Grameen Telecom or the sari-sari street merchants of Smart Communications. Now Kevin Kelly (of Wired Magazine and Whole Earth Catalog fame) points us to a cool...
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Tuesday
August 29
2006Minipreneurs: Do BOP Entrepreneurs Deserve the Hype?
The entrepreneurial bandwagon is starting to feel a little full. Everyone from development experts to market research firms seems to be falling over themselves to hail the resourceful small-scale entrepreneur as a savior of poor communities everywhere. Even the uber-hip Trendwatching web site...
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Monday
August 28
2006Guest Post: Community Based Enterprise Development
This post was written by Vincent Ricasio, a retired investment banker currently working on microfranchising and other community development strategies at New York University. Contact Vincent using the comment field below to discuss his Community Based Enterprise Development concept. Is it...
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Monday
August 28
2006Tomorrow’s Company
What will tomorrow?s companies look like? What impact, if any, will innovation blowback have? PSDBlog?s Michael Jarvis points to a new effort, called Tomorrow?s Global Company, that attempts to arrive at some answers: Now, a UK-based think tank, Tomorrow?s Company, has teamed with...
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