Articles by Rob Katz
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Friday
January 27
2006Malaria – From A to Z, at Long Last
Another ?in case you missed it? entry, this time about Tanzanian A to Z?s long-lasting malaria net enterprise mentioned in blog posts and activity capsules past. The nets ? as well as the underlying for-profit business model ? are featured in a nice column by the Guardian?s Jon...
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Wednesday
January 25
2006Show Me the Money – A Remittance Review
On the topic of ?in case you missed it?, Ethan Zuckerman of wonder-blog WorldChanging wrote a great piece on remittances back on January 12. It’s difficult to overstate the importance of remittance income to most African nations and many developing nations. Nworah cites a figure of...
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Friday
December 16
2005C.K. Prahalad Named a “Best Leader: Guru” by BusinessWeek
Along with colleague Stuart Hart, C.K Prahalad is widely thought of as a godfather of the base of the pyramid hypothesis. We’ve noted before that both Hart and Prahalad are garnering much-deserved recognition for their work in this field (full disclosure: C.K. Prahalad is a member of WRI’s...
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Wednesday
December 14
2005Global Social Benefit Incubator
I was reminded again this morning by PSD Blog of the Global Social Benefit Incubator, “an intensive two-week residential program that enables successful technology innovators to scale their endeavors and achieve sustainability.” The two-week in-residence program (July 29 - August...
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Tuesday
December 13
2005Cashless Transactions at the BOP: Peppercoin
What do your local Chinese restaurant?s delivery service and MIT?s advanced cryptography department have in common? The answer: Peppercoin, an innovative payment platform allowing consumers to use credit or debit cards for small transactions -- thus eliminating merchants? need for those...
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Thursday
December 1
2005Best Books 2005 – What’s on Your List?
You’re making your list; you’re checking it twice. And you’re not alone ? its time for everyone’s year-end best-of lists. I just finished browsing strategy-business? Best Business Books 2005, where coverage ranges from strategy to marketing to globalization. (Side note: which works are...
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Tuesday
November 29
2005Wall Street Take Heed – Here’s the Alternative (Exchange)
You may have noticed a recent upswing of news about small and medium sized enterprises, much of which has been picked up and discussed on NextBillion. Small local enterprise networks, mesofinance, small and large for-profit venture funds ? and now an Alternative Exchange. (Via Timbuktu...
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Monday
November 28
2005What’s in a Name: NextBillion – Fries or Future?
When our WRI team sat down to brainstorm a name for new web portal and community, it wasn?t evident at first that ?NextBillion? made sense. One colleague pulled the Big Mac card: NextBillion was too close to McDonald?s signature ?billions and billions served? tag line. Despite...
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