Articles by Tayo Akinyemi
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Saturday
October 27
2007Colorado State’s Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise Program
"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.? -- Thomas Edison If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the Global Social Enterprise Program at Colorado State University’s School of Business.? When I applied to the Johnson...
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Tuesday
July 31
2007BoP, Geopolitics, and Giving the People What They Need
Editor’s note: Tayo Akinyemi will be starting the MBA program at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management this fall. I?m leaving for business school today, so this will be my last post on NextBillion.net for awhile. Although I didn?t answer all of my twenty questions (and...
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Monday
July 2
2007Two New African Venture Funds
Two new funds to facilitate private sector development in Africa are being raised as we speak.The first, the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund, is the result of a Commission for Africa recommendation. It seeks to ?catalyze the private sector to innovate and find profitable ways of improving...
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Monday
June 25
2007Upending the Pyramid: Measuring Success at the BoP
I just finished reading Freakonomics, the NY Times Bestseller written by ?rogue economist? Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner. It?s about using economic thinking and data analysis to answer practical questions and challenge conventional wisdom. Truly, there is nothing I love...
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Friday
June 22
2007Entrepreneurialization of Government
Something that has consistently bothered me since I began exploring the “business for social good” continuum is the notion (implied, but not often stated), that the government has been usurped as the primary provider of public goods. Government has failed and private enterprise must...
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Tuesday
June 19
2007The Delight of d.light Design
I have a chronic habit of seeking out cool people. Can?t help it; it?s just what I do. A few months ago, I asked one of my friends, a Stanford Graduate School of Business grad, to e-introduce me to a then second year student. We exchanged ideas and information, a process that always...
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Wednesday
May 30
2007Domestic BoP: Models for Addressing Underserved Markets
The authors of Untapped: Creating Value in Underserved Markets outline strategies for accessing both domestic and international BoP markets. More specifically, they examine the ways in which companies can engage with “underserved markets” using five ?success factors? that they...
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Sunday
May 20
2007How Can Development Agencies Support Economic Development at the BoP?
I had spent a lot of time trying to figure out how best to work at the base of the pyramid, even before I knew what BoP was. In 2003, I moved to Nigeria to pursue a career in international development, focusing on democracy and governance. Nearly two years of this work taught me that...
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