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Watch the Replay of Our Google+ Hangout with Erik Simanis
Our next Google+ Hangout will feature Erik Simanis, head of the Emerging and Frontier Markets Initiative at Cornell University, a collaboration between Entrepreneurship at Cornell and the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. Simanis has written extensively on the future of base of the pyramid business practices.
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‘Aha Moments’ in the Business Model Process: FIELD at the Aspen Institute explores how to take pilot programs to products
If you work at a nonprofit, you probably know this story: You conduct a pilot program. The results are strong. The pilot funding ends. Then you scramble to find funding to keep the program going. How can you write a happy ending to this story? FIELD at the Aspen Institute explored this question during the last phase of their Asset Building through Credit Pilot. Joyce Klein and Luz Gomez discuss what they found.
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Three Keys to Unlocking Microinsurance’s Potential: The sector is growing – here’s how it can grow faster
Although microinsurance has grown in the shadow of flagship microfinance products like microcredit, it has slowly established itself as a dominant figure in inclusive finance. Yet it is still far from achieving its full potential, with challenges ranging from low coverage rates to lack of customer trust and limited cash-flows. Lisa Chassin of MicroSave outlines key practices that could boost the sector’s growth.
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The Limits of Tiered Pricing (Part 2): Harvard’s Suerie Moon says policy tweaks could help ensure access to medicine
In Part 2 of a two-part post, Harvard’s Suerie Moon suggests four ways tiered-pricing policies for pharmaceuticals might be improved in the short-to-medium term, and also highlights some alternatives – including rewarding innovation.
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Five Digital Payment Innovations with the Potential to Transform Development: Visa and NetHope grant recipients illustrate the power of digital payments
Development organizations have begun to embrace digital payments in areas that range from health and education, to food security and poverty alleviation. Visa is working with NetHope to help expand the impact of organizations working in these areas, by supporting programs that utilize electronic transfers and/or payments. These five grant recipients show how digital payments can enhance development and relief efforts.
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NexThought Monday – The Limits of Tiered Pricing in Improving Access to Medicine: Harvard’s Suerie Moon looks at theoretical and empirical drawbacks
In the first of a two-part post, the author says tiered pricing is feasible when markets are separable and when the seller exerts significant power over pricing, such as when there is limited or no competition due to patent protection, data exclusivity or other barriers to market entry. But there are several reasons tiered pricing can be both ethically and practically problematic for pharmaceuticals.
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A Swipe Toward Inclusion: (With video) PagPop connects merchants and low-income consumers
PagPop in Brazil has developed card reader hardware that attaches to Android and IOS-based smartphones, as well as applications for low tech phones, targeting low-income consumers and merchants. It has grown from about 4,000 clients to 110,000 clients, and has aspirations to reach 300,000 clients in the next two years.
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Four Insights from Four Investors: Practitioners of impact and angel investing share their views
As our Impact Investing Insights series concludes, we’ve compiled the views of four practitioners on topics like impact assessment, crowdfunding, and the advantages of socially responsible investing. You can read excerpts here, or check out the embedded video for their full perspectives.
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