-
Accessing Finance: Old Challenges, New Solutions
This is the second in a series of interviews with Simon Winter, TechnoServe’s Senior Vice President of Development. This interview explores impediments small and growing business face in accessing capital, the limits of microfinance and the strong potential for angel investing models and networks in emerging markets.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Write Effectively: NextBillion Case Writing Competition Webinar
As part of the NextBillion Case Competition, we are offering an interactive webinar on How to Write Effective Business Cases. It will short, sweet, and full of useful pointers that will catapult you to the $1000 1st place cash prize. If not, it will make you a better writer and communicator anyway.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Motivating MNCs to Engage BoP as Consumers and Producers
At the Net Impact Conference this past weekend, I was reminded that, by enlarge, multinational companies (MNCs) may have the interest in the BoP, but those with a deep understanding of their customers and how they live are still in very much in the minority. Dileepan Siva, Senior Manager for the Synergos Institute, offered some solutions.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
After ’07-’08 Crisis, A New Focus on Food Security, Sustainable Solutions
This is the first in a series of interviews with Simon Winter, TechnoServe’s Senior Vice President of Development. This interview explores the state of global food security initiatives, as well as identifying opportunities private firms can play in sustainable solutions for enhancing food quality and nutrition levels for BoP consumers.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
NextThought Monday: Social Enterprise on the Cover of the Economist
No, not this week and probably not next week either. But in five years, it’s going to happen. The Economist, however, did recently run an article titled: "Companies Aren’t Charities," which argues that the role of a company in developing economies should be confined to pursuing profit while abiding by the rules and a solid moral compass.
- Categories
- Education, Social Enterprise
-
Net Impact: Ways to Profit From Social Change
"The economy is now valuing social outcomes," says Jason Saul CEO of Mission Measurement LLC. So how do we go about creating business strategies for social change? Saul shares a powerful formula during Net Impact conference.
- Categories
- Education
-
Net Impact: Getting to Profit in Africa’s BoP
S.C. Johnson & Son’s venture to supply cleaning products to entrepreneurs for sanitizing public bathrooms in largely slum areas of Mathare, Kenya, (with the goal of reducing sanitation-remedied ailments like diarrhea), sounds like a perfect blueprint for a sustainable BoP business. But after more than two years, it’s still not profitable.
- Categories
- Impact Assessment
-
Friday Roundup – 10/29/10: Happy Birthday, Agora Partnerships
Agora Partnerships, a pioneer in our industry, celebrated its fifth anniversary this week in New York City. I was fortunate to attend a reception where founders, directors, friends and supporters discussed what’s next for the organization.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
