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Lessons from Granada: How MBA Students Can Help
The Latin American-focused conferences of the past weeks have finally come to an end. I became engaged in several discussions on how to increase MBA participation in this growing industry.
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NSEF: A Net Impact for India?
National Social Entrepreneurship Forum plans to open centers of excellence in campuses all across the country to promote social entrepreneurship amongst the Indian youth
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The Future of NextBillion
A few months ago, the managing partners of NextBillion (Acumen Fund, WRI, and WDI) met in New York for a strategy meeting on the future of NextBillion. Our team came up with an initial plan for the next two years with the overall goal to increase readership, involvement, and the brand equity of NextBillion.
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Educational Experiences As If Impact is the Intent and Scale Matters
At the NCIIA’s annual conference, I spent time with Julia Novy-Hildesly, Executive Director of the Lemelson Foundation discussing the global innovation landscape and where American students fit in. In a changing world, we need a new model to join human capital at universities with human need at the base of the pyramid.
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Rural Finance in C?te d?Ivoire
After seven years working in the financial-sector, I joined TechnoServe in C?te d’Ivoire in September 2009 as a short-term volunteer consultant and later as an independent contractor, both positions in support of the Cocoa Livelihoods Program (CLP). My goal was to develop a system to provide farm inputs on credit to small cocoa farmers.
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R.I.P. Social Ventures?
"How do you know when to pull the plug on your idea?" That’s the question Kiwanja.net’s Ken Banks posed to me after swapping stories one afternoon about our respective startup organizations. Implementing ideas demands a physical and emotional investment, and once you’ve put so much into it, it becomes hard to know when to throw in the towel.
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Online Microfinance Loan Guarantees: The Model of United Prosperity
United Prosperity is a young non-profit that turns social investors into social guarantors through an ingenious tweak to the standard P2P microfinance model. This approach increases the capital invested and can build self sufficiency in the local economy by creating formal relationships between MFIs and commercial banks.
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Inventors and Innovators – Aligned with the Poor
I spent the latter part of the week at the annual conference of the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) in San Francisco. In this post I’ll highlight some of the most interesting teams and trends - then I hope to get into the question of the role of American engineers in base of the pyramid innovation.
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