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BoP Narrative Essay Competition Announced
The 2009 BoP Narrative Competition has been created to help identify cutting-edge experiences of business innovation in underserved or marginalized communities. Winning submissions must clearly articulate a business challenge that an organization working in low-income communities is striving to overcome...
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The GSBI Video Blog, Part 5: Nik Kafka, from Teach a Man to Fish
Nik Kafka envisions revolutionizing rural education through the model promoted by his organization, Teach a Man to Fish. It incorporates school businesses as means to both teach critical productive skills to students and also produce income for schools to become self-sustaining.
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Platforms and Stuff
If you have not read the three recent and related posts by Francisco Mejia and Manuel Bueno please do. This post by me actually tries to add to the brain food they have supplied (thanks guys) but more likely just makes a muddle of their clear thinking.
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The GSBI Video Blog, Part 4: Manoj Sinha from Bihar, India
You’ve seen Manoj before in the pages of NextBillion.net. He’s co-founder and President of Husk Power Systems in India. Despite being fresh out of business school and Husk’s recent success in te fundraising circuit, he accepted the invitation to join the 2009 class of GSBI and has been able to squeeze a lot from the opportunity.
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The GSBI Video Blog, Part 3: Yugandhar Mandavkar from the State of Maharashtra, India
Through his organization, GRASP, Yugandhar Mandavkar is providing an alternative and sustainable solution for environmentally degraded areas where wood logs are the main fuel used for cooking purposes. Learn more about his model in this third installment of The GSBI Video Blog.
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The GSBI Video Blog, Part 2: Jason Shah from Cambridge, MA
The second part of The GSBI Video Blog features Jason Shah, a social entrepreneur whose venture seeks to use technology to decrease the income-related gap in educational quality found in the United States. Make sure to get up to speed and watch Part 1 of the series. Stay tuned for more coming this week.
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The GSBI Video Blog, Part 1: Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu from Nigeria
A year flew I am back in Santa Clara working with incredibly inspiring and committed entrepreneurs from around the globe. This week we’ll be running a special series of posts titled The GSBI Video Blog. Here’s our first installment with a remarkable Nigerian whose venture brings information to rural dwellers. Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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Seeing Eye to Eye? New Case Study with BoP Critic Aneel Karnani
BoP critic Aneel Karnani and I decided to put our energy into writing a case study on the topic of vision correction in the developing world. In the case study, we looked at two enterprises - Essilor and VisionSpring - that are trying to address global uncorrected refractive error by selling eyeglasses.
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