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PhD Thesis Takes the Pulse of Base of the Pyramid Businesses
Martin Klein, PhD from the Rotterdam School of Management, examines common postulates of what it means to work at the BoP level thanks to an extensive survey of 143 BoP firms working in 105 countries. He explains how some challenges may vary throughout the lifetime of a BoP business as well as the inherent tensions in managing BoP businesses.
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The Working Capital Loan Gap in India
I arrived back to the cozy office of Global Easy Water Products (GEWP) with Pratyush Pandey, the company?s Managing Director, after a long day of visiting farmers on the outskirts of Aurangabad, Maharashtra. These farmers were customers of GEWP?s ?KB Drip? irrigation products. After countless visits with GEWP...
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Reflections on ’Go’: Big Red MicroCapital
BRM MicroCapital is a "student-run organization that spurs microenterprise development by assisting self-employed individuals to reach their business goals." Several Johnson School students, now newly minted alums-Andrea Findley, Taryn Goodman, Ryan Kelley, Kandea Mosley, and Mike Pezone-spent more than a year bringing this concept to life.
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Be Inspired: Echoing Green Announces Its 2009 Fellows
SKS Microfinance, GreenMango, PharmaSecure, Mobile Metrix and One Acre Fund may sound like familiar names to NextBillion readers and those that follow the "goings on" in this base of the pyramid space. They have something in common: strong and commited leaders who were supported by Echoing Green at some point. 2009 Fellows were announced today...
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Online Conference: The Role of the Private Sector in Poverty Alleviation at the Base of the Pyramid
NextBillion announces a unique opportunity for our community to participate in a global online conference called ?The Role of the Private Sector in Poverty Alleviation at the Base of the Pyramid? hosted by Base of the Pyramid expert Monica Touesnard.
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Notes on the State of the “Base de la Pir?mide” Movement in Spain and Latin America
I’ve been on the road for the last two weeks having conversations that allowed me to "take the pulse"of the base of the pyramid movement in Spain and Latin America. A few notes and afterthoughts follow...
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Cornell Global Forum: What Gets Measured Gets Done
Although its purpose is explicitly action-oriented?the mission of the Forum is to accelerate the degree to which clean tech companies and BoP companies incubate clean technology at the BoP?I couldn’t wrap my head around how another big, centrally-planned talk shop ensconced in a tony New York locale could possibly do anything meaningful...
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Cornell Global Forum: BoP Inclusion Meets Environmental Sustainability
Rather than feeling exhausted after a 2 ? day conference on "The Great Convergence", I felt energized and enthusiastic about what appears to be a certain maturation or "coming of age" of this space. The idea that we cannot achieve inclusion of the BoP if we don’t consider how to do so with that environmental sustainability, and vice-versa...
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