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Strategy in a Difficult Retail Market
Noted economist and consulting editor for The Economic Times, Swaminathan Aiyar has written an interesting article on strategy in retail markets.Aiyar argues that as Mukesh Ambani (one of the wealthiest people in the world), who is driving Reliance Industries? foray into retail, could learn...
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Microsoft: Enabling Social and Economic Development in Digital Age
Yesterday, I attended “Unlimited Potential: Connecting the Next Five Billion,” a presentation organized by SID-Washington’s Corporate Responsibility Workgroup, USAID’s Global Development Alliance, DAI and Georgetown University’s Mortara Center for International Studies....
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“Next Billion” Thinking and Big Business
Guest blogger Bill Kramer was, until recently, WRI?s Director of Education and Training for the Markets & Enterprise Program, and Deputy Director of Development Through Enterprise. He now runs Global Challenge Network, an executive education and training company. His email is...
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Guest Post: Coping With Abundance
Guest blogger Bill Kramer was, until recently, WRI?s Director of Education and Training for the Markets & Enterprise Program, and? Deputy Director of Development Through Enterprise.? He now runs Global Challenge Network, an executive education and training company. His email is...
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Jobs – Triple Jump – Investment and Senior Investment Officers
Triple Jump currently is hiring for two positions: Investment Officer and Senior Investment Officer. Both positions are based in Amsterdam, and are initially for one year.Triple Jump is a fund management company specializing in managing funds that invest in financial institutions offering...
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“Filling the Finance Gap” The Clinton Global Initiative’s Poverty Alleviation Working Group Session
How do we get more capital to the people who want to start their own SMEs? It is difficult to make a case for this “missing middle.” NextBillion has identified this problem in the past, and it seems like now the issue is beginning to unfold in the development debate: the Clinton...
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Job – Scojo Partner Franchise Manager
Scojo Foundation requires an individual to manage the tremendous global growth opportunities within its Franchise Partner Channel.The Franchise Partner Manager will be responsible for developing, managing, and ensuring successful relationships with potential and existing international...
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Reflections on: ?World?s Slum Dwellers: More Like Us Than We Think?
Neal Peirce wrote an article following the Bellagio summit in August expressing great enthusiasm for the potential that grassroots collective action and micro financing tools have for producing changes in urban slums. The thing that struck me most about Peirce?s article was his emphasis on...
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