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Innovate or Die
’Innovate or die’ is the challenge issued by the pedal-powered machine contest sponsored by Google and Specialized Bicycle Components. All 102 inventions are based on basic bicycle mechanics; entries range from a pedal-powered tennis ball launcher to the grand prize-winning invention,...
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Bill Gates Calls for Capitalism That Serves the Poor
In a speech at Davos today, Bill Gates called for a more inclusive capitalism that “would have a twin mission: making profits and also improving lives for those who don’t fully benefit from market forces.” That is a major milestone in the evolving thinking of perhaps the most...
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Spotlighting “Creative Capitalism:” It Is What You See
Today, Bill Gates’ speech at Davos has thrown the spotlight on “creative capitalism” and an emerging groundswell of interest in market-based solutions and business models that can drive positive social and environmental change. The excitement around these ideas to create...
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Srijan Microfinance Business Plan Competition 2008
Intellecap in partnership with Aavishkaar Goodwell and The Financial Express has announced the launch of the Srijan Microfinance Business Plan Competition 2008. Deadline: March 15, 2008Srijan (meaning creation in English) is a search for entrepreneurs, groups, individuals and microfinance...
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Shell and Envirofit Partner on BoP Cookstoves
Guest blogger Bill Kramer is principal of The Global Challenge Network, LLC, an executive education and training company. From 2001 through mid-2007, he worked on pro-poor business strategies with WRI. Previously, Bill founded a non-profit focusing on the relationship of knowledge to economic...
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Profitable Business Models and Market Creation in Deep Poverty
I recently had the opportunity to read an IESE occasional Paper, ?Profitable Business Models and Market Creation in the Context of Deep Poverty: A Strategic View? by Christina Seelos and Johanna Mair of the IESE Business School ? University of Navarra.What makes the paper refreshingly...
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Bogot?s Transmilenio: Transformation of a City ? la BoP?
If you’ve been to Bogot? in the last seven years, you’ve probably noticed a city that is distinctly different from the metropolises of many other Latin American countries. It’s cleaner, more efficient and easier to navigate. Not only that, many of the city’s public spaces exist...
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Google.org: Fuel the Growth of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
Both the New York Times and Emeka Okafor’s Timbuktu Chronicles point out Google.org’s newly-announced philanthropic commitment to small and medium-sized enterprises. From the Google.org web site: Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are critical for creating more equitable...
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