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Article Review: “Scents & Sensibility” Reveals USAID’s BoP Blind Spots
Guest blogger Grace Augustine is a Research Associate with the William Davidson Institute in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Prior to joining WDI, she worked in strategy & operations consulting for Deloitte Consulting. Grace completed her undergraduate education at the University of Michigan where she...
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Global Social Benefit Incubator: A $20,000 BoP Scholarship
Santa Clara University is known in social entrepreneurial circles for its work helping to organize and judge the Tech Museum Awards ? a showcase for social entrepreneurs, mostly from developing countries. Less well-known about the school is the Global Social Benefit Incubator, run by SCU?s...
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Article Review: Value at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Last fall, Business Strategy Review published an interesting piece by Juan Luis Martinez and Maria Carbonell called “Value at the Bottom of the Pyramid.” The article, available on the journal?s web site, warrants some serious discussion, especially in light of the recent profit...
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Holiday Hiatus – Back in 2008
NextBillion.net, housed in the Washington, D.C.-based World Resources Institute, will not have any new content from December 24 through December 31, when most of our writers and contributors will be spending holidays with friends and family.? We’ll be back in January, 2008.Any story...
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BCG publication: Top Companies from Emerging Markets
Julia Tran mentioned in a previous post some Boston Consulting Group (BCG) publications related with the ?Next Billion?. Two more studies were published in November ??Decoding Next Billion Consumers? and ?A Road Map to expanding Financial Inclusion in India? (this second one looks...
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Seeing the Forest, Not the Trees – On Mobile Banking
I found Peter van Dijk’s comments on Ana’s report from the Mobile Banking Conference interesting but not convincing. Not surprisingly, the evolution of mobile phone banking has not been without false steps, fraudulent operators, and systems that have flaws. But evolution also tends to...
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Does BoP Success Require the Moral Imperative?
When I first read the seminal article “Serving the World’s Poor, Profitably” in HBR, I found the direction it pointed to elusive. Instead of tugging at sympathy, the paper pointed to an exciting and fast growing market - the immense collective entrepreneurial capabilities and...
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Job: Junior Equity Analyst, Gray Ghost Fund
Position: Junior Equity AnalystLocation: New York, NY -- USAOrganization: Grassroots Capital Management/Gray Ghost Fund manages microfinance investments that seek to achieve medium and long-term capital appreciation together with a positive social impact through private equity investments in...
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