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Guest Post: Lord Brown and “Making Private Capital Work for the Poor”
Guest blogger Chaz Littlejohn is the Director of Finance for Nourish International UNC Chapter, and is finishing his last semester at the University of North Carolina in the Economics program. At Nourish International, Chaz has applied his economics training to analyzing and improving how...
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Graduate Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship Available at NYU
Each year, the NYU Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship awards up to 20 Graduate Fellowships in Social Entrepreneurship to students from across 11 NYU schools.The Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship is designed to attract,...
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Hard Questions for Microfinance: How Much Profit is Too Much Profit?
Microcredit is generally considered a step forward in the war against poverty. Giving small loans to impoverished people helps transform lives ? read the annual report of any MFI for details. While I am a firm believer that microfinance is a good thing, does it remain “good” when...
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Global Social Venture Competition
A number of recent posts on NextBillion seem to feature the Indian School of Business, and with good reason!The Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) is the largest student-run business plan contest in the world, which provides mentoring, exposure and prizes for social ventures from around...
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Exploring New Markets: The Base of the Pyramid
From October 15, five professors from the Indian School of Business, in Hyderabad, will deliver video lectures on topics such as marketing, microfinance and mobile telephony in a country such as India.This is part of the Financial Times Business School series of online executive education...
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NextBillion Goes to PopTech This Week
Every fall, a small seaside town in Maine hosts an ideas festival called Pop!Tech.? In the past, I’ve jealously followed conference coverage on the blogosphere, trying to picture myself wedged between Bruce Sterling and Stewart Brand while they discuss the future of environmentalism (for...
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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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