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Aspen Institute Takes a “Closer Look” at BOP Business Education
Pablo was kind enough to forward me the latest issue of A Closer Look, Aspen Institute’s monthly briefing on the latest in MBA education.? This month’s topic is BOP in the classroom -- check out the PDF, which is posted online via Aspen’s Business and Society Program. It’s a...
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Is the Microfinance Model Broken?
Provocative, yes, but it has become fashionable to ask this question in other subsections of the financial community - the state of the venture capital industry and more recently, the private equity industry have been heavily and often bitterly debated. It seems timely to revisit the need for...
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Not Another Cure-All Pill for Poverty
Josh Weissburg, a Project Associate at The Aspen Institute has shared his perspective on Prof. Aneel Karnani?s SSIR article ?Microcredit Misses Its Mark". He argues that the poor need options, not...
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A Base of the Pyramid Perspective on Poverty Alleviation
REMINDER: This event will be held on Wednesday. Please RSVP if possible, and feel free to bring friends/colleagues.Also, it’s worth noting that early registration for September’s BOP conference, “Business With 4 Billion: Creating Mutual Value at the Base of the Pyramid,"...
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Upending the Pyramid: Measuring Success at the BoP
I just finished reading Freakonomics, the NY Times Bestseller written by ?rogue economist? Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner. It?s about using economic thinking and data analysis to answer practical questions and challenge conventional wisdom. Truly, there is nothing I love...
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Article Slams $3000 “People’s Car”
Ironically, as Nitin posted his piece on the $3000 1-lakh car, I came across this article, Just What Overcrowded, Polluted India Didn’t Need - The $3000 Car, in The Independent. Well, we never said it wasn’t controversial. In fact, the whole thing gives me pause. On the one hand,...
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Small Car Activity
There has been considerable enthusiasm - including on Nextbillion.net - about Tata’s much hyped Rs. 100,000 car. Nextbillion post - India’s Model T: Tata’s $2000 car out by 2008 - has been on the Most Popular list of posts for as long as I can remember! While some are...
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Entrepreneurialization of Government
Something that has consistently bothered me since I began exploring the “business for social good” continuum is the notion (implied, but not often stated), that the government has been usurped as the primary provider of public goods. Government has failed and private enterprise must...
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