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Wharton’s Africa Business Forum
The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania will convene a 1-day conference on November 11 in Philadelphia. Africa: Building New Partnerships, Impacting the Global Economy features panel sessions on a slew of NextBillion-related topics: consumer goods, private equity,...
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StartingBloc: Inside Edition
Q. What do young social innovators do for fun? A. Hang out at StartingBloc?s fall seminar, of course. About two months ago, while I was waiting for a phenomenally delayed plane at the Dulles Airport, I picked up a copy of the summer edition of Fast Company. Beyond the excellent article...
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LifeStraw Catching On
With more than a few mentions on NextBillion during its development, it was nice to see LifeStraw covered in today’s New York Times.The LifeStraw sells for $3, is approximately the size of a paper towel tube (i.e. 25cm long by 29mm in diameter), and filters out 99.99% of bacteria, the...
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Columbia Business School’s Social Enterprise Conference: CSR, PR and The Need for Triple Bottom Line
Guest blogger Rhys Thom is an intern with WRI’s EarthTrends project. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rhys comes to WRI with an extensive background in development, having worked in Honduras, Namibia, and Nigeria. He also owns his own multimedia marketing firm. As the ideas...
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Rising Ventures: EcoCreto Could Save Mexico City’s Aquifers
Hard to believe that someone in the concrete industry of all places would have a social conscience in addition to well-honed business acumen, but that is indeed the spirit in which the EcoCreto company?s founders operate. New Ventures? Sara Standish interviewed Nestor de Buen about his...
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Prahalad: Scale Up or You’re Nothing
Christine Bowers of PSD Blog reports that C.K. Prahalad delivered his standard bottom of the pyramid talk to an audience at World Bank headquarters yesterday.? According to her post, Prahalad took a not-so-subtle shot at the Sachs/Easterly school of development, and failed to cite any...
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Columbia B-School’s Social Enterprise Conference
The Columbia Business School will hold its annual social enterprise conference this coming Friday in New York, featuring speakers from a wide range of companies and organizations. There will be a bottom-of-the-pyramid panel, where Sasha Dichter, Diana Yousef, and Erik Simanis will hold court...
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Reporting Back from the Business in Development Challenge
I am just back from the BiD Challenge, described by Rob in his post from last week. Several programs from WRI participated in the Challenge event - ourselves and New Ventures. The day of events included a number of well-produced and well thought-out interchanges, including conversations with a...
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