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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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Emerged Economies
Most people steeped in the development field see the term developing countries as negative and pass?; we call the up and coming global presence of countries like China, Brazil and Indonesia ?emerging economies.? This term is not about being PC, it?s about accuracy and according to the...
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The Business in Development Challenge
The Business in Development Challenge, the world?s first international business plan competition for poverty reduction and profit, is taking place this week in Amsterdam. Hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors, NGOs, and government representatives have gathered on the eve of tomorrow?s award...
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Mirage at the BOP? Acumen Fund Weighs In
It has been a couple of weeks since Professor Aneel Karnani and Professor C.K. Prahalad debated the best (and worst) ways to serve bottom of the pyramid markets here at NextBillion.net. You may recall that it started when Karnani posted his criticism of Prahalad?s best-selling book;...
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