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Water, water, every…where?
Thanks , Rob, for submitting a news story on water research that highlights what is (hopefully) a trend: the delivery of clean water to the BOP and the increased efficiency of water usage during production of other goods. For those of you who do not check the activity database faithfully,...
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Immune to Criticism? Hawken and Elkington on the BOP
John?s discovery of Value and subsequent post prompted me to probe a bit deeper into the site. First of all, it?s nice to see a business magazine that has the phrase ?Tomorrow?s Markets? in the sub-title. Nicer still is that Value provides content of...well, value. Take for...
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Value – New Magazine Explores Tomorrow’s Markets, Enterprises & Investments
?There will come a day when you will not be able to tell the difference between a for-profit and a nonprofit organization.? Those words, spoken by the late Peter Drucker to the Harvard Business Review in 1993, planted the seeds that have led to Value, the first new business magazine in a...
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BOP Job Announcements II ? Acumen Fund and GFUSA
Following up on my job announcements post the other day, I hear through Zoo Station and New Ventures that there are some other promising opportunities opening up in the BOP realm. Acumen Fund is looking for 10 post-graduate fellows to learn about and help manage their portfolio?s wide range...
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One Cellphone per Child?
The New York Times posted an interesting article today talking about the politics of open-source software, and its consequences to the much vaunted One Laptop Per Child program. According to the article, Dr. Negroponte?s decision to furnish his program?s inexpensive laptops with...
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IFC Sees Greater Role in BOP Investment & Development
The International Finance Corporation turns 50 this year. To mark the occasion, the group released an article that talks about the IFC?s investments ? past, present, and future. Its prognosis for 2006? Emerging markets are headed for a banner year. Lars Thunell, executive vice...
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BOP Job Announcements ? Solae and GFUSA Are Hiring
DuPont?s food division, Solae, is working with the BOP Protocol team at Cornell University to set up a pilot project in Hyderabad, India. The project is looking to hire four dedicated, paid interns. An excerpt of the description, which can be found at Zoo Station, mentions that n terms...
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Malaria – From A to Z, at Long Last
Another ?in case you missed it? entry, this time about Tanzanian A to Z?s long-lasting malaria net enterprise mentioned in blog posts and activity capsules past. The nets ? as well as the underlying for-profit business model ? are featured in a nice column by the Guardian?s Jon...
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