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Best Books 2005 – What’s on Your List?
You’re making your list; you’re checking it twice. And you’re not alone ? its time for everyone’s year-end best-of lists. I just finished browsing strategy-business? Best Business Books 2005, where coverage ranges from strategy to marketing to globalization. (Side note: which works are...
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A New Model for Success at the BOP: Interview with David Wheeler, Conclusion and Compilation
This is the conclusion of our interview with David Wheeler, author of Creating Sustainable Local Enterprise Networks. The entire interview is available here.Describe the implications of your research for development strategies. How could development agencies use your findings to get the...
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Wall Street Take Heed – Here’s the Alternative (Exchange)
You may have noticed a recent upswing of news about small and medium sized enterprises, much of which has been picked up and discussed on NextBillion. Small local enterprise networks, mesofinance, small and large for-profit venture funds ? and now an Alternative Exchange. (Via Timbuktu...
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A New Model for Success at the BOP: Interview with David Wheeler, Part 4
Click to view Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of the interview.What are the biggest challenges to creating Sustainable Local Enterprise Networks? How can these be overcome?For all the great examples of SLENs that we described and that are featured on the NextBillion web site and elsewhere,...
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What’s in a Name: NextBillion – Fries or Future?
When our WRI team sat down to brainstorm a name for new web portal and community, it wasn?t evident at first that ?NextBillion? made sense. One colleague pulled the Big Mac card: NextBillion was too close to McDonald?s signature ?billions and billions served? tag line. Despite...
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A New Model for Success at the BOP: Interview with David Wheeler, Part 3
Click to view Part 1 and Part 2 of the interview.Doesn?t this model depart significantly from conventional wisdom in its hybrid character?with both for profit and non-profit components playing a significant role? What?s important about this model for larger companies, particularly...
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A New Model for Success at the BOP: Interview with David Wheeler, Part 2
This post is a continuation of an interview Nextbillion conducted with Prof. David Wheeler, who recently wrote an insightful piece on how sustainable local enterprise networks can enable bottom-up development at the base of the pyramid. The interview will conclude next week. To read the...
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Report: Private Sector Strategies for Providing Healthcare at the Base of the Pyramid
The role of the private sector in improving the delivery of healthcare in developing countries is still being debated. Although private sector strategies may improve efficiencies and lower costs, some fear that turning healthcare entirely into a consumer service will marginalize the poor even...
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