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A Call for Innovation and Collaboration
We often talk about sustainability in development or compose programs that aspire to that end, but far less often do we address or share instances of setback. In a recent trip to Swaziland I visited TechnoServe’s cotton program and was struck by the setback incurred when a prominent aid agency interrupted the efforts of this program.
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C.K. Prahalad: Sustainability Can Lead to Innovation
He’s going green. After core competence and the bottom of the pyramid, the world’s best-known management guru of Indian origin, CK Prahalad, is talking sustainable development. Why? Because, as he argued in a recent article in the Harvard Business Review, "Sustainability is the mother lode of innovations that yield both bottomline and topline returns". In an exclusive interview to ET Now , the Paul and Ruth McCracken professor of strategy at Stephen M Ross School of Business at the Un...
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Small Companies, Big Impacts
The New Ventures country directors answer questions about what small, sustainable companies can do to boost local economies and protect the environment.
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Sustainability: Placing a Higher Value on Our Future
In Professor Gautam Kaul?s course ?Finance and the Sustainable Enterprise? at the Ross School of Business, we recently had a lengthy and very profound discussion on sustainability and interest rates. Yes, that?s right: interest rates. You didn?t read this wrong. (And please don?t stop reading now)
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Cornell Global Forum: What Gets Measured Gets Done
Although its purpose is explicitly action-oriented?the mission of the Forum is to accelerate the degree to which clean tech companies and BoP companies incubate clean technology at the BoP?I couldn’t wrap my head around how another big, centrally-planned talk shop ensconced in a tony New York locale could possibly do anything meaningful...
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Cornell Global Forum: BoP Inclusion Meets Environmental Sustainability
Rather than feeling exhausted after a 2 ? day conference on "The Great Convergence", I felt energized and enthusiastic about what appears to be a certain maturation or "coming of age" of this space. The idea that we cannot achieve inclusion of the BoP if we don’t consider how to do so with that environmental sustainability, and vice-versa...
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Social Investing Part 1: Risks, Returns, and Me
A lot of investors can give charitably, but cannot fathom making an investment in a social venture that does not have an appropriate risk-reward trade-off. So, what does this mean for social ventures? Will they never be able to attract the appropriate funding necessary to achieve significant scale?
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Is the Green-Base of the Pyramid Nexus Kicking In?
A couple of months ago, I suggested that the new trend in the development through enterprise space would be a growing interest in the cross-implications of poverty and the effects of climate change in the developing world. I’ve recently come across a couple of events that signal this could actually be happening.
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