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Micro-Innovation: Bringing Billions into the Conversation
Base of the Pyramid (BoP) strategy has a few key tenets, one of which is the power of aggregated demand. Those living at the base of the economic pyramid may have little buying power on their own, but when they are pooled together, their consolidated demand amounts to a viable market. ...
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Taking BoP Strategies To Scale Pt. 5: Concluding Thoughts
This post is the last in a five part series on a radical new approach to scaling BoP business models, what we call a transformative sector strategy. In this segment, I address the six preceding guest posts that commented on this strategy and offer some concluding thoughts. I welcome these...
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Guest Post: Platform Strategies for Scaling
Guest blogger Francisco Mej?a is a Principal in the Opportunities for the Majority Office at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), based in Washington DC. He currently leads the preparation of various transactions involving the financing of BoP projects in leading and innovative...
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Guest Post: John Paul Responds to Al Hammond
Guest blogger John Paul is a Co-Founder and former Managing Editor of Nextbillion.net. He is currently finishing up his MBA at Cornell University, where he has focused on private-sector solutions to global poverty with the school’s Center for Sustainable Global EnterpriseIn this post,...
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Guest Post: The Transformative Sector Approach in Latin America
Guest blogger Emily Fintel is Regional Representative for Strategic Initiatives at Fundaci?n AVINA, one of the largest private foundations in Latin America. AVINA partners with civil society and business leaders to promote sustainable development through a network of twenty-one offices in...
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Guest Post: Taking the BoP Movement To The Next Level
Guest blogger Sagar Gubbi is a technology graduate based in Bangalore with a deep interest in social and environmental sectors in India. He maintains a popular social entrepreneurship blog on Social Edge, and he is the co-founder of ’EcoForge’, an investment advisory and consulting firm...
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Base of the Pyramid Market Building in Disaster Areas
We live in a world obsessed with growth. According to the National Bureau of Economic of Research (NBER), there have been only four recessions in the US since 1980. Between March 1991 and March 2001, the US experienced the longest economic expansion in its history. It comes, therefore, as no...
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Guest Post: Show Me the Income
Guest blogger Ryan Gunderson writes about sustainable, scalable solutions to end global poverty on his Riches For Good blog. A finance professional with an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and seven years of Fortune 500 experience, Ryan is transitioning to...
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