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Taking Base of the Pyramid Strategies To Scale Pt.1: An Introduction to Transformative Sector Strate
This post is the first of 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 introduce the conceptual framework for this innovative poverty-alleviation model. “It doesn’t exactly keep me up at...
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Video: Making the Case for Inclusive Business in Latin America
The WBCSD-SNV Alliance?recently?released a fantastic video introducing their?work in the promotion of inclusive?business models across Latin America.Besides profiling interesting models?that bridge the interests of?MNCs and the base of the pyramid, the video highlights the role...
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Event: Small Business Finance – What Works, What Doesn’t?
The debate around SME finance is rapidly maturing. Development professionals and socially-minded investors are well aware of the difficulty entrepreneurs in emerging economies have in securing capital larger than microloans. A World Bank conference to be held next Monday and Tuesday in...
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MNC to BoP: How Entrepreneurs Make The Link
We blog frequently on this site about the importance of large multi-nationals finding ways to tap into BoP markets. This often comes in the form of discussions on reaching the BoP directly as consumers (ie projects like the OLPC or microcredit initiatives). But what about small and medium...
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SMEs Are What’s Next
"What poor countries need most is not more microbusinesses. They need more small-to-medium-sized enterprises, the kind that are bigger than a fruit stand but smaller than a Fortune 1000 corporation.” These were the words of James Surowiecki last month in his New Yorker piece What...
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World Challenge 2008: Nominations Accepted Until May 31st
Now in its fourth year, World Challenge 08 is a global competition aimed at finding projects or small businesses from around the world that have shown enterprise and innovation at a grass roots level. The competition seeks social entrepreneurs who are making a difference without costing the...
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BoP = 1; SME = Global
"N=1, R=G” is purportedly the equation that summarizes C.K. Prahalad’s new contribution to business management literature. I haven’t had a chance to read the book yet, but there are good synopses online already, such as this one - all of which report that the new book by C.K....
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Examining Entrepreneurs at the BoP
The Social Equity Venture Fund (S.E.VEN) has just invested $100,000 to research the age-old question of what factors lead some entrepreneurs to success and others to failure, only this grant is one of the few to support research on this topic in the developing world. S.E.VEN has awarded...
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