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Seeking Innovation? Search Out the Deviants
Researchers refer to "positive deviants" those who demonstrate uncommon but successful behaviors. While subject to the same resource constraints as their peers, they practice rare behaviors with dramatically better outcomes. They exhibit a distinctly bottom-up approach to development
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Friday Roundup ? 4/08/11: Honoring Prahalad
Next week marks the one-year anniversary of C.K. Prahalad’s untimely death. And two universities are working to honor and advance his legacy and philosophy that business can address social challenges on a global scale.
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Distinguishing Microcredit From Microfinance
The term ?microfinance? is used interchangeably with the term ?microcredit?. But just as Kleenex is only one of many brands of tissues, microcredit is only one piece of the microfinance puzzle. Women’s World Banking CEO Mary Ellen Iskenderian discusses the path toward broader financial inclusion, economic empowerment and rights.
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Disruptive Innovation In Service of Social Business Growth (Part 2)
In my previous article, I aligned and demystified the concept of disruptive innovation and its lessons. This second article goes deeper by exploring two examples - KickStart, an irrigation pump maker; and Asembis, which manages a network of low-cost urban clinics in Costa Rica - both of which offer some practical lessons for market diffusion.
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In Seattle, Linking Supply Chains to Reach the Bottom Billions
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend the Bottom Billons Bottom Line conference, hosted by Seattle Pacific University. The conference explored the role of business in ending global poverty through an examination of a broad range of topics, including social enterprises, corporate global supply chains and microfinance.
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This Friday, Join a Discussion on the State of Microfinance
The Microfinance industry has seen unprecedented challenges, and a mix of success and failure during the last decade. The Microlumbia Fund, founded by Columbia Business School students, will host The Fourth Annual MicroFinance Conference, at Columbia University to discuss the current state of the industry.
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Overcoming Gender Bias In Mobile Money
In the first of several Q&As with NextBillion, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO of Women?s World Banking, discussed a range of financial, technical and cultural challenges facing women pursuing financial and entrepreneurial goals. This conversation focuses on the largely hidden issue of gender bias blocking access to mobile money.
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Friday Roundup 4/1/11: Support for VisionSpring, Conversations at Skoll World Forum, and More
Spring is slowly making its way to the northern hemisphere... very slowly some would say. As you put your winter clothes away and undust some lighter clothes for the the warm days ahead, you’re likely looking for your sunglasses as well. Support VisionSpring and get yourself a new pair! Read more about this week’s highlights.
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