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Government Sanitary Napkin Scheme Threatens BoP Innovator
A. Muruganatham and his invention, a machine that can churn out 120 sanitary napkins an hour, has been creating a lot of waves in the developmental sector. A high school drop out, Muruganatham created his machine after realizing that there was an immense need for low cost sanitary napkin at the base of the pyramid.
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Remembering CK Prahalad – Collected Thoughts
As an undergraduate summer intern, I helped edit case studies that appear in the appendices of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. It was my first exposure to CK Prahalad, and I was lucky. Who else gets to spend their summer editing what would go on to become an influential book by the world’s soon-to-be-named number one management guru?
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Bolstering Microfinance with Education and Strong Partnerships
Combining microfinance and business training is relatively new concept that has recently been gaining momentum in the microfinance community. While other organizations, including banner MFIs, have introduced BDS into their work portfolios, Lumana Credit is an organization that ingrains this philosophy in the core of their business practices.
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Remembering CK Prahalad – In Appreciation
To those of us fortunate to know him, CK Prahalad’s death is both unexpected and a huge personal loss. He was so vital, so full of creative energy, that it seems hard to believe he is not still here, brimming with new ideas, backed by a diagram and compelling anecdote.
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Remembering CK Prahalad – A Legacy of Moral Leadership
I am very grateful that CK’s passion for and commitment to teaching remained intact as his star steadily rose to the highest ranks of management and innovation thinking. But with his death, it is up to those of us who have been inspired by Professor Prahalad to carry on his legacy of moral leadership.
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Weekly Roundup April 12-19: Skoll World Forum & Remembering C.K. Prahalad
This past week featured coverage of the Skoll World Forum in Oxford as well as intensive examinations of effective models for reaching the grassroots and ultra-poor levels in Pakistan and Bangladesh respectively. Following his untimely death, we’ve begun featuring remembrances of C.K. Prahalad.
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Remembering CK Prahalad – A Colleague’s Reflection
The untimely death of CK Prahalad has given me reason to pause and reflect on just how important this man has been, not only to the world, but to me personally. I first met him in 1985, as a recently-minted Ph.D. joining the faculty at the University of Michigan. At the time, I had little idea just how influential and life-shaping...
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Inside the Skoll World Forum: Climate Change
When you?re in a room and Larry Brilliant, Nick Moon and Mark Fulton are asking questions of the panelists, you know you?ve struck gold. This was one of two sessions explicitly on climate change at the Skoll World Forum, and it was focused on the post-Copenhagen world and the debate over top-down political accords versus bottom-up action.
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