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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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Remembering CK Prahalad – A Student’s Reflection
There are few people who have created a global movement that has changed the way millions of people see the world - and CK Prahalad is one of them. I first heard about CK through his book, "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid". The idealist in me was moved by his words of dignity; the pragmatist in me was driven by his talk of business.
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Skoll Award Recipients Focus on Ecosystem Services Market
Having focused much of my research at Oxford on carbon markets and the development of ecosystem services markets, I was thrilled to see the Skoll Foundation?s recent investments in this area at last night?s ceremony for their 2010 Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. Three of the seven recipients were from the field of forest valuation.
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Funding the Small Fish: Association for Development of Pakistan
With a proliferation of small projects and business ideas bubbling up in developing countries, a gap is emerging: the lack of a dedicated donor pool willing to angel fund such projects. Enter the Association for Development of Pakistan, an organization that provides grants in amounts less than USD $10,000 to groups in Pakistan.
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Notes from the Base of the Pyramid(s)
Try Googling ?Base of the Pyramid? and ?Egypt.? You will learn about the size of the base of the Cheops pyramid, the length of its sides, and that it was built to be as square as possible. Not exactly what one might be looking for in the context of enterprise and development?
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