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“Smile Train Works as a Charity Because it is Run Like a Business”
The quote is from an interesting NYT Magazine article I just read and got me thinking about successful models to scale the impact of socially minded?initiatives. Freakonomics authors Levitt and Dubner discuss innovative?models implemented by Smile Train and the Prevent Cancer Foundation to...
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Medellin’s Promising Transformation: ?Cultura E? (as in Entrepreneurship)
Ride Metrocable, an impressive system of cable cars that connects to the Metro and carries Medellin’s poorest citizens over the steep hills that host the city’s slums (traveling together with an increasing number of curious tourists). Step down in the uppermost station, and you’ll...
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New Study Details Problems and Prospects for Mobile Phone Banking
By all measures, this has been a pretty long post to finalize.In January, Ana?s post about the mobile phone banking conference at Chemonics aroused a series of insightful comments. Al Hammond then weighed in with a post of his own (he also recently wrote about Biometric Security for Mobile...
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Don’t Wait for the Rain: Social Marketing for KickStart’s MoneyMaker
NextBillion ally Cat Laine - editor of the excellent AIDG blog - posted a fantastic social marketing video earlier this week that I just had the chance to look at today. Entitled Don’t Wait for the Rain, the video features Maasai rap artist Mr. Ebbo alongside actors portraying the...
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BoP Protocol Releases 2nd Edition
What does a next-generation BoP strategy look like?? How do large companies work effectively (and profitably) with the BoP?? What have we learned in the years since Stuart Hart and C.K. Prahalad published their s+b article, Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid?If you’re looking for...
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New Report: How to Make Mobile Phone Banking Secure
Mobile phone banking is already fully commercial in the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya. It’s about to happen in perhaps a dozen additional countries. With more than 1.5 billion mobile phones deployed in the developing world, the potential market is large and growing. The need is...
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Introducing Staff Writer Francisco Noguera
The New Ventures team is proud to welcome Francisco Noguera on board as the latest addition to our pool of talented NextBillion.net Staff Writers. Francisco, a native of Colombia comes to NextBillion.net with a deep understanding of issues around implementation of BoP initiatives. In...
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Mapping Clean Energy Opportunities for the BoP
So what does it take to supply millions of households in emerging economies with clean renewable energy? We often talk about finance, new models, willing entrepreneurs. Kenneth Westrick, CEO of energy consulting group 3Tier says it’s information.Really? Hard to believe this at a time...
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