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Guest Post: L-RAMP Innovation Awards 2007
Shatajit Basu, a college junior at IIT Madras and a core member of the India chapter of Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship society (ASES), attended the L-RAMP Innovation Awards 2007 and sent us this guest post.By Shatajit BasuThe L-RAMP Innovation Awards is a joint initiative of premier...
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Not Every Microborrower is an Entrepreneur
(Photo: The Women of Akbarpura, by Flickr user lecercle, used under a Creative Commons license.) NextBillion readers often ask me why we don’t cover the microfinance industry more closely. After all, microfinance is a slam dunk BoP success story: a business strategy that helps...
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Job: SME Equity Finance Director, BiD Network Foundation
Position: SME Equity Finance Director Location: Amsterdam, with regular travel Organization: The BiD Network Foundation operates the world?s largest international business plan competition for SMEs in developing countries. It does this online worldwide through its 16,000 member...
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The Codensa Case: Electricity and Related Services for the BOP in Colombia
Codensa is a very successful utility company that serves 2.2 million customers in Colombia. It is controlled by Endesa, the largest electric utility company in Spain, which in 1997 took control of Codensa and Emgesa (this second company accounts for 21% of the generated electric capacity in...
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Job Posting: Membership & Administration Coordinator, Social Investment Forum
(via Just Means)Position: Membership & Administration Coordinator (Entry-level)Location: Washington, DCThe Social Investment Forum (SIF) is a national nonprofit organization for financial professionals and institutions that advances the concept, practice, and growth of socially and...
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CK Prahalad – The Greatest Management Thinker
NextBillion joins in congratulating Prof. C. K. Prahalad. Prahalad, India-born management guru and academician, has been voted the world’s most influential living management thinker in the Thinkers 50 biennial poll.A professor at the University of Michigans’ Stephen M Ross School of...
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The Tradeoff Between Growth and Innovation Part 2
This post is the continuation of my previous one last Monday. Just as it was posted, Robert Katz sent me an email with the following question:"That BOP firms, to be competitive, don’t have to be innovative in the same way that Western firms do makes sense. But what about Western firms...
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Conference Report: The Private Sector’s Role in Latin America
On Tuesday, I went to Georgetown University to attend a high-profile panel on “The Role of the Private Sector in the Competitiveness of the Latin American Region.” The line-up of panelists included three former presidents (Vicente Fox - Mexico, Alejandro Toledo ? Peru, Jose Maria...
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