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BoP Learning Labs: Coinventing the Inclusive Economy
Cornell University has been at the heart of the base of the pyramid (BoP) discussion since Stu Hart became a professor there in 2003. The school’s programs study growth opportunities that address the needs of the world’s poorest communities and drive business success.The next logical...
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Boston Consulting Group Takes on Next Billion
Boston Consulting Group has been conducting extensive primary research into the spending habits and lifestyle of a segment of the population it identifies as the “next billion.” The “next billion” are economically better off than the poorest of the poor, but earn just less...
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Guest Post: Anand K. Jaiswal on the Role of Small and Medium Enterprises
Guest blogger Dr. Anand Kumar Jaiswal is a faculty in marketing area at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. He received his Ph.D. from XLRI Jamshedpur. His research interests include business strategies for low-income markets, sustainable development, services management and...
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Pop!Tech – Jay Keasling’s Microbes Are Changing the World
Jay Keasling is the personification of creative destruction.? Keasling is an award-winning scientist and the developer of an ultra low-cost source of artemisinin, the active ingredient in anti-malarial drugs.? His company, Amyris Biotechnologies, engineers microbes that produce artemisinin at...
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Pop!Tech – Interview With Kiva’s Jessica Flannery
Jessica Flannery is, in many ways, an accidental entrepreneur.? Had she not met a guy named Matt at a DC conference in 1999, the entire enterprise she’s known for (Kiva.org) might not exist today.? I was fortunate to be able to sit down with Jessica for an interview yesterday here at...
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Pop!Tech – On Cell Phones, Entrepreneurship, and African Governance
Last night, I wrote a post about Camden, Maine - where I am attending Pop!Tech 2007.? At the very end, I mentioned that I was heading out to meet up with Nathan Eagle, a MIT entrepreneur-engineer who runs the Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles project. Well, I did run into...
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Pop!Tech – Art and Data Driving Change
Want to get someone to change the way they live?? To change their habits, lifestyles, mores, opinions?? Lectures don’t work - almost anyone will zone out.? Data help - but numbers can be soporific, too. It may be obvious to anyone who has ever attended a PowerPoint presentation, but...
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Breaking News: NextBillion Ally Receives $30m Investment
I just received an e-mail from NextBillion ally and BOP enthusiast Michael Hokenson.? Michael is the Managing Director of Minlam Asset Management, a NY-based microfinance hedge fund: Minlam Asset Management LLC is a New York-based investment firm providing financial solutions for emerging...
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