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Jobs: Acumen Fund Portfolio Associate
Acumen Fund is currently seeking highly qualified applicants for the position of Portfolio Associate.Location: New York, NYAcumen Fund is a global non-profit venture capital fund serving the four billion people living on less than $4 a day. Its objective is to create a blueprint for...
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Bringing Rural Brazil Into the Internet Age?
Co-ops are big in Brazil. They are how small communities organize to help themselves, given that they are often overlooked by large companies. Recently I had the opportunity to visit just such a coop in Valente, a town deep in Bahia in Brazil’s Northeast....
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Advanced Logistics for Base of the Pyramid Enterprises
A WalMart-type logistics system, tracking every sale of every item at every outlet? Surely that’s overkill for a base of the pyramid (BOP) business--or is it? Last week Julia Tran--WRI’s BOP health sector specialist--and I visited Mi Farmacita, a franchise pharmacy that provides low...
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Colorado State’s Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise Program
"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.? -- Thomas Edison If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the Global Social Enterprise Program at Colorado State University’s School of Business.? When I applied to the Johnson...
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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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