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Jobs/Careers: Penn State Tenure Track Faculty Positions
Two faculty positions are open at Penn State - Delaware County University for Management Faculty.? The Assistant Professor candidates (one in Management, one in Marketing) will have the proper academic backgrounds, but Professor Raed Elaydi tells NextBillion that an interest in BoP research...
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Guest Post: Dr. Nancy Landrum on “Advancing the BoP Debate”
Dr. Nancy E. Landrum is Associate Professor of strategic management at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.? Her teaching, research, and consulting expertise are in strategic management, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability.? Dr. Landrum received her Ph.D. from New Mexico...
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Thoughts on the “Next Generation” Conference: Bringing Microfinance Down to Earth
Wrap-up from the IFC-CGAP-Visa conference: Next Generation - Access to Finance ??With our mobile commerce partnership in Japan, we?ve turned cell phones into wallets!? I paraphrase one of the morning presentations on the possibilities of mobile banking. ?You can store money on your...
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The Oxford University 21st Century Challenge Competition 2007
The Oxford University 21st Century Challenge Competition is a new international entrepreneurship competition, jointly organized by the Oxford Science Enterprise Centre (OxSEC) and the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilisation (JMI) at the Said Business School, Oxford. This new...
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Paul Collier’s Bottom Billion Book Discussion
Georgetown University’s Mortara Center for International Studies is hosting a book discussion next week on “The Bottom Billion- Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It.” The author of the book, Paul Collier will be at the discussion....
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What does the Future Hold for Rural Chinese Borrowers?
"In China, people try not to think about the countryside at all. When they do, it is not of a rural idyll, but a grim, dirty place where people are poor and life is harsh. In Britain the countryside is somewhere to escape to. In China it is somewhere to escape from.” I read these...
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Jobs/Careers: Apply for the Acumen Fund Fellows Program
Each year, the Acumen Fund Fellows Program provides extraordinary young professionals with a unique opportunity to use their skills to effect real social change with our portfolio organizations in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, India and Pakistan, and to build lasting relationships with other...
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Talent Strategy for NextBillion Enterprises
On NextBillion.net, we have discussed business models, strategies, and funding for successful enterprises aimed at the world?s poorest citizens. Another critical issue is getting the right talent.Sure, you are catering to the Next Billion people. Sure, you have unprecedented hype - and...
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