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’Strategies for the Bottom of the Pyramid’ Convention in India
The Madras Management Association will be organizing the sixth All-India Management Students’ Convention in Chennai, India on September 21 and 22. The convention will focus on Strategies for the BOP. There will be three business sessions in this convention. The first session will focus...
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Why the BoP Conference Was Worth It
I’m back in DC after three very full days at the Business With Four Billion BoP conference in Michigan. First of all, let me assure you that I’ll have session summaries written and posted as soon as possible - in the mean time, be sure to check out Nicole Goldin’s live-blogging...
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Job: Unitus
For anyone interested in working with BOP issues, I came across this job posting this morning: Unitus, a social enterprise based in Seattle, WA and Bangalore, India, is a worldwide leader at scaling proven solutions to global poverty. Unitus accelerates access to...
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Business With Four Billion Conference – Day 1
I’m in Ann Arbor, Michigan for the “Business With Four Billion” conference - the first major “base of the pyramid” meeting since WRI convened the “Eradicating Poverty Through Profit” conference in December, 2004.? On a macro level, my impressions from day one...
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Lighting Africa: It’s Time for the ’Dark Continent’ to Begin to Shine!
"The sun has set in one of the world’s poorest nations and as the floodlights come on at G’bessi International Airport, the parking lot begins filling with children.” I read this in the news article “Kids in Guinea Study Under Airport Lamps” earlier this summer. ...
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Blogging from the Business to Four Billion Conference
Al Hammond, Virginia Barreiro and I are heading to Michigan this weekend for the big “Business to Four Billion” conference in Ann Arbor.? Al will be keynoting on Sunday night at dinner, and I’m moderating a panel on Monday morning -- so, shameless self-promotion - check us out!...
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The 100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability
Great inventions have changed our lives and the world dramatically throughout history. For instance, my Mayan ancestors from the Yucatan invented the cero (a.k.a. the zero). Of course there are more mainstream inventions: the light bulb, the telephone, the Internet (thanks, Al Gore) - the...
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New Paper: Advancing the “Base of the Pyramid” Debate
In the wake of last week’s discussion of Professor Anand Jaiswal’s new paper, I received a note from Professor Nancy E. Landrum from the University of Arkansas-Little Rock.? Her new paper, Advancing the ’Base of the Pyramid’ Debate (PDF), was first published this past May in...
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