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You Can Hear Me Now
By Nathan KommersNate Kommers is a Press Officer with the World Resources Institute. Yesterday, the Aspen Institute held a book event in here DC with Nick Sullivan, author of You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones are Connecting the World?s Poor to the Global Economy, and...
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The U-Curve Theory
Highlights from the Business, Engineering and Sustainability Workshop This past weekend, about 60 talented individuals from business schools, engineering departments, non-profits and the private sector met for what was essentially a two day brainstorming session. The goal: Discovering ways...
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International Private Enterprise Group – DC – February Meeting
The DC chapter of the International Private Enterprise Group will hold its February meeting tomorrow, Thursday February 22. We have reserved the second floor of the Science Club (1136 19th Street, NW - between L and M, just a few blocks from DuPont Circle and Farragut Square) from 6:00 - 7:30...
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MFI Sponsored Financial Education
Most schools in developing economies do not offer any financial education. Those who do, offer it as an optional course. Those who do, like India’s CBSE offer an overview of financial markets and share capital.Last year alone, according to Business Today, more than 15 million Indians...
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Michigan Announces BOP Conference 2007
I received an e-mail from Ted London, Director of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, to let me know that the web site for their upcoming conference is up and running. Business with Four Billion: Creating Mutual Value at the Base of the Pyramid will be held in Ann...
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The BOP Debate: WRI Responds
By Allen Hammond, Bill Kramer, and Rob KatzThe recent debate over Fair & Lovely Whitening Cream, both in Aneel Karnani’s working paper and in Andrew Leonard’s column in Salon, brings up many interesting points. In response to Karnani, who argues that Fair & Lovely...
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The BOP Debate: Aneel Karnani Responds
The debate between C.K. Prahalad and Aneel Karnani regarding the BOP proposition continues. As we reported earlier this week, Professor Karnani has published a new case study critical of Hindustan Lever Limited’s Fair & Lovely Whitening Cream, a product identified by Prahalad and...
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In Search of Emerging Markets Excellence
IFC, the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group and international consultancy and think-tank SustainAbility are launching a major project to find out how companies in emerging-markets have attained investment-grade ratings, driven innovation and created new forms of value through good...
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