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Business on the brain
Indian-born management guru tops The Thinkers 50 biennial poll of the most influential living business people The most influential living management guru in the world is C. K. Prahalad , according to The Thinkers 50 biennial poll of business thinkers. Prahalad is the first Indian-born thinker to claim the title. Best known for his wo...
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Dung, Sewage Fuel Inventors’ Imaginations
By JEREMY WAGSTAFF Individuals’ Projects Range From Electricity To Clean Irrigation Mr. Morgan realized that there was a need for improved helmets when he witnessed the aftermath of road accidents in his native Brisbane, Australia, 20-odd years ago. A traffic-investigation squad would alert him to wrecks, and he would rush to the scene to recover helmets for study at a local university. He vividly recalls his first crash scene: A biker on a high-powered Ducati...
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Financial Times and IFC Launch 2008 Sustainable Banking Awards
The Financial Times , in partnership with IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group , today launched the 2008 edition of the FT Sustainable Banking Awards , the leading awards for triple bottom line banking. Two new categories - Banking at the Bottom of the Pyramid, and Sust...
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Yunus calls for major reforms in World Bank
Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has asked for major reforms in the World Bank saying the multilateral development bank has not been successful in achieving its main goal of poverty alleviation. The world has gone through so many changes over the last few decades, but the World Bank remains static since its establishment about 60 years ago. It needs reforms and...
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No, No, No, Don?t Follow Us
India is in serious danger ? no, not from Pakistan or internal strife. India is in danger from an Indian-made vehicle: a $2,500 passenger car, the world?s cheapest. India?s Tata Motors recently announced that it plans to begin turning out a four-door, four-seat, rear-engine car for $2,500 next year and hopes to sell one million of them annually, primarily to those living at the bottom of the pyramid in India and the ...
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Microfinance is the big idea that can help to end poverty
By Mervyn Davies, CEO of Standard Chartered Small credit projects in the developing world are not new ? but they are the best route to sustainable growth. The world should be pro-growth. The answer to the future is economic growth; it is not protectionism, or putting in place barriers so that the world shrinks. Each company should focus on sustainable development and growth. At the end of the day the world should focus on getting individuals and co...
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Health and care for all
That India?s primary healthcare is in dire straits is well known. While the affluent sections are being overwhelmed with the choice of superspeciality service, there is a widely held belief that there is no money to be made in providing healthcare to the bottom of the pyramid. Some entrepreneurs are challenging this as a myth and trying to improve the health of healthcare in India. Ziqitza Health Care Services, the company behind the 1298...
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Unitus Convenes Microfinance, Business and Philanthropic Leaders to Scale the Effort to Reduce Globa
Global leaders in microfinance, business and philanthropy concluded a three-day Summit focused on charting the next chapter of poverty alleviation through social entrepreneurship. Unitus, Inc. , a worldwide leader in scaling innovative solutions to global poverty, invited Pierre Omidyar, eBay founder and co-founder and founding partner of ...
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