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You may wonder about the actual differences between a Hybrid Value Chain, Corporate Social Responsibility, Base of the Pyramid and Inclusive Business. The field of market-based approaches addressing social and environmental issues is still too nascent to start arguing over terms, but it may be worth clarifying some fundamental differences.
How are Hybrid Value Chains different from CSR, BoP, Inclusive Business?Blog Post
The convergence of PCs and mobile phones, is well under way. It’s hard to believe that transformation began in earnest just three years ago when Apple unveiled the iPhone. Today, Africans are turning their late adoption of technology to their advantage by leapfrogging landlines and personal computers to mobile devices, and developers are following.
One Laptop Per Child … But What “Laptop”?Blog Post
If BoP was a piece of music, then Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid aims to convert it from an analog to a digital format. A decade after the concept first emerged and myriad businesses have adopted BoP as a guiding principle, veteran and new thought leaders challenge us not to build a fortune at, but WITH, the BoP.
Building a Fortune With the BoP: A Video Interview with Ted LondonBlog Post
From Omidyar’s perspective, innovation in philanthropy can be amplified through a "flexible capital" approach, one that at times leaves the familiarity of grant making and enters the field of investing. This approach considers a variety of funding instruments as potential tools to address a social problem.
In Search of Innovation: Flexible CapitalBlog Post
At the end of September, and for the second year in a row, I found myself in the hype and occasional motorcade-induced street closure that is the Clinton Global Initiative. After five years, is CGI living up to its story of creating action, not conversation, and sparking new collaborations between industry and the NGO sector?
After the Dust Has Settled… Enduring Hybrid Value at CGIBlog Post
If standards only aim to include output metrics, information elicited by these assessments will only indicate how well the business model operates based on if they performed as planned or not. This kind assessment does not address the larger question of how and potentially, why the business model is helping or hurting individuals.
Wrapping Up Net Impact on … ImpactBlog Post
Every emerging industry that has survived to transform the world has had to emerge from its "Wild West" phase ? a sort of testing period where ideas are thrown against the wall to see what sticks and what ends up bouncing right back in its face. After a few decades, perhaps microfinance has reached that defining moment.
Civilizing the ’Wild West’ of MicrofinanceBlog Post
If used appropriately and in a widespread fashion, Grameen Foundation’s Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI) could standardize the process for how migration out of poverty is measured, while creating a large sample population for comparison. By the same token, there are some potential shortcomings in the 5-month-old certification process.
Assessing Grameen Foundation?s Progress Out of Poverty Index
