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The British brand of corporate responsibility is seen as the gold standard, says Julia Cleverdon, chief executive of Business in the Community, which for 25 years has been championing the cause in Britain. And it is true that Britain, especially London, has been a hive of innovation in CSR since the mid-1990s, thanks to a creative cluster of think-tanks, NGOs, consultancies and inventive bosses. But according to Simon Zadek of AccountAbility, a think-tank that has been part of the cl...
Going globalNews
By Richard Shaffer It is, as Intel’s press release put it, one of the most remote inhabited places on earth. Parintins, Brazil, is on the outskirts of nowhere. The closest highway ends in ?bidos, a day or two downriver. So in 2006, when Intel wirelessly connected the Amazon city to the rest of the online world, chairman Craig Barrett promised that the venture would bring the expertise of specialists, sophisticated medical imaging, and the world&#...
Intel’s Amazon AmbitionsNews
Authors: J. L. Warnholz Publisher: Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2007. The author examines the idea that selling consumer goods to poor people at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BoP) generates profits for large businesses and eliminates poverty at the same time. He admits that big businesses have a central role in shaping future markets and generating employment. The entry of multinationals in the BoP sector would also reduce prices, raise ...
Poverty reduction for profit? A critical examination of business opportunities at the bottom of theBlog Post
On Wednesday, I attended a presentation by Jessica Cohen on her doctoral research experiment (co-authored with Pascaline Dupas) about distribution schemes for anti-malarial long-lasting bednets. The randomized experiment, conducted in rural, western Kenya, aimed to test the difference between...
To Give or Not to Give: Academics Study Bednet DistributionBlog Post
What’s in a name, a brand, a catchphrase? In some sense, everything. But a brand/name/phrase is only as good as the content behind it. So when U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon recently declared 2008 to be “the year of the ’bottom billion’,” I paid attention - after...
Will 2008 Be The Year of ’Next Billion’ or ’Bottom Billion’?News
The soon-to-be-released $2,500 People’s Car is a natural fit for India, but don’t expect rivals to match it. By David Welch and Nandini Lakshman, with Ian Rowley in Tokyo Forget about sleek styling, a powerful engine, or electronic gadgets in the dashboard. Gurdeep Randhawa is lusting after a bare-bones car that’ll soon be available in India. The 39-year-old mill manager in a Mumbai suburb buzzes to work on a $1,350 scooter and pile...
My Other Car Is a TataNews
By Mritiunjoy Mohanty Tata Motors will unveil its Rs 1-lakh (Rs 100,000) car at the 9th New Delhi Auto Expo on January 10. The commercial launch of the car is slated for the second-half of 2008. Both events are keenly anticipated by India’s burgeoning middle class, in general, and the auto industry, in particular. Not since the launch of the Maruti 800 in 1983 has a new car model been more keenly awaited. And just as the Maruti 800 before it, if the Tata Rs 1-l...
Why criticising the Rs 1-lakh car is wrongNews
Independent research and advisory firm, Financial Insights, has announced the release of a new report examining the growing use and effectiveness of innovative technology solutions in microfinance initiatives. Abhishek Kumar, senior research analyst, Asia/Pacific banking advisory service, notes, Banks in Indonesia and India have emerged as leaders in deploying innovative technologies to grow their microfinance businesses. These banks have shown that technologies like biometrics...
Smart Technology Will Help Microfinance
