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WE STARTED out abroad as ?accidental tourists?,? says Anand Mahindra, managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, an Indian maker of tractors and off-road vehicles. Owed money by a Greek manufacturing plant, it took an equity stake instead, and so Mahindra Hellenic was born in 1984. Mahindra & Mahindra is now one of 100 companies from the developing world that Boston Consulting Group (BCG) thinks have the clout and ambition to upset the world’s multinationals. The cons...
They’re behind youNews
On November 29-30, 2007 the Center for Global Development (CGD) and the Spanish Ministry of External Relations and Cooperation convened a high-level workshop titled, Policies and Innovations for Improving Access to Financial Services: A Global Challenge. The workshop drew a crowd of over 50 distinguished participants, including officials from indu...
How to Help the World’s Poor Get a Foot Inside the Bank DoorNews
On November 28, New Ventures M?xico celebrated the launch of its sponsorship phase of Las P?ginas Verdes , or The Green Pages, Mexico?s first directory of environmentally and socially sustainable products and services. Las P?ginas Verdes has quickly become recognized as Mexico?s most valuable green marketing tool because it brings together all sustainable alternatives ava...
New Ventures M?xico Launches Las P?ginas Verdes (“The Green Pages”)News
What does a $20 donation do for Ashoka ? A $20 donation represents much more to us than just the money. It means that the investor, begins to explore the field of social entrepreneurship. It means one more person becomes aware of the powerful work of social entrepreneurs around the world and it means one more person will hopefully be inspired to create social change. And of course, it also helps provide support to...
GOOD Q&A: Bill DraytonBlog Post
A recent Wall Street Journal article documents the demise of Nicolas Negroponte?s dream of a $100 “one laptop per child” for millions of schoolchildren in the developing world. (Thanks to Ethan Zuckerman for pointing it out.)? To give Negroponte his due, the idea stimulated...
A Lesson for BoP Technologists: Put the Business Model FirstNews
DIRSI (Regional Dialogue on the Information Society) has released the final draft on its report about mobile phones and poverty in Latin America and The Caribbean . The report abstract notes that access to telephony for low-income groups is largely based on different strategies of use around mobile telephony. The main goal of this research project was ...
Report Studies How Mobile Phones Affect PovertyNews
...But nearly three years later, only about 2,000 students in pilot programs have received computers from the One Laptop project. An order from Uruguay for 100,000 machines appears to be the only solid deal to date with a country, although Mr. Negroponte says he’s on the verge of sealing an order from Peru for 250,000. The first mass-production run, which began this month in China, is for 300,000 laptops, tens of thousands of which are slated to go to U.S. consumers. Mr. Negroponte’s goa...
A Little Laptop With Big AmbitionsNews
The William James Foundation announces its 5th Annual Socially Responsible Business Plan Competition. This competition supports entrepreneurs who are committed to multiple-bottom line businesses (people, planet, profit) by providing entrants with expert feedback and over $40,000 in cash and in-kind prizes to the top plans. Past winners have included business ventures in a wide array of fields ranging from an environmentally sustainable low-income housing developer; portable vaccine p...
William James Foundation to Provide $40,000 in Cash and Prizes to Socially Responsible Business Plan
