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Base of the Pyramid Scaling Series Now Online in One Place
A quick announcement for readers who only caught bits and pieces of the sector scaling series we ran last week and others who just want to see all of the commentary in one place - we recently packaged all of the series in PDF format and posted it in our resources section. For those who...
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Guest Post: Local Innovation And Enterprise – The L-RAMP Model
Guest blogger Arun Sharma is Scouting Lead for Innovations at the Lemelson Recognition and Mentoring Program (L-RAMP). He is also a writer for L-RAMP Blog, which explores trends in social enterprise, innovation, technology and poverty alleviation. By Arun Sharma Meet Dr. Venkata...
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Micro-Innovation: Bringing Billions into the Conversation
Base of the Pyramid (BoP) strategy has a few key tenets, one of which is the power of aggregated demand. Those living at the base of the economic pyramid may have little buying power on their own, but when they are pooled together, their consolidated demand amounts to a viable market. ...
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Taking BoP Strategies To Scale Pt. 5: Concluding Thoughts
This post is the last in a five part series on a radical new approach to scaling BoP business models, what we call a transformative sector strategy. In this segment, I address the six preceding guest posts that commented on this strategy and offer some concluding thoughts. I welcome these...
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Guest Post: Platform Strategies for Scaling
Guest blogger Francisco Mej?a is a Principal in the Opportunities for the Majority Office at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), based in Washington DC. He currently leads the preparation of various transactions involving the financing of BoP projects in leading and innovative...
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Guest Post: John Paul Responds to Al Hammond
Guest blogger John Paul is a Co-Founder and former Managing Editor of Nextbillion.net. He is currently finishing up his MBA at Cornell University, where he has focused on private-sector solutions to global poverty with the school’s Center for Sustainable Global EnterpriseIn this post,...
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Guest Post: The Transformative Sector Approach in Latin America
Guest blogger Emily Fintel is Regional Representative for Strategic Initiatives at Fundaci?n AVINA, one of the largest private foundations in Latin America. AVINA partners with civil society and business leaders to promote sustainable development through a network of twenty-one offices in...
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Guest Post: Taking the BoP Movement To The Next Level
Guest blogger Sagar Gubbi is a technology graduate based in Bangalore with a deep interest in social and environmental sectors in India. He maintains a popular social entrepreneurship blog on Social Edge, and he is the co-founder of ’EcoForge’, an investment advisory and consulting firm...
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