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StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation: NYC 2008
We are all looking for opportunities to develop our ability to address poverty and underserved markets with business solutions. One forum that brings together students and young professionals to connect around these ideas is StartingBloc. I was encouraged to apply to StartingBloc through...
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Kenya Stories – Africa IS Open for Business
NextBillion ally Bill Stevenson - who blogs for Lenovo at The Heart of Business - pointed me to a 6-minute CNN story about a recent TechnoServe business plan competition in Kenya.? Entitled “Believe, Begin, Become,” the competition’s initial 5,000 applicants were whittled down to...
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?How to do Business at the BoP? – Conference Wrap-Up
As Robert Katz posted last week, a BoP Conference entitled ?How to do Business at the BoP? was held on February the 27th in Madrid. The conference had pretty impressive speakers and visitors, since it was mainly directed at the corporate world. Robert was the first speaker of the day. He...
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Exploring the Green-BoP Nexus Pt. 2: Businesses Bridging the Divide
Last week, I discussed the rift the Tata Nano has exposed between environmentalist and poverty-alleviation focused professionals, academics and activists - a car that at once represents aspirations of new material wealth for millions of BoP consumers and a potentially enormous source of new CO2...
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Sun Microsystems’ CEO Schwartz on Emerging Markets and the BoP
I had an interesting meeting today, during which one of the people I was speaking with brought up a talk given by Jonathan Schwartz last August. Schwartz - the CEO of Sun Microsystems - delivers a fascinating talk over about 25 minutes during which he relates important demographic and...
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Can Carbon Offsets Provide Livelihoods for the BoP?
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions ? and, therefore, global warming ? will require a suite of solutions. The scope of traditional conservation efforts is limited, since most of the world is adopting developed-world lifestyles and consumption habits as their incomes rise. Experts and...
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Book Review: The Power of Unreasonable People – How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change
Upon finishing The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World, three words came to mind: it’s about time.? Lately, I’ve felt that the social entrepreneurship movement has grown too large, encompassing too many sub-topics that don’t...
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Book Review: Paul Polak’s Out of Poverty
So far, 2008 has been a great year in terms of attention to BoP and market-based solutions to poverty. Out of Poverty, a new book by Paul Polak, founder of International Development Enterprises (IDE), just hit the shelves this month and will certainly add to this momentum. IDE’s recent...
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