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March 2, 2010 — 10:00 am
I've been chatting with a number of my students in Social Venture Creation about their commitment to their projects post class. To my delight, many are strongly considering moving forward to launch because of the state of the jobs market. And even better, they are recruiting their colleagues to join on!
February 9, 2010 — 11:19 am
I'm pleased to let the NextBillion community know that we had over 20 submissions to the first annual NextBillion Case Writing Competition from teams all over the world!
February 3, 2010 — 08:00 am
I'm a big believer in student-formed social ventures. Students are arguably in the best position to start a social venture. They have incredible support, access to unbelievable resources, and can take on risk that others can't.
January 14, 2010 — 01:00 pm
WDI has sponsored The Next: 2010 Case Writing Competition. I have already received a number of entries, from schools in New York to Toronto to New Delhi. We are thrilled at the response so far and can't wait to read the final cases. And as a reminder, if you want to enter the competition, the intention to compete forms are due this Friday.
December 11, 2009 — 08:00 am
The Next:2010 Case Writing Competition is an excellent way to contribute to the emerging field of business for social impact and interact with leading figures in the space. But to enter, you must complete an Intention to Compete Form by January 15, 2010.
November 9, 2009 — 09:42 am
The new UofM Social Venture Creation Course seeks to be an innovative, action-based learning laboratory that brings students (both undergrads and grads) across disciplines to work on solving society’s challenges – together.
November 4, 2009 — 07:30 am
According to Thinkers 50, a biennial ranking of business gurus, C.K. Prahalad is the most influential management thinker in the world. This is the second straight time that Prahalad has topped the list. Now C.K. Prahalad has released two new BoP case studies: Jaipur Rugs and Bharti Airtel.
September 29, 2009 — 09:26 am
In Professor Gautam Kaul’s course “Finance and the Sustainable Enterprise” at the Ross School of Business, we recently had a lengthy and very profound discussion on sustainability and interest rates. Yes, that’s right: interest rates. You didn’t read this wrong. (And please don’t stop reading now)
September 9, 2009 — 05:55 pm
Professor Gautam Kaul, Professor of Finance at the Ross School of Business, has agreed to put his course entitled, "Finance and the Sustainable Enterprise," online for faculty at other schools to use. The course is unique in that it looks at the issue of environmental and social sustainability through an economics and finance perspective.
August 23, 2009 — 04:00 am
BoP critic Aneel Karnani and I decided to put our energy into writing a case study on the topic of vision correction in the developing world. In the case study, we looked at two enterprises - Essilor and VisionSpring - that are trying to address global uncorrected refractive error by selling eyeglasses.
