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July 1, 2009 — 04:02 pm
Husk Power Systems, a company we profiled here on NextBillion back in October, was announced today as the winner of the Global Business Plan competition sponsored by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Cisco Systems. As the winning entrant, Husk Power walks away with $250,000 in seed funding, which they will use to build and operate more power plants...
July 1, 2009 — 07:00 am
Well, there won't be half a million of us, but as Bill Baue noted in a recent CSR Wire article, the Social Capital Markets conference (2009 vintage) is quickly shaping up to be an important event for our generation of changemakers, investors, intrapreneurs, policymakers and innovators.
June 23, 2009 — 10:53 am
Intellecap launched Beyond Profit, a print and online magazine dedicated to the businesses, people and ideas within the social enterprise space, on April 28. The inaugural issue was released at Sankalp 2009, South Asia’s largest social enterprise business and investment forum.
June 22, 2009 — 06:00 pm
In this vein, I am really excited to learn about a truly innovative "non-conference". Maker Faire Africa, which will be held in Ghana this August, is no-talk, all-action. The 3-day event will bring together roboticists, hobbyists, blacksmiths - MAKERS - to jam collectively on home-grown solutions to local problems.
June 16, 2009 — 07:09 am
NextBillion announces a unique opportunity for our community to participate in a global online conference called “The Role of the Private Sector in Poverty Alleviation at the Base of the Pyramid” hosted by Base of the Pyramid expert Monica Touesnard.
June 11, 2009 — 06:00 am
Incentives. Results. How to align incentives to achieve real results is one of my many takeaways from the past 2 days, which I spent at the incentive2innovate conference, a non-traditional gathering of big business types, entrepreneurs, policymakers and non-profits...
June 4, 2009 — 05:55 pm
The audience at the 92nd Street Y sat and listened politely as a series of wingtip-shod introductory speakers took turns at the lectern. But when the cowboy boots hit the stage, the audience went nuts. Why? Those boots belong to Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States and now Chairman of Generation Investment Management.
June 1, 2009 — 05:38 pm
This afternoon in New York, the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University convened its inaugural Global Forum on Sustainable Enterprise in New York City. One hundred practitioners will participate as delegates for two days of working sessions.
May 17, 2009 — 01:42 pm
Greetings from Delhi, where tomorrow I will attend the Emerging Markets, Emerging Models conference convened by the Monitor Group. If you have not yet heard of Monitor's eponymous report, I urge you to take the time to read it. Staff writer Allen Hammond agrees, calling it "a must read!" Why is it a must read - and why is there a whole...
May 15, 2009 — 02:04 am
Recently, Vijay combined his interest in social causes with his writing ambitions to enter the BOP Learning Lab’s base of the pyramid essay competition with an essay entitled Promoting Sanitation, Empowering Communities. Vijay and co-author Amit Gupta took 3rd place in the competition; more importantly, they took a great step...
