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October 24, 2008 — 11:20 pm
You're sick, so you go to the doctor. He prescribes you drugs. The medicine makes you better, right? Unfortunately, that's not always the case – especially for the billions of people living at the base of the economic pyramid. Taylor Thompson and Nathan Sigworth are on a...
October 24, 2008 — 12:20 am
Brian McCarthy wants to live in a shipping container – seriously. And based on what I’ve seen of his work, I would be thrilled to live in one, too. McCarthy is the founder of PFNC, a manufacturer and provider of affordable housing. PFNC stands for Por Fin, Nuestra Casa – a Spanish...
October 22, 2008 — 11:19 pm
Paul Polak is wearing a sweater vest. This will come as no surprise to anyone who’s met him or seen him speak. The man loves sweaters – cardigans, sweater vests, pullovers. Hell, in Camden today – with temperatures hovering around 40 degrees in the midday sun – Paul’s sweater...
October 22, 2008 — 10:20 pm
Outside, it is grey and rainy, but inside, the Camden library is warm and inviting. Today's special session merited an early arrival to Pop!Tech: Scaling the Bottom of the Pyramid, a 2-hour talk by longtime BoP innovators Paul Polak and Bunker Roy. Bill Gordon, a Pop!Tech board member,...
October 21, 2008 — 07:59 pm
Tomorrow morning, I return to Maine for the annual Pop!Tech conference. For the second consecutive year, NextBillion.net will be live-blogging the event, which brings together 600+ thought leaders for three days of inspiring presentations, performances, discussions and declarations. (I am...
October 21, 2008 — 03:27 pm
All good things must come to an end, including NextBillion.net's coverage of last week's Social Capital Markets conference. SoCap was a 72-hour firestorm of ideas, conversations, impromptu meetings and a lot of blog posts – 22, to be precise. But at the end of the day, what does it...
October 20, 2008 — 02:09 pm
Guest blogger Graham Macmillan is the Senior Director of VisionSpring (formerly Scojo Foundation). In addition to his work with the VisionSpring team, Graham is pursuing his Global EMBA as part of TRIUM, which is a joint program of London School of Economics, HEC Paris, and NYU Stern. He also...
October 20, 2008 — 10:17 am
Aden Van Noppen is a senior at Brown University where she studies International Development. She is also an intern for Acumen Fund, where she works to develop programs that teach college students about private sector solutions to poverty. Aden was formerly an intern for Dalberg Global...
October 17, 2008 — 05:18 pm
Guest blogger Jill Finlayson is the Marketing Manager of Social Edge, the leading online community by and for social entrepreneurs. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley, with a degree in Political Economy. This post first appeared on Social Edge. By Jill Finlayson Yesterday was Blog...
October 17, 2008 — 04:20 pm
Guest blogger Cindy Chen is a 1st-year MBA student at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and is interested in helping businesses incorporate impactful social and environmental factors into the design of profitable strategies. Prior to Haas, Cindy worked on business development and...
