http://www.nextbillion.net/node/3968 Comments for "Harvard Business School: Global Poverty Seminar Series" en http://www.nextbillion.net/node/3968 <div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="flexinode-7-start"><label>Start: </label>Apr 23 2007 - 15:30</div></div> <div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="flexinode-7-end"><label>End: </label>Apr 23 2007 - 17:00</div></div> <div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="flexinode-7-tz"><label>Timezone: </label>Etc/GMT-5</div></div> <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-7"><div class="flexinode--40"> <strong>Location: </strong><br /> Hawes Room 202, Harvard Business School Campus</div> <div class="flexinode--39"> <strong>description: </strong><br /> <p>Title: The Next 4 Billion: Market Size &amp; Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid</p><p>Speaker: William J. Kramer, Deputy Director, Development Through Enterprise Program, World Resources Institute</p><p>Description: The thesis that private sector engagement with low-income populations is good both for business and for economic development has been the subject of a number of popular business books by academics including Stuart Hart  and C.K. Prahalad.  Until now, the private sector approach has been characterized largely by theories buttressed with some intriguing business examples.  Now comes the first data-driven look at the BOP from the World Resources Institute, based on unique access to national household surveys.  What do the data reveal?</p><br class="clear" /></div> </div> http://www.nextbillion.net/node/3968#comment TheNext4Billion Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:47:18 -0500 Julia Tran 3968 at http://www.nextbillion.net