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Weekly Roundup April 12-19: Skoll World Forum & Remembering C.K. Prahalad
This past week featured coverage of the Skoll World Forum in Oxford as well as intensive examinations of effective models for reaching the grassroots and ultra-poor levels in Pakistan and Bangladesh respectively. Following his untimely death, we’ve begun featuring remembrances of C.K. Prahalad.
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Remembering CK Prahalad – A Colleague’s Reflection
The untimely death of CK Prahalad has given me reason to pause and reflect on just how important this man has been, not only to the world, but to me personally. I first met him in 1985, as a recently-minted Ph.D. joining the faculty at the University of Michigan. At the time, I had little idea just how influential and life-shaping...
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Inside the Skoll World Forum: Climate Change
When you?re in a room and Larry Brilliant, Nick Moon and Mark Fulton are asking questions of the panelists, you know you?ve struck gold. This was one of two sessions explicitly on climate change at the Skoll World Forum, and it was focused on the post-Copenhagen world and the debate over top-down political accords versus bottom-up action.
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