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Why Should Your Company Engage the BoP?
Why do corporations engage with the base of the pyramid? There appear to be several distinctly different answers to this question. My conversations with corporate leaders hoping to pursue social impact and new market growth in BoP markets reveal a frequent lack of clarity about not just how to do it, but more importantly, why they should do it.
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What Contests, Soda, and the Internet Have to do With Distributing Solar Power in Tanzania
Angaza, a runner up in the 2010 Harvard Social Enterprise Pitch for Change Competition, is an enterprise aiming to illuminate the world through modular solar home lighting and battery charging systems. Building on success and challenges of others, we studied a broad range of distribution models to avoid challenges that befall many social startups.
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SOCAP/Europe Kicks Off With Notes of Change
Netherlands Princess M?xima, herself Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development of the Secretary General of the United Nations, kicked of the SOCAP/Europe conference. She was followed by panelests noting the first wave of social entrepreneurship was driven by charismatic individuals, the second wave will be driven by collaboration.
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