Articles by Rob Katz
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Wednesday
October 17
2007Pop!Tech – A Quiet Town Comes Alive
Greetings from Camden, Maine - site of Pop!Tech 2007 and the “quiet town” referred to in this post’s title. I arrived here last night, after a short flight into Portland and a drive up Route 1 along the Maine coast. There’s not a whole lot going on in Camden - it’s...
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Monday
October 15
2007NextBillion Goes to PopTech This Week
Every fall, a small seaside town in Maine hosts an ideas festival called Pop!Tech.? In the past, I’ve jealously followed conference coverage on the blogosphere, trying to picture myself wedged between Bruce Sterling and Stewart Brand while they discuss the future of environmentalism (for...
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Friday
October 12
2007“Next Billion” Thinking and Big Business
Guest blogger Bill Kramer was, until recently, WRI?s Director of Education and Training for the Markets & Enterprise Program, and Deputy Director of Development Through Enterprise. He now runs Global Challenge Network, an executive education and training company. His email is...
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Friday
October 12
2007Guest Post: Coping With Abundance
Guest blogger Bill Kramer was, until recently, WRI?s Director of Education and Training for the Markets & Enterprise Program, and? Deputy Director of Development Through Enterprise.? He now runs Global Challenge Network, an executive education and training company. His email is...
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Monday
October 1
2007Sustainability Reports, SMEs, and the BoP
Who reads the thousands of sustainability reports that corporations release each year? And more importantly, what do they think of them? As of today, there is a better way to answer those important questions. The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and its partners?including the World...
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Wednesday
September 26
2007Let’s Get (BoP Businesses) Started in Here: Doing Business 2008 Released
NextBillion ally Chris Monasterski, editor of the excellent PSD Blog, wrote me a short e-mail this evening alerting me to the release of the 2008 Doing Business rankings.? This year marks the fifth edition of the annual rankings, which measures the ease of doing business in 178 countries...
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Monday
September 24
2007Guest Post: Africa Needs Entrepreneurial Infrastructure
Guest blogger Andrew Mack is the Founder and Principal of AMGlobal Consulting, and a former World Bank official. He blogs at Andy’s Global View and can be reached at: contact@amglobal.com By Andrew Mack In his piece last month about “incremental infrastructure", Ethan...
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Thursday
September 20
2007Guest Post: Dr. Nancy Landrum on “Advancing the BoP Debate”
Dr. Nancy E. Landrum is Associate Professor of strategic management at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.? Her teaching, research, and consulting expertise are in strategic management, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability.? Dr. Landrum received her Ph.D. from New Mexico...
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