Collection: Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise
- Alex Counts Discusses Beginnings Of Microfinance
- Alex Counts Discusses Development of Rural Energy Company, Grameen Shakti
- Alex Counts Discusses Disadvantages Faced By Women In Gaining Funding and How Microfinance Helps Alleviate That Issue
- Alex Counts Discusses Grameen Foundation's Role In Advancing Microfinance
- Alex Counts Discusses Impact and Success of Cell Phones In Areas of Poverty
- Alex Counts Discusses Impact Of Opportunity To Work With Muhammad Yunus
- Alex Counts Discusses Initial Challenges Faced By Grameen Foundation
- Alex Counts Discusses Use of Microfinance As A Tool To Empower Women
- Alex Counts Provides Overview on Concept of Microfinance
- Alex Counts States Global Problems Can Be Solved If You Break The Problem Into Small Pieces and Make People Feel Empowered
- Alex Counts States Once You Start Growing And Have Momentum, You Don't Want To Stop
- Alex Counts States Role As Social Entrepreneur Began With Experience At Cornell University
- Andrew Savitz Defines Concept of Sustainability Jujitsu
- Andrew Savitz Discusses Challenges Facing The World As China And India Increase Standard of Living
- Andrew Savitz Discusses Current Sustainability Consulting Practice
- Andrew Savitz Discusses Handling Client Relationships
- Andrew Savitz Discusses Impact of Internet on Conveying Information
- Andrew Savitz Discusses Importance of Developing Expertise in a Specific Area
- Andrew Savitz Provides Definition of Global Reporting Initiative
- Andrew Savitz Shares Thoughts on Being An Intellectual Entrepreneur
- Andrew Savitz Shares Thoughts on Going To Law School
- Andrew Savitz States Consultants Need To Be Able To Prioritize
- Andrew Savitz States Environmental Metrics Have Become More Quantifiable
- Andrew Savitz States Importance of Changing Private Sector From Focusing on Wealth To Focusing on Common Wealth
- Andrew Savitz States Small Business Have Led The Way In Terms of Sustainability
- Andrew Savitz States Sustainability Is Difficult To Measure Because It Is More Layered
- Andrew Savitz States There Is Still Skepticism About Sustainability
- Andrew Savitz States Witnessing Homelessness In Paris Impacted His Professional Career Choices
- Bruce McNamer Discusses Background of TechnoServe
- Bruce McNamer Discusses Business Approach to Alleviation of Poverty
- Bruce McNamer Discusses Career Opportunities In Nonprofit and NGO Sectors
- Bruce McNamer Discusses Challenges of Being An Entrepeneur In A Region Where There Was No Previous Business Activity
- Bruce McNamer Discusses Empowerment and Organization of Coffee Farmers in Africa
- Bruce McNamer Discusses Fundamental Shift In Getting BOP Suppliers To Think of Themselves As Businesspeople
- Bruce McNamer Discusses Identification of Sectors and Importance of Being Involved Locally
- Bruce McNamer States Base of Pyramid Numbers Can Be Overwhelming But You Have To Start Somewhere
- Bruce McNamer States Impotance of Working For Change By Interacting With Local Government Groups In Emerging Market Countries
- Bruce McNamer States Increasing Marketplace Competition Helps BOP Consumers
- Bruce McNamer States TechnoServe Helps Broker Access To Capital and Provides Business Development Assistance
- Chris Laszlo Describes How Corporations Are Pushing Regulators To Enact More Environmental Regulations
- Chris Laszlo Discusses Environmental, Social and Economic Convergence
- Chris Laszlo Discusses How Dupont Restructured Itself To Create More Shareholder Value While Also Becoming More Sustainable
- Chris Laszlo Shares Example of How Wal-Mart Made Trucking Fleet More Sustainable
- Chris Laszlo Shares Example of Wal-Mart's Changes In Store Operations To Increase Sustainability
- Chris Laszlo States Companies Need To Address Societal, Environmental and Social Issues To Remain Competitive
- Chris Laszlo States Environmental Benefits Are Seen As A Plus One My Consumers
- Chris Laszlo States Environmentalism Has Changed From Stopping The Bad To Fostering The Good
- Chris Laszlo States Increasing Transparency Is Changing Competitive Environment For Companies
- Chris Laszlo States Societal Expectations Are Driving Corporate Strategies
- Chris Laszlo States Sustainability In Large Organizations Is Becoming Less About Compliance and More About Breakthrough Innovation
- Chris Laszlo States Sustainability Needs To Be Treated Like Any Other Business Opportunity
- Chris Laszlo States Wal-Mart Decided To Pursue Sustainability Practices As A Defensive Tactic
- Cornell Team - Principled Investments Pitch - Part 1
- Cornell Team - Principled Investments Pitch - Part 2
- Dickinson Team Pitch
- Douglas McMeekin Discusses Desire To Keep Local Food Traditions Alive
- Douglas McMeekin Discusses Desire To Look At Development Programs With Broad View
- Douglas McMeekin Discusses Desperate Need For Healthcare In Local Ecuador Communities
- Douglas McMeekin Discusses Developing Entrepreneurial Mindset and Skills Among Indigenous People In Ecuador
- Douglas McMeekin Discusses Early Experiences as a Student And Decision To Move To Ecuador
- Douglas McMeekin Discusses Education That Yachana Is Providing To Local Students
- Douglas McMeekin Discusses Evolution of Projects Launched By Yachana Foundation
- Douglas McMeekin Discusses Evolution of Role In Organization
- Douglas McMeekin Discusses Hybrid Business Model
- Douglas McMeekin Discusses Importance of Yachana's Education Projects
- Douglas McMeekin Discusses Inspiration Behind Founding Of Yachana Foundation
- Douglas McMeekin Discusses Remote Location
- Douglas McMeekin Discusses Vision For Yachana
- Douglas McMeekin Discusses Yachana Gourmet
- Douglas McMeekin States Entrepreneurs Need To Take Risks
- Douglas McMeekin States Financing Is A Perpetual Challenge
- Douglas McMeekin States Importance of Engaging Local Community In Development of Yachana Lodge
- Douglas McMeekin States Yachana's Biggest Challenge Is Economic
- Erik Simanis Discusses Advantages From Community Side of BoP Relationship
- Erik Simanis Discusses Challenges With Integrated Management of BoP Projects
- Erik Simanis Discusses Importance of Embedding Company Resources In BoP Projects From Beginning
- Erik Simanis Discusses Skepticism Surrounding BoP Endeavors
- Erik Simanis Provides Overview of SC Johnson's and Solae Company's Involvement With Cornell and BoP Protocol
- Gil Crawford Discusses Challenge of Measuring Impact In A Not For Profit
- Gil Crawford Discusses Challenges of Building a Not For Profit
- Gil Crawford Discusses Experience At Chase and Decision To Create Seed Capital Development Fund
- Gil Crawford Discusses Impact of Working In Africa After Graduate School
- Gil Crawford Discusses Importance of Developing Leadership Skills and Developing a Network of Advisors
- Gil Crawford Discusses Importance of Understanding How Country Risk Will Impact Microfinance Institution
- Gil Crawford Discusses Microvest's First Fund
- Gil Crawford Discusses Myths Related To Microfinance and States Microfinance Is Actually Less Risky
- Gil Crawford Discusses Personal Academic Background
- Gil Crawford Discusses Second Microvest Fund
- Gil Crawford Provides Overview of Microfinance
- Gil Crawford Provides Overview to Company Microvest
- Gil Crawford Provides Suggestions For Courses To Take As An Undergrad If You Plan To Become and Entrepreneur
- Gil Crawford States Importance of Being Able To Return Investor's Money
- Gil Crawford States Importance of Having Understanding Of Entire System In Microfinance
- Gil Crawford States Microfinance Is A Wonderful Example of a BoP Business
- Introductory Video of Jessica Flannery
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Challenge In Combining Speed of Internet With Slow Pace of Relationship Building on Microfinance Side
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Challenge of Balancing Kiva With Business School and States Importance of Believing In Yourself
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Challenge of Communicating a New Idea That Doesn't Fit Into a Box
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Current Challenge of Making Kiva Sustainable
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Decision To Become Involved In Microfinance
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Decision To Go To Stanford For MBA
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Decision To Hire General Counsel
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Excitement Over the Social Experiment That Kiva Turned Out To Be
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Founding Of Kiva And That It Started Small But Had Opportunity To Scale
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Goodwill Generated By Being a Non-Profit
- Jessica Flannery Discusses How Kiva Adjusts To Work With Entrepreneurs
- Jessica Flannery Discusses How Kiva Has Grown Into An Online Marketplace
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Impact of First Hand Experience With Entrepreneurs Receiving Microfinance in East Africa
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Impact Of MBA On Her Professional Goals
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Impact of Press and Blogs on Kiva
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Importance of Being Passionate About What You Do
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Importance of Starting Small So You Can Test Your Idea
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Involvement With Village Enterprise Fund And Initial Experience in Africa
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Kiva's Staffing And Controls
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Personal Background and Decision To Spend Career Focusing On Alleviation of Poverty
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Personal Role at Kiva
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Placement of Loan Cap on Lenders
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Relationship With Microfinance Partners
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Strategic Planning and Goal Setting At Kiva
- Jessica Flannery Discusses Why Kiva Community Works
- Jessica Flannery Expresses Desire To Eventually Document How Extra Spread Is Being Used
- Jessica Flannery Provides Overview of Kiva's Fellows Program
- Jessica Flannery Shares Anecdote of Bridges That Exist Between Developing and Developed World
- Jessica Flannery Shares Story Behind Beta Round of Kiva
- Jessica Flannery Shares Thoughts on Area of Social Entrepreneurship
- Jessica Flannery Shares Thoughts on Keeping Kiva Afloat
- Jessica Flannery Shares Thoughts on PR and Impact of Being First Person In A Space
- Jessica Flannery States Company's Mission Is To Connect People
- Jessica Flannery States Entrepreneurship In The Developing World Is Different But Still Centers on Innovation
- Jessica Flannery States Good Organizations Need To Learn From Better Organizations Regardless Of Whether Or Not They're Not-for-Profits
- Jessica Flannery States Importance Of Continuing To Work On Core Strengths
- Jessica Flannery States Importance of Drawing Boundaries Between Work and Home
- Jessica Flannery States Importance of Transparency and Honesty In Organization
- Jessica Flannery States Initial Rejection From Business School Led To Founding of Kiva
- Jessica Flannery States Many Changes Caused By Microfinance Are Not Quantifiable
- Jessica Flannery States She Learned More In The First Two Weeks Of The Business Than In The Year Of Research She Had Done Beforehand
- Jessica Flannery States When You Provide a Loan Via Kiva You Actually Provide Money Directly To An Entrepreneur
- Justin DeKoszmovszky Discusses Eco-Efficiency and BOP Efforts at SC Johnson
- Justin DeKoszmovszky Discusses Involvement In BOP Learning Lab Co Sponsored By Cornell and SC Johnson
- Justin DeKoszmovszky Discusses Selling BOP Initiative Internally At SC Johnson
- Justin DeKoszmovszky Discusses Special Aspects of BOP Market That Traditional Western R&D Has To Consider
- Justin DeKoszmovszky Discusses Triple Bottom Line Approach
- Justin DeKoszmovszky Shares Specific Challenges Encountered In Kenya's Political Environment
- Justin DeKoszmovszky States Business Questions and Challenges That Face BOP Consumers and Producers Are Not All New
- Justin DeKoszmovszky States Career Opportunities In BOP Space Are More Fractured But Definitely In Demand
- Justin DeKoszmovszky States SC Johnson's Goal Is To Partner With BOP To Co-Create Businesses
- Justin DeKoszmovszky States Working To Develop BOP Businesses Has Required a Shift In Traditional Business Development Thinking
- Kobus DeKlerk Discusses Competitive Advantage With Regards To BoP
- Kobus DeKlerk Discusses Importance of Working Towards Extrapolating a Business Model
- Kobus DeKlerk Discusses Solae Company's Involvement In BoP Protocol
- Kobus DeKlerk Shares Thoughts on Relationship Between BoP Philosophy and Return on Investment (ROI)
- Kobus DeKlerk States Importance of Understanding Needs and Aspirations of NGOs
- Kobus DeKlerk States Importance of Understanding The People and The Competencies Involved In The BoP Protocol Process
- Mo Ibrahim Discusses Importance of Transparency and Strong Corporate Governance at Celtel
- Mo Ibrahim Discusses Inaccurate Picture That People Think Of With Regards To Africa
- Mo Ibrahim Discusses Job Creation and Building Infrastructure
- Mo Ibrahim Discusses Realization That Access To Cell Phones Created Equity In Africa
- Mo Ibrahim Shares Lessons Learned From Working In Multinational Corporation
- Mo Ibrahim Shares Thoughts on Democracy And States Need For Structure
- Mo Ibrahim Shares Thoughts On Executive Compensation
- Mo Ibrahim States Africa Is An Open Frontier
- Mo Ibrahim States Ethical Businesses Have To Have Social Value
- Mo Ibrahim States Importance of Being Able To Make The Decision To Walk Away
- Mo Ibrahim States Innovation Comes From The Private Sector
- Peter Hamilton Describes Entrepreneurship At The Base Of The Pyramid
- Peter Hamilton Dicusses Origins Of Venture Capital Firm, Plebys
- Peter Hamilton Discusses Challenges In Local Management And Leadership When Working With BOP Entrepreneurs
- Peter Hamilton Discusses Challenges Of Managing The Deal Flow
- Peter Hamilton Discusses Difference Between Traditional VCs and Venture Development And Management
- Peter Hamilton Discusses Early Professional Experience, Masters Program and Working Abroad
- Peter Hamilton Discusses Emotional Component To Raising Funds At Plebys
- Peter Hamilton Discusses Exit Strategy at Plebys
- Peter Hamilton Discusses Importance of Having Understanding of Economics When In Business
- Peter Hamilton Discusses Important Takeaways from Technology Background and MBA Program
- Peter Hamilton Discusses Relationship Between Plebys And Cornell
- Peter Hamilton Discusses Role At Plebys
- Peter Hamilton Discusses Tech Transfer Offices At Universities
- Peter Hamilton Discusses Technology Coming Out Of BOP
- Peter Hamilton Explains Value Proposition Of WaterHealth
- Peter Hamilton Offers Advice For Students Seeking To Work With The BOP
- Peter Hamilton States MBA Program Exposed Him To Career In Venture Capital
- Scarlett Alvarez Discusses BoP-Focused Hydroelectric Project in Panama
- Scarlett Alvarez Discusses Importance of Communication
- Scarlett Alvarez Discusses Initial Work With Base of Pyramid (BoP) Market Segment
- Scarlett Alvarez Discusses Involvement of Government In Marketing To BoP
- Scarlett Alvarez Discusses Manner In Which She Convinced BoP Market To Become Formal Utility Customers
- Scarlett Alvarez Discusses Modifications To The Social Tariff so BoP Can Feel Like Contributors To Society
- Scarlett Alvarez Discusses Prepaid Meter System Program
- Scarlett Alvarez Discusses Success of Project Targeting BoP Market
- Scarlett Alvarez Discusses The Electrical Round Table and Interaction With The Community
- Scarlett Alvarez Provides Background of AES Corporation and Discusses Current Role At Company
- Scarlett Alvarez States Implementation of Public Lighting Made Safer Spaces
- Scarlett Alvarez States Importance of Engaging The Community
- Scarlett Alvarez States Importance of Gaining Confidence of BoP Market
- Scarlett Alvarez States Social Workers Opened Door To BoP Market
- Scott Johnson Discusses Changes in New Product Development Strategies When Targeting BOP
- Scott Johnson Discusses Future Vision For BoP Work Within SC Johnson
- Scott Johnson Discusses SC Johnson's Commitment To Base of Pyramid Concept
- Scott Johnson States BoP As A Marketing Strategy Is Difficult To Prove Upfront
- Scott Johnson States BoP Involvement Is A Two-Way Street
- Scott Johnson Views Implementation of BoP Protocols As Living Laboratory
- Stephen Kaplitt Discusses Business Proposals From Developing Countries
- Stephen Kaplitt Discusses How EESR Leverages and Complements US Foreign Development Programs
- Stephen Kaplitt Discusses Inspiration Behind EESR
- Stephen Kaplitt Discusses Personal and Academic Background
- Stephen Kaplitt Discusses Similarities and Differences Between Kiva and EESR
- Stephen Kaplitt Discusses Specific Mission of EESR
- Stephen Kaplitt Discusses States There Is No Predefined Way To Help Entrepreneurs In Developing Countries
- Stephen Kaplitt Discusses The EESR Initiative
- Stephen Kaplitt Provides Outline of How EESR Operates
- Stephen Kaplitt Shares Example of Why Best Business Ideas Are Generated Locally
- Stephen Kaplitt Shares Thoughts on Links Between Poverty and Terrorism
- Stephen Kaplitt States Job Creation Is a Matter of Survival In Many Areas of the World
- Stephen Kaplitt States Presumption That Market Will Help Determine Value
- Stephen Kaplitt States Successful Outcomes Result In Entrepreneurs Generating The Connections They Need
- Stuart Hart Discusses Applied Research Program at SGE
- Stuart Hart Discusses Article In Harvard Business Review on Beyond Greening
- Stuart Hart Discusses Backlash Against BOP Concept
- Stuart Hart Discusses Challenge of Enabling All Humans On The Planet To Live The Capitalist Dream
- Stuart Hart Discusses Commercialization Opportunities In Blending Of Clean Tech and BOP
- Stuart Hart Discusses Concept of Becoming Indigenous and Using Native Capabilities
- Stuart Hart Discusses Concept of the Pyramid Protocol
- Stuart Hart Discusses Cornell Global Forum for Sustainable Enterprise
- Stuart Hart Discusses Development of BOP Protocol
- Stuart Hart Discusses Educational Background and Decision To Focus on Environmental Issues
- Stuart Hart Discusses Emergence From World War II
- Stuart Hart Discusses Explosive Impact of Micro Finance
- Stuart Hart Discusses Growth of Johnson School's Center For Sustainable Global Enterprise (SGE)
- Stuart Hart Discusses History of Environmentally Friendly Practices Being Seen As A Cost
- Stuart Hart Discusses Key Staff Members In The SGE
- Stuart Hart Discusses Need For New Approach For Engaging With BOP Markets
- Stuart Hart Discusses Need For Private Sector Involvement
- Stuart Hart Discusses Pathways To Sustainable Enterprise
- Stuart Hart Discusses PhD Work In Strategic Decision Making
- Stuart Hart Discusses Slow Adaptation Of Bottom Of The Pyramid Concept
- Stuart Hart Discusses The Concept of Clean Technology
- Stuart Hart Discusses The Concept of the Learning Lab
- Stuart Hart Discusses Triple Bottom Line
- Stuart Hart Discusses Vision Behind The Johnson School's Center For Sustainable Global Enterprise (SGE)
- Stuart Hart Discusses Whether Change Is More Likely At Top or Base of Pyramid
- Stuart Hart Provides Better Phrases To Capture The Concept of Sustainability
- Stuart Hart Provides Definition For BOP or Base of Pyramid
- Stuart Hart Shares Example of How Sustainable Light Sources Could Trickle Up
- Stuart Hart Shares Example of Providing Dependable Light For Base Of Pyramid
- Stuart Hart Shares Thoughts on the Concept of Beyond Greening
- Stuart Hart Shares Thoughts on the Concept of Greening
- Stuart Hart States Appropriate Technology For Introduction To Underserved Is Not Always Low Tech
- Stuart Hart States China and India Are Producing Solar Solutions For BOP Market
- Stuart Hart States Concept of Beyond Greening Is Sustainable Enterprise Serving The Underserved
- Stuart Hart States Creating Needs Is More Challenging Than Fulfilling Existing Needs
- Stuart Hart States Current Crossroads Are A Result Of Unresolved Issues of the 19th Century
- Stuart Hart States Entrepreneurship Is About Fulfilling Needs In A New and Creative Way
- Stuart Hart States Global Capitalism Is At A Crossroads
- Stuart Hart States He Is Fearful But Optimistic About The Future
- Stuart Hart States Importance of Remaining Optimistic When In A Crisis
- Stuart Hart States Imposing Guilt On The Top Of The Pyramid Will Not Encourage A Leap Forward
- Stuart Hart States It Is Easier To Add Features To A Low Cost Platform Than Take Cost Out of A High Cost Platform
- Stuart Hart States Large Corporations and Western Entrepreneurs Should Be As Involved As NGOs
- Stuart Hart States lean Tech Initiatives Need To Focus On Commercialization Strategies
- Stuart Hart States Multinational Organizations Don't Have To Be Threats
- Stuart Hart States Multinationals Need Local Partners
- Stuart Hart States NGOs Have Great Ideas But They Need Help From Global Corporations For Scaling and Delivery
- Stuart Hart States Planet Is At An Environmental, Social and Economic Tipping Point
- Stuart Hart States Problems Being Addressed In 1960s Were Same As In 1890s
- Stuart Hart States Product Stewardship Involves Thinking About Entire Life Cycle of the Product
- Stuart Hart States Providing Alternatives To The BOP Could Aid In Ending Terrorism
- Stuart Hart States SGE Offers Study Based Around BOP Learning Laboratories
- Stuart Hart States SGE Offers Study Based Around Sustainable Innovation Learning Laboratories
- Stuart Hart States Society Is Beginning To Understand That Environmental Choices To Not Mean Financial Trade-Offs
- Stuart Hart States Surprise At The Length Of Time It Has Taken To Get People To Realize The Global Crisis We Are Facing
- Stuart Hart States Sustainability Can Fuel The Entrepreneurial Process
- Stuart Hart States Sustainability Has Multiple Definitions
- Stuart Hart States Sustainability Is A Bad Word For What Is A Dynamic Process
- Stuart Hart States Sustainability Is Not About Being A Tree Hugger - But Is About Facing Some of The Biggest Business Opportunities Of the Future
- Stuart Hart States Sustainability Is Still Ill Defined
- Stuart Hart States Sustainability Needs To Make The Jump To The Mass Market
- Stuart Hart States Sustainability Offers Up Opportunity To Be Creative
- Stuart Hart States Sustainability Programs In The Business School Attract A More Diverse Pool of Applicants
- Stuart Hart States Sustainable Business Requires You To Be A Renaissance Person
- Stuart Hart States Sustainable Development Can Provide Opportunities For The BOP
- Stuart Hart States Technology Must Be Optimized Based on Real Needs - Not Top of Pyramid Needs
- Stuart Hart States That This Current Human Generation May Be Presented With The Most Important Decisions To Make
- Stuart Hart States Undergraduate Professors Excited Him About Environmental Issues
- Stuart Hart States University Focus On Topic of Sustainability Is Simply Another Avenue To Bring The Topic Into The Academic Setting
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