Ted London just sent me the latest conference announcement for the UMich/Cornell BoP conference in September. You can see more below, as well as a link to the latest Conference Announcement (PDF).
Please pass the announcement on to people who may be interested in attending. Space is limited.
Patrick
www.bop2007.org
BUSINESS WITH FOUR BILLION
Creating Mutual Value at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP)
September 9-11, 2007. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
A BoP Conference Bringing Together a Community of Leading Thinkers:
Business executives l Policy Makers l Academics l non-Profit leaders
This conference will address:
- Developing a deeper understanding of the BoP landscape
- Comparing a BoP approach to other development strategies
- Developing the capabilities required to achieve both business growth and poverty alleviation
Keynote Speakers:
- CK Prahalad, University of Michigan
- Stuart Hart, Cornell University
Additional SPEAKERS:
- Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American Development Bank
- Helene Gayle, President, CARE USA
- Al Hammond, Vice President of Innovations, World Resources Institute
- Scott Johnson, Vice President of Global Environment and Safety Actions, SC Johnson
- and more…
Links:
About a year ago Ted London, Director of the Base of the Pyramid research initiative at the William Davidson Institute (WDI), kindly asked me to come out to the University of Michigan Business School to do a guest lecture in his MBA class Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid. Ted was previously a professor and Director of the BoP Learning Lab at UNC while I was a student there and we had worked together on project to explore innovative business models for renewable energy technologies in the BoP. During my visit to Michigan - which also included a guest lecture for Mike Gordon’s Social Enterprise: Innovation in the Information Society course - Ted also interviewed me about my experiences working in the BoP and with the BoP Protocol in Kenya.
The interview was part of WDI’s Global Impact Speaker series, which includes interviews with Stuart Hart of Cornell University, Jesse Moore of CARE, Dr. Jordan Kassalow of the Scojo Foundation, Somshankar Das of e4e, and a number of others. I came across the video for the interview recently and you can see the video via the link below.
I also had lunch with a number of students to discuss career options in the BoP and was thrilled to meet up with one of the students several months later in India, where she was working on a BoP initiative of her own!
WDI Links:
The interview is a little under an hour.
-Patrick
Windows Media format)
