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Information about the conference to be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil on September 14, 2010 on the Potential of Private Sector Solutions in Nutrition
Opportunities for the Majority manager Luiz Ros announces the launch of the Corporate Leaders Program for Success in Majority Markets. Through a workshop and a competitive application process, the program seeks to identify and nurture innovative new business models for the BOP in Latin America and the Caribbean.
I’m very excited to announce the launch of the Corporate Leaders Program for Success in Majority Markets. This is an idea we’ve been developing for some time at the IDB’s Opportunities for the Majority initiative. Over the last several years we’ve worked with a range of companies on projects that engage with the base of the pyramid in Latin America and the Caribbean.
News from around the Majority Markets community: New projects, upcoming events and recommended readings, including a tool for companies developing inclusive business models, a University of Michigan workshop on evaluating impact and a series on social entrepreneurship.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development: WBSCD introduced a presentation and simulation tool, “The Inclusive Business Challenge.” This Power Point-based tool is designed to help guide companies through the process of understanding the risks and rewards of developing and launching inclusive business ventures. It was produced by the members of its 2009 Future Leadership Team, a WBSCD program that brings up and coming business professionals together, both to develop leadership skills and to deepen their understanding of the role busines
Staff blogger Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen recently attended the IDB's Annual Board of Governors' Meeting in Cancun, Mexico, and reports that new partnerships are forming between several companies involved in the Opportunities for the Majority Dialogue.
On March 19, I attended the meeting IDB organized in connection with the Annual Board of Governors’ Meeting in Cancun on The Role of the Private Sector in the Economic and Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean. As part of this event, the Opportunities for the Majority initiative organized a panel titled “Scaling the Impact of Market-based Business Models with the Base of the Pyra
Two leading Mexican companies, Mi Tienda and CEMEX, were recognized at the IDB’s Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors in Cancun, Mexico, for their innovative projects that engage with low-income populations in Mexico.
On Friday, March 19, IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno meet with Jose Ignacio Avalos, a leading social entrepreneur who has been instrumental in creating major nonprofit organizations that address critical needs of the poor in Mexico, including Mi Tienda, a company that supplies hundreds of small grocery stores in rural communities in Mexico.
At recent conference, the "Engineering for the Developing World Summit," scientists and academics heard about the important role technology can play in engaging with the base of the pyramid. Staff blogger Elizabeth Terry shares an account of one panel and looks at what the audience might do with this new knowledge.
Late last year we told you about a workshop held in Santiago de Chile for engineering professors from leading Latin American universities, which was all about introducing them to the important role technology can play in making new products and services available to the base of the pyramid.
The six-day Harvard Business School-ACCION Program on Strategic Leadership in Microfinance offers finance leaders from around the world an exceptional opportunity to connect with peers while engaging with some of the HBS faculty's foremost thinkers in business strategy and management.
Cambridge, Mass., USA
Investment funds, technical assistance providers, development agencies, and others actively engaged in unleashing the potential of small and growing business (SGB) throughout Latin America will come together for the first regional conference of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE).
Hotel Granada Convention Center and Lake Resort, Granada, Nicaragua
The second in a series of IDB-hosted Strategic Partners dialogues proposes a forward-looking agenda centered around the topic of market-based strategies and the results they can deliver for the base of the pyramid in the region.
The second in a series of IDB-hosted Strategic Partners’ dialogue proposed a forward-looking agenda centered around the topic of market-based strategies and the results they can deliver for the base of the pyramid in the region. Mixing strategic stock-taking with practical discussion on current issues, a lively dialogue was created that touched different topics, ranging from strategy and innovation to the role of multilateral institutions in this new space.
