Over at DealScape.com, Luxottica recently acquired two South African eye wear chains. While the focus appears to be a more fashionable, urban demographic, this could lead to more availability of eye care through the LensCrafter and Pearle Vision chains.
Similar to the Aravind Eye Care case study in Prahalad’s Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, […]

(hat tip Bobby Molina)
Dr. Muhammad Yunus’s recent Nobel Peace Prize has generated yet another believer in microlending. Check out the recent article in Slate examining and comparing six of the major microlenders, including Acción, Grameen Foundation, and Kiva.
We were lucky enough to have Kiva.org’s founder, Jessica Jackley Flannery, as one of the first speakers […]