I was inspired to say a few things on this blog after attending an IMD webcast this week. Hopefully the current students and the rest of the Project Pyramid team will not mind if an old alum says a few things. The webcast interview was with Dr. Iqbal Quadir and his experience with the […]

Ebenezer Aryee, a current Owen MBA candidate, is also a member of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Sudan. Eben has served in many other locations with the UN, including Rwanda when all other countries pulled their troops out of the country. Sudan has become a humanitarian crisis of great magnitude, with over 2.5 […]

Today’s class was by far the best of the semester in terms of sparking debate surrounding the role of companies, NGO’s, and individuals at the Bottom of the Pyramid. In particular, we were discussing the provision of healthcare, which is particularly meaningful to many of the students in the class who are in the […]

Thanks to Dana Bushell for sending along this link to a story on Kiva, an online clearinghouse for matching individual lenders/donors with budding entrepreneurs around the world. Kiva dispells the myth that you have to have a lot of money to make a difference- all they solicit is $25 toward the entrepreneur/project of your […]

(hat tip - Bart Victor)
In a front page article for the Wall Street Journal, the author describes the the process and the problems (subscription required) of building out the mobile phone network in rural India. The promise: a template that can be applied to other regions.
India, with most of its people living in villages in […]