Please see the documents linked below for the information regarding the Owen project Pyramid class to take place in the spring of 2009 that will focus on the design of specific projects in the areas of Economic Development, Education, Health, Energey, and Water. You’ll als find a link to the application to go on […]

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 […]

The Bottom of the Pyramid class had an opportunity to hear from Cal Turner, former CEO of Dollar General. Cal’s grandfather and father started Dollar General when they pioneered the idea of a general store selling everything for less than 1 dollar in 1939 in Scottsville, Kentucky. The idea quickly caught on and […]