February, 2007
The Base of the Pyramid Protocol pilot program in Kenya is highlighted in this article that includes a quote from Professor Stuart Hart and interview of alumni Justin DeKoszmovsky (MBA '06), who began to work on the project while he was still an MBA student.
SC Johnson talks about being a member of the BoP Learning Lab and the BoP Protocol.
Prominent foreign academics were among the fifty participants in the first two-day Base of the Pyramid Learning Laboratory (BoP Lab) in South Africa that took place at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) in December. The purpose of the Laboratory was to debate and promote sustainable development by making markets and organisations work for the poor in southern Africa.
The WF Kellogg Foundation in the USA was the sponsor of this initiative having awarded a grant of $150 000 (about R1 million) to the USB for the establishment of the Learning Laboratory.