BoP Learning Labs Mentions in the News

A compilation of recent mentions of BoP Learning Lab in media.

Could the pitch-black villages and shantytowns of the developing world present an opportunity to alleviate poverty, improve education, goose green technology, save some energy, and create jobs -- all in one package?

Finding Profit in Servicing the Poor

Times of India - October 19, 2007

If someone were to do a poll of the Top 10 breakthrough ideas in management in the decade gone by, the concept of the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) would without doubt be somewhere at the top of the list. The idea—that there is a huge untapped opportunity for companies in creating value for and serving the 4 billion people comprising the world's poor—has captured the imagination of companies across the world. Overnight, multinationals like Unilever and SC Johnson launched initiatives in this direction.

Capitalists Should Mine Bottom of Pyramid

Shanghai Daily - August 8, 2007

By analyzing the bleak future of traditional economies and illustrating the huge benefits that sustainable development might bring as well as the unlimited business opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid, Hart could not be more persuasive in his conviction that capitalism must take a new course.

On Campus, a Different Pyramid Scheme

BusinessWeek - August 1, 2007

Classes that explore the controversial "base of the pyramid" economic development theory are proliferating at B-schools around the world.

Cornell Professor Builds on His Base

BusinessWeek - August 1, 2007

Stuart Hart, founder of "base of the pyramid" economics, talks about terrorism, poverty, and the next big corporations

Designing Change

BusinessWeek Online - March 19, 2007

Read about how venture philanthropy fund Acumen uses design thinking to help solve real-world problems.

A BoP Learning Lab is launched at Stellenbosch Graduate School of Business (USB) in South Africa.

DePaul leading Charge for Corporate Ethics Evolution

Chicago Sun-Times - February 20, 2007

Professor Stuart Hart will be the first speaker in a three-year lecture series that promotes the creation of business initiatives that reduce poverty and health care inequities in Chicago as well as developing nations.

Creating Value in New Places

S.C. Johnson Public - February 14, 2007

SC Johnson talks about being a member of the BoP Learning Lab and the BoP Protocol.

Windex in the Third World

Racine Journal Times - January 14, 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.