BoP Learning Labs Mentions in the News

BoP Learning Labs Mentions in the News

Designing Change

BusinessWeek Online - March 19, 2007

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

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.

Chasing the 'Base of the Pyramid'

Fortune - November 15, 2006

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.

Testing the Protocol in the Field

S.C. Johnson Public - December 15, 2006

Justin DeKoszmovsky (MBA '06), writes about S.C. Johnson's experience on the ground working with local businesses and community groups to create new business opportunities in Kibera, Kenya through the BoP Protocol process.

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.

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

On Campus, a Different Pyramid Scheme

BusinessWeek - August 1, 2007

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

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.