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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Harvard Business Review

How do you get energy and infrastructure into such dwellings? Bhalla used the case study of the chulha stove, co-created by businesses, NGOs, and slum dwellers, to make his point. From the start we asked: What are the complexities of financing these homes? How do you get corporations to invest in a significant way?

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The Changing Role of Global Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Undeniably there is more pressure on the things we all depend on: finite resources like water, energy, food, certain metals and minerals, and ecosystems like fisheries and forests. Witness Chris Lazslo's work on sustainable value , and Michael Porter's theorizing about shared value. And of course, more pressure on climate.

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Why President Kagame Runs Rwanda Like a Business

Harvard Business Review

So when Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter invited HBR last month to attend a class where Kagame was the guest speaker, and talk to him and Kagame afterwards, I was curious but also a little worried about being enlisted as a Kagame salesman. To Porter] How did you hook up with this guy? How did this partnership evolve?

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