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Building a $300 House for the Poor

Harvard Business Review

Watch Vijay Govindarajan , the Earl C. Govindarajan talks about what inspired him to propose a $300 House, why the time is right, and why businesses should want to be part of the solution. The Energy Challenge. The Marketing Challenge. The $300 House: The Challenge. The Financial Challenge. The Design Challenge.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Praveen Kopalle – Associate Dean MBA Program, Signal Companies’ Professor of Management and Marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. World authority on project management.

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The $300 House: The Performance Challenge

Harvard Business Review

The Energy Challenge. The Marketing Challenge. Kudos to Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar for taking a moment to reflect on Affordable Housing Institute founder David Smith's observation that markets alone will never successfully house any nation's poorest people. The $300 House: The Challenge. The Design Challenge.

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Three Innovation Trends in Asia

Harvard Business Review

As my colleagues noted in a Harvard Business Review article earlier this year, the extremes in most Asian markets are well served. Multinationals are increasingly tasking their Asian outposts with developing regionally appropriate solutions that might "trickle up" to established markets. The race for the middle.

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The $300 House: The Marketing Challenge

Harvard Business Review

The Energy Challenge. Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. Today, Seth Godin examines the challenge of marketing to the world's poor. Acumen creates these markets using patient capital.

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The $300 House: The Corporate Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Today, Stephanie A. We learned quite a bit.

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The $300 House: The Urban Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. Alternative Energy as the Standard. The biomass created will be burned as a biofuel and serve as a renewable energy and heating source for the development.

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