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Accelerating Customer Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

These strategies may sound familiar, but implementing them effectively at the BoP requires distinct tactics. It starts with a trickle : To illustrate this challenge from my own experience, let's look at the example of drip irrigation , a technology that has been around for more than 50 years.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

We may not be keeping pace with these pressures, but leading companies continue to evolve more sustainable strategies and tactics. Keeping the apparel theme, um, running, check out Nike's new shoe with FlyKnit technology. Let's look at some top macro- and company-level stories. Macro Trends. In the U.S.,