Sustainability Impact and Challenges at the Base of the Pyramid, conference summary
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The purpose of this report is to provide a synthesis of the research workshop 'Sustainability and Impact Challenges at the Base of the Pyramid', that took place on 8th February 2011 in Paris. This conference effort was jointly organized by Ecole Polytechnique, ESSEC Business School and HEC Paris.
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14 Roundtable. The roundtable discussion of the corporate representatives gives insights about the BoP challenges as seen by the practitioners. Issues about having pilot projects, choosing right partners and scaling up were discussed. The conference closes with four main remarks from Stuart Hart...
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13 Q and A Session 2. The second round of Q and A is about various approaches to assessment. Stuart Hart refers to some difficulties with evaluations such as boundaries of measurement (where to stop) and how detailed to do the analysis to keep the balance between rigor and managerial relevance.
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12 Hélène Giacobino. Hélène Giacobino talks about innovation through evaluation. To illustrate how evaluations can help finding novel ideas and solutions, she shares preliminary results of an experimental design of a randomized evaluation among hairdressers in Zambia distributing female condoms...
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