There are different authors and organizations who are specialized in business models and corporate strategy
consultancy with the aim to eradicate poverty through profit. This simple sentence makes clear that strategic
decisions should involve at least one other perspectives: humanitarian. The business authors and organizations
do pay attention to the humanitarian perspective, but this can not be compared with the manner of the
humanitarian organizations.
Authors
C.K. Prahalad
Coimbatore Krishnan Prahalad, University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan, is a globally recognized business consultant. His research focuses chiefly corporate strategy and the role of top management in diversified multinational corporations. His current work addresses a complex emerging market, the world's poor and the innovative business models that will help end world poverty.Competing in the bottom-of-the-pyramid markets is increasingly an imperative for managers
seeking organic growth, innovation, and, most important, organizational transformation. The developing
world offers large firms an opportunity to find new sources of value - and to do good besides. Ignoring
these markets in the long term could be a fatal mistake; participating will help lay the groundwork for
what I like to call inclusive capitalism.
C.K. Prahalad
S.L. Hart
Stuart Hart is recognized for his knowledge on the implications of sustainable development for business strategy. He is currently S.C. Johnson Chair of Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. The book Capitalism at the Crossroads provides a brief explanation of the train of thoughts of Stuart Hart.Stuart Hart has a combined business perspective and local enterprises perspective; the BoP Protocol™ is a model for business co-creation that marries MNCs’ resources, technologies and best practices with those of the community.
On the 25th of April 2006, Stewart Hart provided feedback on projects of BiD Challenge in the BiD seminar, in collaboration with the strategy consulting organization Triple Value.
N. Boyer
Nicole Ann Boyer was a partner in the Global Business Network. For this organization, she published an article in which she outlines a BoP-typology in 2003. In this typology she mentions and describes the different types of business initiatives for the Base of the Pyramid, such as corporate pure play experiments, catalysts and enablers and social entrepreneurs. At this moment Nicole Ann Boyer is a facilitator for foresights for Adaptive Edge. Adaptive Edge is a bridge linking top-down actors and smaller bottom-up agents of change, with opposing views and values.... And yes, the BOP framework does scare me sometimes. There are some dark sides to
this work as I’ve found working with large MNCs. The few that DO see opportunities see them within their
existing business model and paradigm. That is, exploitation of new markets, a way to find customers of
the future. In my view, the BOP is only positive provided the innovators start with a BOP perspective
lens, and with assumptions based on new consumption models and sustainability, which was where Stuart
Hart, the head of the BOP Learning Lab was taking this.
N. Boyer
