Read the summary of a recent online chat with Erik Simanis and other experts on how businesses can work together with government to make progress on sustainability. Click here for the summary and link to the full discussion.
Philanthropy University sat down with Dr. Erik Simanis to learn more about his fall 2015 Philanthropy University course on start-up financial modeling.
Erik Simanis and The Intrapreneur Lab will host a 3-day ‘Base of the Pyramid Master Class’ in Medellin, Colombia on October 6-8, 2015 for Colombian companies aiming to profitably serve low-income consumer markets. The course is offered through Comfama, with support from the Inter-American Development Bank’s Opportunities for the Majority.
Join me in Mexico City on September 29-30, 2015 for the Ashoka Changemaker Leader Summit that will convene over 200 of Latin America’s leaders in inclusive business.
On 26 June 2015, the Practitioner Hub and UNDP’s Business Call to Action, in partnership with Erik Simanis, will host a webinar discussion on the role of large corporates in inclusive business. The webinar begins at 9:00 AM EST. For more information, please click here: http://www.inclusivebusinesshub.org/profiles/blogs/webinar-with-erik-simanis-what-is-the-role-of-corporates-in-inclu
Erik will speak at a plenary session on July 1 together with Olivier Kaiser of Hystra and Luis Velasco of Promotora Social Mexico as part of the Inter-American Development Banks’s BASE III Forum in Mexico City. The BASE III Forum brings together business and development leaders interested in profitable, market-based models for delivering goods and […]
Read the April 8, 2015 interview with Erik Simanis, Head of the Frontier Markets Initiative at Cornell, discussing the economic barriers to scaling many BOP ventures: “Scale and scaleability: a conversation with Erik Simanis”
Erik Simanis will keynote an Intrapreneur Masterclass on April 14 hosted by Big Society Capital in London, a mission-based financial institution set up to help grow the social investment market in the UK.
Erik’s MOOC “Financial Sustainability: The Numbers Side of Social Enterprise” was singled out by former Business Week editor John A. Byrne as among the best MOOC courses in February 2015. “Financial Sustainability: The Numbers Side of Social Enterprise” is offered through pioneering impact investing organization Acumen. The course walks through a 4-stage bottom-up modeling approach developed by Erik […]
Headed by Erik Simanis, the Frontier Markets Initiative at Cornell is partnering with the international development organization Sightsavers to innovate a business model that can sustainably deliver primary eye care solutions to India’s urban poor. Read the press release: Frontier Markets Initiative Partners to Address Eye Care in India
Erik is an action researcher and authority on innovation and go-to-market strategies for creating and shaping new mass markets in emerging and frontier economies. He brings a unique combination of theoretical rigor with “P&L practicality” to his work, as his frameworks are designed to work in the real world of trade-offs, limited time, and constrained resources.
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