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 services to the bottom of the pyramid in Latin America and the Caribbean. To register, click here.
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, together with Paul Polak of Windhorse International and Nitin Sharma of BASF South Asia, will participate in a webinar on Dec 3, 2014 from 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM EST hosted by UNDP’s Business Call to Action and Business Fights Poverty. The webinar will explore the innovation and business model challenges of profitably serving BOP consumers.
Register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-do-you-create-a-transformative-business-model-tickets-14612322851
Join me on December 3 at 12:00 PM EST in a Google+ Hangout with NextBillion.net’s editor, Scott Anderson. The embedded live broadcast can be accessed here: http://nextbillion.net/acp/blogpost-edit.aspx?BlogID=4164
The pioneering impact investing organization Acumen has teamed up with Dr. Erik Simanis to offer an introductory course on financial modeling for start-up social enterprises.
Erik will show you how to think about and build a basic financial model from the ground up, starting from a single “business unit”—a stand-alone profit-center (like a branch, sales office, or individual franchise) that is replicated when you scale. The course will then explain how to connect the business-unit financials with the “home-office” and its associated costs—these are the supporting operations and administrative structures that have to be put in place in order to scale a business. This approach helps ensure that your product or service can be realistically commercialized, and that the business model is built for scalability from the start. Register at: http://plusacumen.org/courses/unit-economics.
Catalyzing corporate social intrapreneurship from the inside out. Please join Accenture Development Partnerships, Business Fights Poverty, Leadership Laboratories, and Dr. Erik Simanis at upcoming sessions of The Intrapreneur Lab for the tools to launch and commercialize corporate ventures to profitably serve bottom of the pyramid markets.
October 13-15: Said Business School, University of Oxford. Oxford, UK.
November 17-19. Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria. Johannesburg, South Africa.
http://intrapreneur.businessfightspoverty.org/take-action/the-intrapreneur-lab/
Erik Simanis will give a keynote address at a conference hosted by global cement manufacturer Lafarge. The conference, which focuses on Lafarge’s Affordable Housing efforts, will take place in Lafarge’s offices in Paris on October 9.
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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