The challenges of creating functional and reliable distribution networks to (and from) India’s rural base-of-pyramid are well documented. Although some methods have shown varying degrees of success, the costs of creating new networks for consumer products go well beyond the…
ITC, famous among the rural folks in India for its e-choupal initiative has paired up with Monster India, a known job portal to launch rozgarduniya.com to help the rural youth to find job opportunities. The portal is available in both Hindi and…
You may like or you may hate it. But if you are a resident of India, you can’t ignore the inevitable auto rickshaws. If you ever wonder how it would be to ride auto rickshaws, better still race on it,…
This op-ed was submitted by Suresh Pramar, and is a user post. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of TC-I, but we feel that it is important to cultivate opinions from all sides.
India like the rest of the…
Editor’s Note: Guest blogger Lindsay Clinton is an Associate Vice President at Intellecap, where she is the Managing Editor of Beyond Profit and Microfinance Insights. Prior to joining Intellecap, she worked as the Marketing and Communications Director at The White…
The Global Social Venture Competition, a MBA social venture competition that partners several different universities around the world, wrapped up this past weekend at UC Berkeley Haas Business School. The GSVC is one of the most competitive gatherings in the…
Doodh Bhandar (DB), a plan focused on revolutionizing milk production in rural India, has reached the finals of the Harvard Business School (HBS) Business Plan Contest in the Social Enterprise track. Cattle are one of the most important assets for rural…
The organization Chirag is offering a one-year fellowship to work in a rural area of India. Called Swades Ki Khoj, it begins on July 1st and applications are due on until May 15th. The program’s flyer is after the jump.…
India is represented strong in the list of participants from the 2009 Global Social Benefit Incubator, which is a program led by SocialEdge and Santa Clara University that “assists social benefit entrepreneurs in developing business plans that enable their organizations…
