Shai Agassi World Without Oil Better Place Builds a Future for Electric Vehicles Innovations Case Narrative: Better Place So, how exactly would you run an entire country without oil? Early in 2005, at the World…
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Melinda Kimble
Melinda Kimble It’s Not About Ethanol, It’s About Sugarcane Innovations Case Discussion: The Brazilian Experience with Biofuels Brazil’s decision to integrate sugar production with its energy system makes an interesting case study in optimization and…
Abul Hussam
Abul Hussam Contending with a Development Disaster SONO Filters Remove Arsenic from Well Water in Bangladesh Innovations Case Discussion: SONO Filters Science means more than fiddling with some instruments, getting results, and fin- ishing with…
Joe Madiath
Joe Madiath It Takes a Faucet Realizing Village Development Through Water and Sanitation Initiatives Innovations Case Narrative: Gram Vikas An often-quoted proverb states that “it takes a village to raise a child.” At Gram Vikas,…
Bindeshwar Pathak
Bindeshwar Pathak Technologies for Human Dignity The Sulabh Sanitation and Social Reform Movement Innovations Case Narrative: Sulabh International I was born in Vaishali district of Bihar, India, en 1943, into a Maithil Brahmin fam- ily….
Allerd Stikker and Dorota Juchniewicz
Allerd Stikker and Dorota Juchniewicz “Water, Water Everywhere…” Innovations to Improve Global Availability of Clean Water and Sanitation The global water situation, which has received increasing public attention during the last decade, is one of…
Allen Hammond, James Koch, and Francisco Noguera
Allen Hammond, James Koch, and Francisco Noguera The Need for Safe Water as a Market Opportunity There is a huge unmet need across the globe for access to safe drinking water. This problem kills millions…
Steven Horwitz
Steven Horwitz Best Responders Post-Katrina Innovation and Improvisation by Wal-Mart and the U.S. Coast Guard The unprecedented impacts of Hurricane Katrina provide an interesting study in how organizations innovate and improvise in the face of…
Ignacio Mas
Ignacio Mas The Economics of Branchless Banking If you are a smallholder with all your income concentrated in a particular season; if you are a day laborer who is not sure what employment opportunities there…
Norka Ruiz Bravo
Norka Ruiz Bravo A Conservation Ethic in Practice Preserving Cultural and Biodiversity by Bridging the Generational Knowledge Base Innovations Case Discussion: Amazon Conservation Team A conservation ethic is that which aims to pass on to…