Simplicity Brings Hope to the Digital Age
Seoul Digital Forum, May 22, 2012 Business leaders today spend all their time trying to serve the richest 10% of the world’s customers. We need a revolution in business thinking to create products and...
View ArticleFour Transformative Business Opportunities in Emerging Markets
University of California, Berkeley- Haas School of Business March 13, 2012 I’m going to describe a little bit about the four businesses and then we’ll have a little bit of time for question and...
View ArticleTransforming Solar Pumping to Eliminate Rural Poverty
What if we could harness the limitless power of the sun to carry water to the crops of millions of small poor farmers around the world? If I want to water my petunias, I turn on the tap outside my...
View ArticlePaul Polak’s Top 10 Books
Following is a list of the ten books that have been most helpful in increasing my understanding of the world. 1) Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, by E. F. Schumacher (Blond...
View ArticleHow to solve India’s poverty crisis
By Paul Polak and Mal Warwick Economic debate swirls around the question of how to end poverty, and no wonder: today there are still 2.7 billion people living on $2 a day or less. How should a nation...
View ArticleThe Last 500 Feet
Developing practical and profitable new ways to cross the last 500 feet to the remote rural places where poor families now live and work is the first step towards creating vibrant new markets that...
View ArticleClean Water for India
Spring Health, our rapidly scalable safe drinking water company designed to go global, has now started its commercial rollout in India by recruiting and training 90 new full-time staff, and expanding...
View ArticleIs it Wrong for Business to Profit from the Poor?
Mohammad Yunus is a nice man. He’s also very smart, innovative, a risk-taker — and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace. However, he is sometimes wrong. And he’s most certainly wrong when he insists,...
View ArticleSharks, Pigs, & Coconuts: Economic Development and Mental Health by Paul R....
This research article was written by Dr. Paul Polak in the 1970’s while he was the Executive Director, Southwest Denver Community Mental Health Services, Inc., 1611 South Federal Blvd., Denver, CO....
View ArticleBlack Swans and the Future of Energy by Paul Polak and Krish Desai
Energy experts now confidently predict that by 2040, solar and wind will drive no less than 60% of global power; natural gas will replace the lion’s share of the burning of coal, and the market for...
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