"I value the thought leadership and openness of the Center."
Justin DeKoszmovszky, MBA '06
Manager, Strategic Sustainability
SC Johnson
Base of the Pyramid Learning Lab
The Base of the Pyramid (BoP) Learning Laboratory, founded by Stuart Hart, is a membership-based consortium of companies, NGOs, multilateral organizations, and universities. Members work together to discover and implement win-win solutions that open new opportunities for business value creation while simultaneously expanding the development horizon of the world's poorest people and communities in ways that are culturally appropriate and environmentally sustainable.
The BoP Learning Lab program has led to the growth of the BoP Learning Lab Global Network. The Global Network catalyzes vital international partnerships that help generate local experiments and scale creative business solutions which serve the needs of poor communities worldwide.
Programs
The BoP Learning Lab:
- Convenes forums to facilitate networking, learning, and knowledge generation
- Conducts cutting-edge applied research
- Develops case studies on notable BoP business ventures
- Collaborates on BoP pilot projects and new business ventures
Membership
Benefits include:
- Interaction with thought leaders in BoP business creation, innovation and new market development
- Access to low-risk, innovative processes for idea generation, information gathering and experimentation in the BoP
- Engagement in collaborative projects with members sharing similar interests, supported by BoP Learning Lab staff
- Preferred access to the Center for partnering to conduct BoP projects
- A vehicle for elevating awareness and development of an internal network of BoP champions for projects and programs in their organization
- Participation in the BoP Learning Lab Global Network
Members
- Battelle
- The Dow Chemical Company
- DuPont
- IBM
- Lockheed Martin Corporation
- McGovern Capital, LLC
- S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
Academic Partners
- Fundacao Getulio Vargas (Brazil)
- IESC (Argentina)
- IESE Business School (Spain)
- Indian School of Business (India)
- Ross School of Business, University of Michigan (US)
- Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
- Tec Monterrey EGADE (Mexico)
Project Partners
- Ashoka
- Enterprise for a Sustainable World
- Freeplay Foundation
- Inter-American Development Bank
- International Finance Corporation
- The William Davidson Institute
- United Nations Development Program
- U.S. Agency for International Development
- World Bank
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development
- Yachana Foundation
Contact
Monica Touesnard
Managing Director of Learning Labs
mat59@cornell.edu
+1-607-255-6171