Capitalism at the Crossroads: Aligning Business, Earth, and Humanity

By Stuart L. Hart

Featuring a new foreword by Al Gore

In Capitalism at the Crossroads, Hart shows companies how to identify sustainable products that can drive new growth as they also help solve today's most crucial social problems. Drawing on his experience consulting with top companies and NGOs worldwide, Hart shows how to integrate new technology to deliver profitable solutions that reduce poverty and protect the environment at the same time. Along the way, you'll learn how to become truly indigenous to all your markets—and avoid the pitfalls of traditional "greening" and "sustainability" strategies.

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The Base of the Pyramid Protocol: 2nd Edition

By Erik Simanis and Stuart Hart

With Justin DeKoszmovszky, Patrick Donohue, Duncan Duke, Gordon Enk, Michael Gordon, and Tatiana Thieme

The Base of the Pyramid (BoP) Protocol™ is a pioneering, business incubation process that enables multinational corporations to generate new business opportunities and markets at the Base of the Pyramid. Weaving together real-world experiences co-creating new businesses with communities in Kenya and Inda, the 2nd Edition of the BoP Protocol guides companies in how to build equitable, mutually beneficial partnerships with BoP communities, enabling new businesses, capabilities, and markets that neither set of partners could create on their own.

The Base of the Pyramid Protocol initiative is directed out Cornell University by Stuart Hart and Erik Simanis. Authors that have contributed to the 1st or 2nd edition of the BoP Protocol include Justin DeKoszmovszky (SC Johnson), Patrick Donohue (ESW), Duncan Duke (Cornell), Gordon Enk (ESW), Michael Gordon (University of Michigan), Tatiana Thieme (University of Cambridge), and Allyson Lippert.

⇒ Download the 2nd Edition of the BoP Protocol from bop-protocol.org

Additional articles:

• The Base of the Pyramid Protocol: Beyond "Basic Needs" Business Strategies
  By Erik Simanis, Stuart Hart, and Duncan Duke, Innovations, Winter 2008
• The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid (PDF)
  C.K. Prahalad and Stuart Hart, strategy + business, First Quarter 2002.
• The Great Leap (PDF)
  By Stuart L. Hart and Clayton M. Christensen, MIT Sloan management Review Issue Fall 2002
• The Great Disruption (PDF)
  By Clayton Christensen, Thomas Craig and Stuart Hart, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2001
• Kibera Nights (PDF)
  By Patrick C. Donohue, BRINQ.com 2005
• Reinventing strategies for emerging markets: beyond the transnational model (PDF)
  By Ted London and Stuart L. Hart, Journal of International Business Studies 2004 35
• Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World (PDF)
  By Stuart L Hart, Harvard Business Review, January 1, 1997
  Winner of the McKinsey Award for Best Article in Harvard Business Review, 1997
• Engaging Fringe Stakeholders for Competitive Imagination (PDF)
  Stuart L. Hart and Sanjay Sharma, Academy of Management Executive 18(1): 7-18, 2004
• Creating Sustainable Value (PDF)
  Stuart L. Hart and Mark B. Milstein, Academy of Management Executive 17(2): 56-69, 2003