The quest for the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid: potential and challenges Dennis A. Pitta The University of Baltimore‚ Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ USA‚ and Rodrigo Guesalaga and Pablo Marshall ´ Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile‚ Santiago‚ Chile Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) proposition‚ where private companies can both be profitable and help alleviate poverty by attending low-income consumers. Design/methodology/approach
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village of Frampol play on Reb Gimpel‚ an ordinary village baker in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s "Gimpel the Fool"‚ most of them being ridiculous or mean‚ it would be generally assumed that anybody who would take all that they were told seriously would be considered a simpleton‚ or to the point‚ a fool. Gimpel‚ the narrator‚ who by telling us how he really feels‚ comes across to us as being anything but a fool. In fact‚ he is a very intelligent person who more than often knows when he is being tricked‚ yet
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observer‚ William Greider‚ describes it‚ China is “sucking away” jobs. “Globalisation”‚ he writes‚ “is entering a fateful new stage‚ in which the competitive perils intensify for the low-wage developing countries. … In the ‘race to the bottom’‚ China is defining the bottom” 3. 4 Labour standards‚ a term that was once used almost exclusively within labour and government circles (...) 3In other words‚ though employment in the low-wage industries in China may be expanding‚ the wages of the workers
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Nick Carraway‚ the narrator and important character in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is deeply characterized through what he says‚ thinks‚ and is seen as by others. Many different perspectives of Nick are evident throughout the novel. He is judged and characterized by himself‚ his friends‚ and other strangers that he meets in the novel. Fitzgerald uses more dialogue to characterize Nick than other mediums. In the beginning of the book‚ on the first page‚ Nick himself
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is about the inspiring fashion photographer Nick Knight and how contemporary and influential his work is‚ talking about his past work and his transition into moving image and fashion film. “I first picked up a camera in about 1957 it was a family camera and the real reason I did it was because I wanted to photograph girls. I liked girls – it sounds really dumb but then so did Jacques Henri Lartigue.” – Nick Knight [www.theindependent.co.uk] Nick Knight believes the word fashionable should not
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Towards the final scene of the book‚ I notice something that is both relevant in my current life experiences as well as today’s society. Nick Carraway moves back home to the slower paced state of Minnesota‚ because he’s honestly not made to be a New Yorker. Nothing’s wrong with that‚ New York isn’t for everybody. However‚ this part of the book is incredibly valid‚ almost 100 years later. This past summer when I was looking at colleges‚ I made the realization that not every place is made for me. When
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BIOGRAPHY of Nick Joaquín Resil B. Mojares He was the greatest Filipino writer of his generation. Over six decades and a half‚ he produced a body of work unmatched in richness and range by any of his contemporaries. Living a life wholly devoted to the craft of conjuring a world through words‚ he was the writer’s writer. In the passion with which he embraced his country’s manifold being‚ he was his people’s writer as well. Nick Joaquín was born in the old district of Pacò in Manila‚ Philippines
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Bibliography: ABOUT THE AUTHOR *A native Manileñ*o‚Nick Joaquin was born in the district of Paco‚on Calle Herran‚in 1917.His parents were Don Leocadio Joaquin‚a colonel of the Philippine Revolution and a prominent lawyer during the 1920s;and Do*ñ*a Salome Marques‚one of the first teachers to be appointed
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window - streaming fluid and black in the white night where the huge moon glowed like a sun and the dry air flamed into lightning and the pure heat burned with the immense intense fever of noon." (from ’The Summer Solstice’ in Tropical Gothic‚ 1972) Nick Joaquin was born in Paco on Calle Herran‚ as the the son of Leocadio Y. Joaquin‚ a lawyer and a colonel of the Philippine Revolution‚ and Salome Marquez‚ a schoolteacher. After three years of secondary education at the Mapa High School‚ Joaquin dropped
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“Drinking makes such fools of people‚ and people are such fools to begin with‚ that it is compounding a felony” (Robert Benchley). The average person does not always make smart decisions‚ and alcohol tends to worsen that issue. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ many characters cope with their problems by drinking their lives away. But‚ what they do not realize‚ is that drinking makes their problems worse and makes their behavior portray them as unintelligent. Through the poor
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