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The $300 House blog posts in Harvard Business Review:

• The $300 House Challenge by Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar
• The $300 House: The Financial Challenge by David A. Smith
• The $300 House: The Design Challenge by Bill Gross
• The $300 House: The Energy Challenge by Bob Freling
• The $300 House: The Co-Creation Challenge by Gaurav Bhalla
• The $300 House: The Marketing Challenge by Seth Godin
• The $300 House: The Performance Challenge by Doug Smith
• The $300 House: The Corporate Challenge by Stephanie A. Burns
• The Sustainability Challenge by David Sands

Selected readings from Harvard Business Review:

Articles

• How GE is Disrupting Itself
  Jeffrey Immelt, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
• A New Alliance for Global Change
  Bill Drayton and Valeria Budinich
• Why Sustainability Is Now the Key Driver of Innovation
  C.K. Prahalad and M.R. Rangaswami
• What Works: Serving the Poor, Profitably
  C.K. Prahalad and Allen Hammond
• Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World
  Stuart L. Hart
• Design Thinking
  Tim Brown
  

Blog posts

• The Shape of the Meaning Organization
  Umair Haque
• How to Challenge Your Industry Dogma
  Umair Haque
• The Betterness Manifesto
  Umair Haque
• Shape Serendipity, Understand Stress, Reignite Passion
  John Hagel III and John Seely Brown
• Six Fundamental Shifts in the Way We Work
  John Hagel III and John Seely Brown
• From Do It Yourself to Do It Together
  John Hagel III and John Seely Brown
• Why Design Thinking Won't Save You
  Peter Merholz
• Using Customer Journey Maps to Improve Customer Experience
  Adam Richardson
  

Other readings:

• The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
  C.K. Prahalad and Stuart Hart, strategy + business
• The Great Leap
  By Stuart L. Hart and Clayton M. Christensen, MIT Sloan management Review
• The Great Disruption
  By Clayton Christensen, Thomas Craig and Stuart Hart, Foreign Affairs
• Reinventing strategies for emerging markets: beyond the transnational model
  By Ted London and Stuart L. Hart, Journal of International Business Studies 2004
• Poor Peoples' Knowledge: Promoting Intellectual Property in Developing Countries
  Edited by J.Michael Finger and Philip Schuler, the World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2004
• Beyond 'Basic Needs' Business Strategies
  Erik Simanis, Stuart Hart, and Duncan Duke, MIT Innovations Journal
• The Base of the Pyramid Protocol, 2nd Edition
  Simanis, Hart, DeKoszmovsky, Donohue, Duke, Enk, Gordon, Thieme, 2008
• Creating Sustainable Value
  Stuart L. Hart and Mark B. Milstein
• Unlocking new markets
  Simona Rocchi (Philips Design)
• Emerging Markets, Emerging Models
  Ashish Karamchandani, Michael Kubzansky, and Paul Frandano (Monitor Inclusive Markets)
• Building Houses, Financing Homes
  Anamitra Deb, Ashish Karamchandani & Raina Singh (Monitor Inclusive Markets)

BOOKS

GENERAL MANAGEMENT + BOP + SUSTAINABILITY

• Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
  by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo (April 26, 2011)
• The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business
  by Umair Haque (Jan. 4, 2011)
• Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid: New Approaches for Building Mutual Value by Ted London and Stuart L. Hart (Nov 22, 2010)
• Collaboration and Co-creation: New Platforms for Marketing and Innovation
  by Gaurav Bhalla (Nov. 8, 2010)
• What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
  by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers (Sept. 14, 2010)
• The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge
  by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble (Sep 2, 2010)
• Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way
  by Steven Radelet (Sep 1, 2010)
• Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World (3rd Edition) by Stuart L. Hart (Jun 25, 2010)
• The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity by Paul Collier (Hardcover - May 11, 2010)
• Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus (May 11, 2010)
• The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
  by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison (Apr 13, 2010)
• Unilever's Shakti project: empowering Rural Indian Women, Bottom of the Pyramid in Practice by Bart Loman (Apr 12, 2010)
• The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Revised and Updated 5th Anniversary Edition: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C. K. Prahalad (Sep 3, 2009)
• Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
  by Paul Polak (Sep 1, 2009)
• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (Aug 25, 2009)
• Up and Out of Poverty: The Social Marketing Solution
  by Philip Kotler and Nancy R. Lee (Jun 24, 2009)
• Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
  by Muhammad Yunus (Jan 6, 2009)
• Sustainability Challenges and Solutions at the Base of the Pyramid: Business, Technology and the Poor by Prabhu Kandachar and Minna Halme (Sep 8, 2008)
• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (Aug 22, 2008)
• MicroFranchising: Creating Wealth at the Bottom of the Pyramid
  by Jason S. Fairbourne, Stephen W. Gibson, and W. Gibb Dyer (Jul 8, 2008)
• The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid
  by Allen L. Hammond; William J. Kramer; Robert S. Katz; Julia T. Tran; and Courtland Walker (Mar 19, 2007)
• The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
  by Jeffrey Sachs (Feb 28, 2006)
• Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution
  by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble (Dec 1, 2005)
• Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, With a New Preface by the Author (California Series in Public Anthropology, 4) by Paul Farmer and Amartya Sen (Nov 22, 2004)
• On Value and Values: Thinking Differently About We in an Age of Me
  by Douglas K. Smith (Mar 18, 2004)
• Make Success Measurable!: A Mindbook-Workbook for Setting Goals and Taking Action by Douglas K. Smith (Feb 26, 1999)

HOUSING + DESIGN

• Micro Green: Tiny Houses in Nature
  by Mimi Zeiger (Mar 22, 2011)
• The Real Cost of Poor Housing by Mike Roys (Nov 18, 2010)
• Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
  by William Powers (May 4, 2010)
• Compact Cabins: Simple Living in 1000 Square Feet or Less; 62 Plans for Camps, Cottages, Lake Houses, and Other Getaways by Gerald Rowan (Feb 5, 2010)
• Little House on a Small Planet, 2nd: Simple Homes, Cozy Retreats, and Energy Efficient Possibilities by Shay Salomon, Nigel Valdez, and Frances Moore Lappe (Dec 8, 2009)
• Tiny Houses
  by Mimi Zeiger (Mar 24, 2009)
• Housing, the State and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities (Cambridge Latin American Studies) by Alan Gilbert and Peter M. Ward (Mar 19, 2009)
• Recycled Home by Sally Bailey and Ryland Peters & Small (Feb 2009)
• The Craft & Art of Bamboo, Revised & Updated: 30 Eco-Friendly Projects to Make for Home & Garden by Carol Stangler (Jan 6, 2009)
• The House That Love Built: The Story of Linda & Millard Fuller, Founders of Habitat for Humanity and the Fuller Center for Housing by Bettie B. Youngs (Oct 10, 2007)
• 500 Ideas for Small Spaces: Easy Solutions for Living in 1000 Square Feet or Less
  by Kimberley Seldon (Aug 15, 2007)
• Mini House Now
  by Agata Losantos (Nov 21, 2006)
• Little House on a Small Planet: Simple Homes, Cozy Retreats, and Energy Efficient Possibilities
  by Shay Salomon, Nigel Valdez, and Frances Moore Lappe (Sep 1, 2006)
• The Very Small Home: Japanese Ideas for Living Well in Limited Space
  by Azby Brown and Kengo Kuma (May 1, 2005)
• Compact Houses: Architecture for the Environment
  by Cristina del Valle (Sep 20, 2005)
• Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter by Lloyd Kahn (Apr 20, 2004)
• A Possible Way Out: Formalizing Housing Informality in Egyptian Cities
  by Ahmed M. Soliman (Dec 17, 2003)
• Wright-Sized Houses: Frank Lloyd Wright's Solutions for Making Small Houses Feel Big
  by Diane Maddex (Nov 25, 2003)
• Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency
  by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and Timothy Hursley (Jan 1, 2002)
• Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt (Phoenix Books)
  by Hassan Fathy (Dec 15, 2000)
• Grow Your Own House: Simon Velez and Bamboo Architecture (English and German Edition) by Simon Velez, Alexander von Vegesack, and Mateo Kries (Jan 1, 2000)
• Shelter
  by Lloyd Kahn and Bob Easton (May 1, 2000)
• Self Help Housing, The Poor, And The State In The Caribbean
  by Robert B. Potter and Dennis Conway (Apr 1997)
• Housing, Sustainable Development and the Rural Poor: A Study of Tamil Nadu
  by Bernhard Glaeser (Feb 23, 1996)
• Housing the poor in third world cities: Choice behaviour and public policy
  by Kamalesh Misra (1992)
• Housing the Poor in the Developing World
  by Graham Tipple and Kenneth G. Tipple (Aug 22, 1991)
• Landlord and Tenant: Housing the Poor in Urban Mexico
  by Alan Gilbert and Ann Varley (Mar 22, 1991)
• Housing Africa's Urban Poor (International African Seminars, New Series, No. 4)
  by Philip Amis and Peter Lloyd (May 1990)
• Housing the Homeless and Poor: New Partnerships among the Private, Public, and Third Sectors by George Fallis and Alex Murphy (May 1, 1990)

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