http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/ Where Globalization, innovation, and leadership meet. 2008-07-25T09:29:34-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/07/travel-blogue_d_4.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_bangaloretigers Today was my first day in Hyderabad, India, and it was a full one. I was up at 4 a.m. for a ride about 150 kilometers out in the countryside to visit villages targeted by SKS Microfinance, the fastest-growing micro-credit... Social Entrepreneurship steve_hamm 2008-07-25T09:29:34-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/07/travel-blogue_d_3.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_bangaloretigers Well, Muhammad Yunus has his Peace Prize, and now a Hollywood movie may be coming close behind. It turned out that a couple of the guests at the Pacific Inn Hotel in Dhaka, where I stayed while reporting about the... Social Entrepreneurship steve_hamm 2008-07-24T12:34:48-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/07/travel-blogue_d_2.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_bangaloretigers The way Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus sees it, the micro-credit revolution is running its course in his home country of Bangladesh. Between his Grameen Bank and other NGOs, which together make Bangladesh the most heavily micro-credit-enabled place on... Social Entrepreneurship steve_hamm 2008-07-23T13:09:25-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/07/travel_blogue_d_2.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_bangaloretigers Today I visited a handful of villages about 45 kilometers east of Dhaka. The countryside is beautiful, with palms, teak trees, rice paddies, and tidy little roads where school children dressed in blue uniforms were walking and old folks tethered... Social Entrepreneurship steve_hamm 2008-07-22T07:46:21-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/07/travel-blogue_d_1.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_bangaloretigers Nurjahan Begum was one of the founders of Grameen Bank, and she embodies its spirit. At its essence, Grameen is about empowering women. That wasn't Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus's plan when he launched the pioneering micro-credit organization more... Social Entrepreneurship steve_hamm 2008-07-21T09:20:21-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/07/travel_blogue_d_1.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_bangaloretigers In Dhaka, it's monsoon time and a drowned world. Sky, river, and street are one. I did the half-day city tour with an excellent guide and deft driver. In the rain, saw forts, temples, mosques, churches, and the old bangle... Social Entrepreneurship steve_hamm 2008-07-20T11:00:36-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/07/travel_blogue_d.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_bangaloretigers Dubai, one of the world’s new boomtowns, is considered the Las Vegas of the Middle East. It’s a hot, sandy, and sun blasted swath of steel, glass, and concrete on the edge of the Gulf. Supposedly there’s considerable freedom here... Social Entrepreneurship steve_hamm 2008-07-19T12:24:58-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/07/travel-blogue_d.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_bangaloretigers In the Web 2.0 era, no self respecting journalist can go into the fray with a tools as rudimentary as a pen and tablet. We are now multi-modal content producers. Plus, we have to be in touch and publish 24/7.... Social Entrepreneurship steve_hamm 2008-07-18T16:05:57-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/07/travel-blogue.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_bangaloretigers I'm leaving tomorrow on a 24-day reporting trip to Bangladesh, India, Tanzania, and Egypt. The goal is to report on some of the most innovative projects aimed at using business methods to solve social problems. Over the past few months,... Social Entrepreneurship steve_hamm 2008-07-17T10:31:30-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/07/a_new_sort_of_t.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_bangaloretigers For decades, universities have looked for ways to get some of the technology their researchers create out into the marketplace--often collecting royalties or other fees in the process. But Colorado State University has a new twist on the old trend.... Social Entrepreneurship steve_hamm 2008-07-17T09:42:54-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/07/the_decline_of.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_bangaloretigers The news that UK's Aviva sold its captive (meaning company owned and operated) BPO centers in South Asia to WNS got me keyed up so I wrote a BW story about it. Indian tech company executives have been telling me... Off-shoring steve_hamm 2008-07-16T14:10:32-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/07/lots_of_black_b.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_bangaloretigers Since BW published my story raising questions about Brown & Wilson and their Black Book of Outsourcing rankings, I have received dozens of e-mails from people in the outsourcing industry thanking me for publishing the story. I'm going to do... outsourcing steve_hamm 2008-07-08T09:28:21-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/07/the_latest_book.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_bangaloretigers Subroto Bagchi and I are on the same rhythm, authoring-wise. His first book, The High Performance Entrepreneur, was published in late 2006, as was my first one, Bangalore Tiger. Now his new book, Go Kiss the World, has been published... Global management steve_hamm 2008-07-07T16:23:04-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/07/strange_things.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_bangaloretigers BW Online just published a story I wrote for the magazine about Brown & Wilson Group, the outfit that publishes annual rankings of outsourcers and a book, The Black Book of Outsourcing. This firm, which is basically two guys, Doug... outsourcing steve_hamm 2008-07-06T14:48:16-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/07/final_update_on.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_bangaloretigers I just got the alert from Mozilla that it's now official: they truly made a big splash during the first 24 hours after they released Firefox 3 on June 17. They established a Guinness World Record for software downloads. The... open software steve_hamm 2008-07-02T17:05:31-05:00