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12/21/2004     by William Baue

(SocialFunds.com)
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Cornell and University of North Carolina Business Professor Stuart Hart’s Capitalism at the Crossroads perfectly complements University of
Michigan Business Professor C. K. Prahalad’s The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, perhaps even surpassing
it in significance. The two professors collaborated from 1998 through 2002 on the seminal article
that gave birth to the “bottom of the pyramid” (BOP) concept that Prof. Prahalad explains so
eloquently in his book (see related book review). The BOP market
theory holds that multinational corporations (MNCs) can simultaneously profit and help
reduce global poverty by serving a market they have largely ignored until recently: the 4 billion
people in the world living on less than $2 a day.

This theory is all the buzz nowadays.

Martin Luther King Day is the least
popular federal holiday—only 29 percent of employers give their workers the day
off. … Black comedian Chris Rock says, “You gotta be pretty racist to
not want a day off from work.”

We have the strange feeling down in Montgomery that in our struggle we have cosmic companionship.

… David Chappell reversed the usual approach to the civil rights
movement. Instead of dismissing its religious rhetoric as only that,
and concentrating on its politics, he actually listened to what Martin
Luther King Jr. — the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was saying.

Thank you, Marc Fisher!

Now for a gadget to shut off the blaring, anti-social stereos in adjacent vehicles!