C.K. Prahalad, author of “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid”, spoke to the 2009 class of Acumen Fellows providing perspective and insight into working among the poorest in the world.

Key points:

• Don’t do it for guilt or morality, do it for intellectual stimulation
• Leadership is about the future, change, and opportunity
• Thinking out of the box vs. Creating A New Box!
• It takes good business acumen, technology, and imagination to create unique powerful solutions
• Look at poverty and imagine a very different world

What do you draw most from what Prahalad has to say?