Category: $300 house

The $300 House – the value-chain challenge

26 January, 2011 (14:56) | $300 house, AHI work, Global news, Housing, Innovations, Slums |

By: David A. Smith   In the five months since Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar put up their original Harvard Business Review blog post, the concept has been picking up steam.  My post on the financial challenge led to five more posts (see box below), with a few more envisioned.         In [...]

The $300 house

12 October, 2010 (15:04) | $300 house, Construction, Finance, Infrastructure, Innovations, Slums, Theory |

By: David A. Smith    [Editor's note: this post is an illustrated reprint of The $300 house: the Financial Challenge, posted October 1, 2010 on the Harvard Business Review blog.  Readers are encouraged to go there are leave comments – David Smith.]   “If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower [...]