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Discuss, debate, and challenge one another to learn about the problem of housing at the base of the pyramid.

Host a Design Challenge to identify designers and architects interested in designing housing for the poor.

Build relationships. Conduct surveys and face-to-face discussions with communities interested in affordable housing.

Prototyping workshops to build open-source solutions.

Partner with a community and local NGOs, businesses & government to build a pilot village.

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Harvard Business Review

 

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jovoto.com

Sponsor
Ingersoll Rand

Partners
THL

Dartmouth

ETHIOPIA
International Fund for Africa

HAITI
Dartmouth

INDIA
Enterprise for a Sustainable World

ETHIOPIA
International Fund for Africa

HAITI
Dartmouth

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Enterprise for a Sustainable World

NEWS >>

April 4. 2012
Dr. Anteneh Roba, International Fund for Africa is now an advisor to the $300 House

March 4. 2012
Zhooben Bhiwandiwala, Mahindra Partners, is now an advisor to the $300 House

February 14. 2012
Want to Build a Cheap House? How About One For $300? SPAN

February 12. 2012
The house that students built Financial Times

February 6. 2012
La Casa da 300 dollari Galileo

January 25. 2012
Dartmouth: $300 House Keynote, VG and Jim Yong Kim kickoff the $300 House [4 Haiti] workshop

October 9. 2011
Report: The $300 House: A Community Survey of Rural India (THL)

October 5. 2011
VG + $300 House shortlisted by Thinkers50

October 1. 2011
Vision Statement: The $300 House Harvard Business Review

September 15. 2011
A $300 House: Fact or fiction? HousingRevolution

September 15. 2011
VK Shashikumar
joins the $300 House as an advisor.

September 12. 2011
Stephan Butler joins the $300 House as an advisor.

September 10. 2011
Nitin Sharma, Shourin Roy and Kyle Elllicott join the $300 House as advisors.

September 3. 2011
Dartmouth Team to Visit Haiti

August 18. 2011
La vuoi una casa per 200 euro? L'espresso

August 18. 2011
Likeonomics: How To Make Your Brand More Believable Fast Company

August 1. 2011
Eric Ho (Architecture Commons) joins the $300 House as an advisor.

July 26. 2011
Hybrid House: Extraordinary Green Home Can be Built for Under $300 Inhabitat

July 18. 2011
The $300 House: Businesses Take Up the Challenge (Harvard Business Review)

July 4. 2011
Salem Avan
joins the $300 House as an advisor.

June 30. 2011
Kate Bulkley joins the $300 House as an advisor.

June 28. 2011
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Eric Ho (a winner of the $300 House challenge) discusses the idea on CNN

June 27. 2011
Praise and Criticism of the $300 House Master of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture

June 26. 2011
$300 home is not just viable but also profitable Hindustan Times

June 26. 2011
Harvey Lacey
joins the $300 House as an advisor.

June 25. 2011
Owen Geiger (
GRISB.org) joins the $300 House as advisor.

June 24. 2011
The £197 'nano house' designed to solve India's slum housing Telegraph

June 24. 2011
M & M win award for $300 Home Times of India

June 23. 2011
Activate 2011: Technology powered by people Guardian

June 23. 2011
Nano home at $300? Mahindras tap Harvard dons Hindustan Times

June 22. 2011
Christian speaks at Activate 2011 about the $300 house (video).

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June 21. 2011
Six Designs For Houses That Cost Just $300 To Build Fast Company

June 19. 2011
Contest seeks ideas for $300 houses to shelter world's poor Gizmag

June 18. 2011
A home in Mumbai for $300? Why not, says NRI DNA

June 16. 2011
Inspiration - The $300 House

Open IDEO

June 15. 2011

The Winners of the $300 House Open Design Challenge Congratulations!

June 7. 2011
The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem (Harvard Business Review) our rebuttal to the NY Times Op-Ed.

June 3. 2011
$300 slum house? Worthy but worthless (The Berkely Blog).

May 31. 2011
Hands Off Our Houses (New York Times) Op-Ed challenges the $300 House.

May 23. 2011
Stacey Lawson (CET, UC Berkeley) joins the $300 House as an advisor.

May 23. 2011
Erich Habian (Wienerberger) joins the $300 House as an advisor.

May 20. 2011
Roland Merten (BASF) joins the $300 House as an advisor.

May 16. 2011
Helen Walters (Doblin) joins the $300 House as an advisor and judge.

May 15. 2011
Larry Keeley (Doblin) joins the $300 House as an advisor.

May 15. 2011
Madhav Chavan (Pratham) joins the $300 House as an advisor.

May 12. 2011
Ophelia Dahl (Partners In Health) joins the $300 House as an advisor and judge.

May 12. 2011
Patrice Nevil (Zanmi Lasante) joins the $300 House as an advisor and judge.

May 12. 2011
Paul Miller a.k.a. D.J. Spooky joins the $300 House as an advisor.

May 10. 2011
Google SketchUp on the $300 House >>

May 5. 2011
How to house the world's poor: The $300 house of ideas Globe and Mail >>

May 3. 2011
What a $300 House Teaches Us About Big Business
Technorati >>

May 3. 2011
INTERVIEW with Christian Sarkar Guardian >>

May 2. 2011
Can a $300 House Save 2 Billion People Living in Poverty? [PICS] Mashable >>

May 1. 2011
The BBC interviews VG:

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April 28. 2011
The $300 House in The Economist
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April 20. 2011
$300 House Open Design Challenge launched!

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April 14. 2011
Valeria Budinich joins the $300 House as an advisor.

April 10. 2011
Rahul Mehrotra joins the $300 House as a judge and advisor.

April 9. 2011
Jack Wilson joins the $300 House as an advisor.

April 8. 2011
Bastian Unterberg joins the $300 House as an advisor.

April 7. 2011
Paul Newman joins the $300 House as an advisor.

April 6. 2011
Yves Behar joins the $300 House as a judge for the design challenge.

April 5. 2011
Daniel Johnson joins the $300 House as a judge and advisor.

March 26. 2011
Michael Gordon joins the $300 House as an advisor.

March 25. 2011
W. Scott Tew joins the $300 House as an advisor.

March 25. 2011
Javed Matin joins the $300 House as an advisor.

March 22. 2011
John Bielenberg joins the $300 House as an advisor.

March 20. 2011
Byron Katie joins the $300 House as an advisor.

March 18. 2011
indonesian flag Chairul Tanjung, the Chairman of the National Economic Committee of Indonesia, joins the $300 House as an advisor.

March 17. 2011
HBR editor Scott Berinato's slideshow on the $300 House >>

March 15. 2011
Toby Cumberbatch joins the $300 House as an advisor.

March 11. 2011
Paul Polak joins the $300 House as an advisor.

March 8. 2011
VG discusses the $300 House on HBR video >>

March 3. 2011
Benjamin Linder joins us as an advisor to the $300 House.

March 3. 2011
Dave Cranmer joins us as an advisor to the $300 House.

February 26. 2011
Shaun Abrahamson joins us as an advisor to the $300 House.

February 26. 2011
Derek "Deek" Diedricksen joins us as an advisor to the $300 House.

February 26. 2011
Christina M. Alfonso is now an advisor to the $300 House.

February 23. 2011
John Tammaro is now an advisor to the $300 House.

February 18. 2011
Ryan Henderson is now an advisor to the $300 House.

February 12. 2011
Vinay Gupta joins us an advisor to the $300 House.

February 11. 2011
Makrand Bhoot is now an advisor to the $300 House.

February 11. 2011
Samuel Freeman is now an advisor to the $300 House.

February 10. 2011
US Airways features the $300 House in its in-flight magazine.

February 8. 2011
Reggae star David Hinds (Steel Pulse) is now an advisor to the $300 House.

February 2. 2011
David Sands blogs about the $300 House in HBR.

January 28. 2011
Doug Pushard joins the $300 House advisory group.

January 27. 2011
Alex Bogusky introduces COMMON, includes the $300 House!

January 25. 2011
Daniel Klein-Marcuschamer is now an advisor for the $300 House.

January 24. 2011
Christian Blyt joins the $300 House advisory group.

January 24. 2011
The Co-operation Blog mentions the $300 House.

January 21. 2011
Ramona Albert joins the $300 House advisory group.

January 20. 2011
Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi, gives the $300 House a mention!

January 18. 2011
Rafael Smith is now an advisor for the $300 House.

January 17. 2011
Stuart L. Hart is now an advisor for the $300 House.

January 17. 2011
Manoj Sinha of Husk Power Systems is now an advisor for the $300 House.

January 14. 2011
Umair Haque is now an advisor for the $300 House.

January 13. 2011
The $300 House gets a favorable mention in The Economist blog.

January 10. 2011
Dow Corning CEO + Chairman Stephanie A. Burns blogs about the $300 House on the Harvard Business Review blog

January 07. 2011
Students at RMCAD.edu to design $300 Houses. [stay tuned!]

January 05. 2011
Harvard Business Review's Scott Berinato is now an official advisor to the $300 House.

January 04. 2011
3 new advisors: David Sands - the world's leading bamboo architect; Sunil Suri of Menlo Capital Group; and Arun Lal of miloka.com

January 02. 2011
VG's 2011 Agenda in the Harvard Business Review is our $300 House!

The $300 House was first described in a Harvard Business Review blog post by Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar. Initially, we just wanted to put the idea out there, but now, due to the tremendous response, we've decided to see how far we can go toward making it a reality.

The project is investigating three countries with participating organizations: Ethiopia (with Anteneh Roba and International Fund for Africa), Haiti (with Vijay Govindarajan and Dartmouth) and India (with Stuart Hart and Enterprise for a Sustainable World). Stay tuned!

The $300 House in Harvard Business Review:

The $300 House: Businesses Take Up the Challenge
by Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar

The $300 House needs you: students and teachers, individuals, universities, institutions, businesses, and governmental agencies - learn how you can participate!

Our goal is to bring together people, institutions, and businesses in a "creation space" to:

1) turn this idea a reality, and
2) test it out in the field.

We're building an online collective - with passionate, caring participants who choose to collaborate to make this project a reality across the planet.

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The following folks are advisors for the project:

Join the project! [Use the sign-up form at the top-right of this page >>]

Thanks for your interest and support,

Vijay Govindarajan
and
Christian Sarkar
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