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The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
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Business faculty member Ted 

London spoke about the need 
for private enterprise to develop 
solutions on a large scale to tackle 
global poverty on Tuesday at 
the Ross School of Business. The 
talk, which was sponsored by the 
Center for Positive Organizations, 
drew approximately 150 students, 
faculty and locals to the Business 
School Colloquium.

London 
is 
also 
the 
vice 

president of the Scaling Impact 
Initiative at the University of 
Michigan’s 
William 
Davidson 

Institute 
— 
an 
independent, 

nonprofit organization focused on 
providing private-sector solutions 
in emerging markets — and has 
worked on a variety of projects 
throughout the developing world.

Having dedicated his life to 

researching the pervasiveness of 
poverty throughout the planet and 

devising solutions for businesses to 
tackle these issues, London said he 
believes the world cannot simply 
donate its way out of poverty.

London believes that global 

poverty is the biggest problem 
facing the world. He illustrated this 
assertion by enlisting the global 
socioeconomic pyramid, a visual 
representation that divides the 
world’s wealth into three tiers: the 
“wealthy” at the top, the “emerging 
middle class” in the middle and 
the “base of the pyramid” at the 
bottom. Those at the base of the 
pyramid make less than $3,000 per 
year while the global “1 percent” 
are earners who make more than 
$380,000 per year.

“If we don’t solve the poverty 

problem, the inequity, honestly, 
this is going to be a very ugly 
world,” London said. “We cannot 
have billions of people on the 
outside looking in.”

London envisions a central role 

for private enterprise in developing 
products 
and 
businesses, 
but 

also believes it is important for 
businesses to develop solutions 
that can be crafted on a scale large 
enough to make a significant dent 
in eradicating global poverty.

“If you are thinking about 

billions of people, scale becomes so 
crucial,” London said. “I think we 
can solve vexing social problems, 
including impoverishment faced 
by the world’s poorest citizens, but 
we have to deliver results that are 
sustainable at scale.”

Business 
graduate 
student 

Anuj Narayanan said he believes 
London’s 
thoughts 
on 
how 

businesses can create value for the 
global poor imbued in him a sense 
of how a wide range of industry has 
the potential to help lift people out 
of poverty.

“Companies can create value for 

the bottom of the pyramid, and also 
for themselves,” Narayanan said. 
“If they can do that at scale, they 
can actually bring the majority 
of people in the bottom out of 
poverty.”

According 
to 
London, 

businesses and corporations 
that aim to tackle global 
poverty 
by 
developing 

solutions at the necessary scale 
must adhere to four principles: 
design for success, plan for 
scale, manage value creation 
and develop partnerships.

Yet, to London, Western 

companies and organizations 
aiming to develop solutions for 
poor populations in Africa and 
Asia must enlist locals to tap 
into their knowledge of local 
customs, politics and business.

Business graduate student 

Pranay 
Lagadapati, 
who 

is planning to work at an 
energy company in India 
after graduation this spring, 
said 
he 
believes 
Western 

organizations and companies 
too often fail to enlist locals 
in projects, but locals lack 
knowledge of how to develop 
businesses and products that 
could help alleviate poverty.

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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Author’s Forum

WHAT: English Prof. Peter 
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Fortunes,” which recastes the 
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WHO: Author’s Forum

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WHERE: Michigan Union, 
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will present from his chapbooks. 

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WHERE: Bob and Betty Beyster 
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and resilience of the city. 
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SEMESTER

Cantina Taqueria + Bar, 

formerly known as BTB Cantina, 

is beginning the year with a brand 

new look. The nine-year-old bar, 

known for its late-night dancing and 

Mexican cuisine, revamped its taco 

menu and redesigned its interior 

space over Winter Break.

Adam Lowenstein and Justin 

Herrick, co-owners of Cantina and 

five other bars and restaurants, said 

the makeover came from a need 

to give the dancing space, bar and 

restaurant area each their own 

identity.

“We felt like we really needed a 

refresh,” Lowenstein said. “The idea 

was to basically separate BTB from 

Cantina.”

To accomplish this, they 

brought all the booths into one space 

and unified the paint color to make 

it look the same.

“Cantina has multiple 

identities,” Lowenstein said. “The 

whole problem that we have here 

is to try and really nail each one of 

those identities. It’s a bar at night 

and it’s a club; it has that whole 

South U kind of drinking aspect to 

it. But we have a restaurant too that 

operates through lunch and dinner. 

So we wanted to make it function 

— lunch, happy hour, dinner, late-

night — and really have a smooth 

transition throughout the day.”

Lowenstein said the biggest part 

of the menu changes was making 

seven different kinds of tacos. Over 

the summer, Cantina partnered 

with chef Magdiale Wolmark, a 

two-time James Beard nominee.

“We met up through some 

mutual friends,” Lowenstein said. 

“We decided to partner up on the 

menu. We needed to go above 

and beyond. Our whole idea was 

bringing in a chef and focusing on 

this menu to really nail these flavors 

and bring the quality of the food up, 

in order to create a destination.”

Their collaboration sought to 

shape Cantina’s new identity in 

focusing on a handcrafted taco 

menu with unique flavors and local 

sourcing. Herrick lauded Wolmark’s 

background in promoting and 

serving local food, and said they 

were able to work quickly.

“(Wolmark) brings the whole 

farm to table ethos to the menu,” 

Lowenstein said. “So our sourcing 

is local as much as it can be. Really 

where we put a lot of our time and 

energy was crafting this taco menu. 

At Cantina, we’re focusing on tacos, 

that’s our goal here. So we really 

fleshed out the taco menu.”

The drink menu now features 

craft and Mexican beers, as well as 

a margarita soda on tap. One feature 

the owners are won’t be changing, 

though, is the already successful 

Taco Tuesday.

“That’s one of our best days 

here,” Lowenstein said. “So we 

decided to really focus in on that 

success and really identify ourselves 

as an awesome taco joint.”

Lowenstein said students have 

reacted positively to the changes, 

especially the new flavors of tacos.

“We feel like it’s a comfortable 

space to hang out with a group,” 

Lowenstein said. “People don’t give 

students enough credit for their 

palette and their exposure to cool 

trends and cool foods that are out 

there. I think people have been 

really positive about the changes.”

Lowenstein said though 

Cantina is still a bar and a 

club, he hopes students will 

begin to recognize Cantina as a 

restaurant too.

“We have people who don’t 

even recognize Cantina as more 

than just a bar,” Lowenstein said. 

“So hopefully as people get to 

understand the breadth of what 

we do and try the food, things will 

begin to change.”

-KEVIN BIGLIN

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