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Topic: Social Need as Business Opportunity
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Felipe Vergara and Lumni: Launching an Innovation in a Developing Economy
Authors: Glinska, Gosia; Parmar, Bidhan; Sarasvathy, Saras D.; Venkataraman, S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
The case chronicles the development of Lumni, Inc, an international start-up offering innovative mechanisms for financing higher education.
Socially Responsible Distribution: Strategies for Reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid
Authors: Vachani, Sushil; Smith, N. Craig
Product Type: Cases
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2008
This article identifies how socially responsible distribution can be achieved by strategies that reduce costs, reinvent the distribution channel, or incorporate a long-term approach to investment.
A Model of Clean Energy Entrepreneurship in Africa: E+Co's Path to Scale
Authors: Branzei, Oana; McKague, Kevin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
The founder and executive director of E+Co faces the challenge of ten-fold growth and reviews the core parts of the company's innovative business model, the changes in the energy markets around the world, and the rationale for local solutions to energy scarcity and inefficiency.
The Mirage of Marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid
Author: Karnani, Aneel
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2007
This article argues that the private sector can play a key role in poverty alleviation by viewing the poor as producers, not just potential consumers, and emphasize buying from them, rather than selling to them.
Eco-Tourism at the Dana Reserve
Authors: Bird, Laura; Linowes, Richard
Product Type: Cases
Source: Emerging Markets Development Advisers Program
Publication Year: 2004
The Feynan Lodge was meant to be an economically self-sustaining eco-tourism lodge after its opening, but projected staffing and operational costs were daunting.
Platform-Mediated Networks
Author: Eisenmann, Thomas R.
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Defines platform-mediated networks and introduces concepts central to their study.
Digital Divide Data
Authors: Leonard, Herman B.; Smith, Wendy K.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
In February 2001, Hockenstein and four others traveled to Phnom Penh looking for a way to connect US market needs with the Cambodian workforce. They decided that a for-profit business could bring in revenues, provide job opportunities and train employees with skills for a better future. They focused on the data entry outsourcing business because it was a labor-intensive technology industry that offered on-the-job experience and training in English.
Phyto-Riker Pharmaceuticals
Authors: McMillan, John; Dosunmu, Ade
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2003
This case gives students the opportunity to explore decision making when operating in third-world environments where uncertainty can be prevalent. Students can also wrestle with the economics and regulation of the pharmaceuticals industry and the ethics of drug pricing.
Specialisterne: Sense & Details
Authors: Austin, Robert D.; Wareham, Jonathan; Busquets, Javier
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
The case helps students to examine the challenges of growing a for-profit social enterprise business, as well as to examine the software testing business.
TransFair USA
Authors: Aubry, Rick; Powell, Greg
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2004
TransFair USA, the U.S. fair trade labeling arm of the Fair Trade Labeling Organization (FLO), faced strategic challenges in 2003. The Fair Trade label denoted coffee (and other products) sold at a price high enough to allow small certified farmers to earn a living wage...
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