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Procter and Gamble's PuR Water Purifier – The Hunt for a Sustainable Business Model
Authors: Jones Christensen, Lisa; Thomas, Jessica
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2008
This case presents the range of business models that P&G has explored for the sales and distribution of PuR water purification packets.
Turning Africa Around One Bike at a Time: ACIRFA in 2007
Author: Shi, Y.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Monterey Institute of International Studies
Publication Year: 2008
This case tracks the exciting development of ACIRFA, a US-based non-profit organization, and its Zambia-based social enterprise, ZamBikes.
Genetically Modified Crops in India: The Bt brinjal Controversy
Author: Purkayastha, D.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2008
This case discusses the introduction of Bt brinjal in India in the backdrop of the controversy surrounding genetically modified (GM) crops in India.
Unilever and Oxfam: Understanding the Impacts of Business on Poverty (A, B)
Authors: Smith, N; Crawford, R.
Product Type: Cases
Source:
Publication Year: 2008
In 2003, Unilever and Oxfam embarked on a groundbreaking 'learning project' with the goal of examining the role of business in poverty reduction, specifically by studying Unilever's operations in Indonesia.
Terry Rhodes (A, B)
Authors: Mullins, J; Karim, A.; Putimahtama, T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: London Business School
Publication Year: 2008
Since its inception in March 1998, Celtel, a wireless service provider, set out to change the way business was done in Africa and to prove the transformative effects business could have on the continent and its people.
Kaskazi Network Ltd: Distributing to the Bottom of the Pyramid (A, B, C)
Authors: Sjoblom, L; Karugu, W.; Schuepbach, L.
Product Type: Cases
Source:
Publication Year: 2008
This three part case series deals with the distribution of FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) to low income areas (slums) in Kenya.
Base of the Pyramid Protocol and how the Solae Company Tested It in India
Authors: Purkayastha, D.; Indu, P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2008
This case discusses the involvement of Solae, a joint venture of DuPont and Bunge Ltd, in implementing the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) protocol.
Microsoft's Partnership With UNHCR: Pro Bono Publico?
Authors: Suder, G; Nicolas, N
Product Type: Cases
Source: CERAM Business School
Publication Year: 2008
The case portrays the evolution of the partnership between software giant Microsoft Corporation and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Stakes and Prospects of Nestle's Sustainable Strategy in The Coffee Chain
Authors: Declerck, F; Borot de Battisti, A; Pellerin, R
Product Type: Cases
Source: ESSEC Business School
Publication Year: 2008
The case comprises two parts: (1) a prospective study of Nestle's upstream sustainable development strategy; and (2) a study of the downstream communication strategy from the chain to the public and consumers.
MedShare International: Perfecting and Expanding the Model
Authors: Blum, Terry C.; Thomas, Robert
Product Type: Cases
Source: Terry C. Blum; Robert Thomas
Publication Year: 2008
The mission of MedShare International is to reach people in need with vital medical materials using surplus medical supplies and equipment...
De Beers Consolidated Mines: HIV/AIDS Strategy
Authors: Korpalo, Olga; Zimmerman, Brenda
Product Type: Cases
Source: Schulich School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
Joy Beckett, De Beers’ HIV/AIDS Manager, Operations, returned to Johannesburg from the Toronto International AIDS Conference in August 2006. She was very excited to share her new knowledge and the connections she acquired at the conference with her colleagues. However, she realized she needed to think carefully about how to share her ideas for expanding the impact of De Beers HIV/AIDS programs with her colleagues especially in light of the current company restructuring which had been going on for the last three years. A second wave of retrenchment had been just announced.
Seva Café: Food for the Soul
Authors: Gopalkrishnan, C; Patel, Anar
Product Type: Cases
Source: Institute of Management, Nirma University of Science & Technology
Publication Year: 2008
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Seva Café, a unique social experiment promoted by Manav Sadhana and Gramshree, Civil Society Organizations working for social and economic upliftment in Gujarat, India, operated a small restaurant... By June 2007, the Café achieved financial break-even but the questions of sustainability and growth, among other things, of this unique experiment was still the uppermost concerns of the promoters.
Manos De Valdivia: Chilean Craftswomen Reaching For The Global Market
Authors: Johnson, L; Wiese, N
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Puget Sound
Publication Year: 2008
This case helps students examines the various stakeholders' interests, motivation, and decision-making challenges regarding marketing and legal issues inherent to the development of small, socially-conscious businesses.
African Bank Investments Ltd: Breaking Through Microfinance Frontiers
Authors: Mosala, T.; Denga, B.
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2008
The case reviews the rise of African Bank Investments Limited, under the leadership of Leon Kirkinis, as one of the predominant players in the provision of financial credit services to the mass employed population of South Africa.
Kiva
Authors: Saloner, Garth; Coates, Bethany
Product Type: Cases; Web Sites
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
By 2007, Kiva had gone through a rapid growth phase. The case recounts the debut of the first online person-to-person microfinance organization and looks at the founders' plan for future development.
Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Resources Handbook
Authors: Brock, Debbi D.; Kim, Marina; Davis, Susan
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Ashoka's Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship
Publication Year: 2008
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 1955 views
As advocates for social entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship education, staff at Ashoka have gathered a plethora of resources for both faculty new to the field of social entrepreneurship and seasoned veterans who blazed the trail in the early twenty first century.
Market-Based Strategies Serving Low-Income Populations
Author: Budinich, Valeria
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Asoka Innovators for the Public
Publication Year: 2008
Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition
Authors: Goldberg, Ray A.; Herman, Kerry; Winig, Laura
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Introduces students to successful models for alleviating poverty and malnutrition through public-private cooperatives.
Control Data Corporation and the Urban Crisis
Authors: Nicholas, Tom; Singleton, Laura G.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
Control Data Corporation considers its response to the assassination of renowned civil rights activist Martin Luther King.
Putting a Different Face on Africa: Hope for an Economic Turnaround
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2007
With the world pushing for alternative sources of energy such as windmills or geothermal power, it will be easier to develop and implement these new technologies from scratch in Africa than to impose them on the entrenched power grid in the West. There are numerous opportunities for new technologies to flourish among 900 million Africans who have steadily lagged behind the rest of the developed world so far.
Vegpro Group: Growing in Harmony
Authors: Shelman, Mary L.; Milder, Brian; Bell, David E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
This case illustrates inherent conflicts between social causes.
Entrepreneurial Strategies for Social Impact
Authors: Mair, Johanna; Seelos, Christian
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Progress requires innovation in technologies, products and services but mostly also in the process of how to engage the poor and how to build business models able to satisfy the needs of the poor while being financially sustainable. These solutions are not limited to the non-profit sector or to social entrepreneurs but provide a viable concept for profit oriented firms as well...
Business must take the lead on HIV/Aids
Author: Sands, Peter
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Financial Times
Publication Year: 2007
The fact is that there are still tens of millions of people living with HIV, and the pandemic retains its grim status as the primary cause of death in Africa and one of the leading causes of death in the world.
Micro-franchise Against Malaria
Author: Flannery, Jessica
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2007
The HealthStore Foundation combines microfinance with established franchising practices to address the simple problem of “getting the drugs to sick people when and where they are needed,” says founder and CEO Scott Hillstrom.
Manchester Bidwell Corp. (A, B)
Author: Heskett, James L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
The head of Manchester Bidwell Corp. ponders what it will take to replicate its social services in 100 cities across North America and internationally...
For Suppliers, the Pressure Is On
Author: Deutsch, Claudia H.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2007
Home Depot did not sell organic roses this past Mother's Day. Why? There were no cheap local ones available. And the amount of carbon that would have been emitted by shipping cheap ones from Venezuela seemed to eclipse any environmental benefit of avoiding pesticides and such.
Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Influence of Local Communities on Organizations
Authors: Marquis, Christopher; Battilana, Julie
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
We develop an institutional theory of how local communities continue to matter for organizations, and why community factors are particularly important in a global age.
The Next Generation of Stock Exchanges: Creating Local Stock Exchanges as Hubs to Support Local Living Economies
Author: Katovich, John
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: 2007 Summit on the Future of the Corporation
Publication Year: 2007
We must explore what a new kind of local exchange might look like, which could create an easy way for community residents to invest in local businesses.
In India, Poverty Inspires Technology Workers to Altruism
Author: Giridharadas, Anand
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2007
The best-known networking sites in the industry connect computer-savvy elites to one another. Babajob, by contrast, connects India's elites to the poor at their doorsteps, people who need jobs but lack the connections to find them.
The Potential for Community Development Foundations in Resource-Abundant Countries: A Window of Opportunity for Madagascar
Author: Parker, A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Business-Community Synergies
Publication Year: 2007
Governments have attempted a number of strategies to address the high expectations of citizens. Two commonly used approaches are reviewed in this paper. The first is to allocate by law a well-defined portion of revenues for the specific purpose of redistribution through local levels of government (Mali and Peru are examples). A second approach is to set up a legally mandated "trust fund" that may be publicly or privately managed, with the purpose of ensuring that negative effects from mining are addressed and to ensure the availability of resources over the long term, long after the natural resources have been exhausted (for example, the Chile Copper Fund). A smaller scale approach is for companies to set up community development funds to ensure that local expectations are at least partially met. These corporate efforts, however, do not substitute for the longer term responsibilities of government and the relationship between different levels of government and of citizens. Yet some of the older foundations have been effective in filling gaps in government services. All three approaches are discussed in depth.
Green Power
Author: Ellison, Katherine
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: CNNMoney.com
Publication Year: 2007
Corporate Culture and Environmental Practice
Author: Howard-Grenville, Jennifer
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
This innovative book explores from an insider's perspective a company's environmental decisions and actions. Based on close observation at a major semiconductor manufacturer, Jennifer Howard-Grenville details how the company's culture - revealed through its internal practices, decisions, and norms - guided action on environmental issues...
Mind the Gap
Author: International Energy Agency
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: International Energy Agency
Publication Year: 2007
Significant cost-effective energy efficiency potential is wasted because market barriers prevent countries from achieving optimal levels. Market barriers take many forms, from inadequate access to capital, isolation from price signals, information asymmetry, and split-incentives.
Banking in Developing Countries
Authors: Van Middelkoop, Daniël; Oyevaar, Martin
Product Type: Cases
Source:
Publication Year: 2007
The banking sector in developing countries is the central subject of this case. By using this case, students will get to know themes like globalization, investment climate, social-economic development and the role of the banking sector in society.
Our Intangible Riches
Author: Bailey, Ronald
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Reason Magazine
Publication Year: 2007
Oil, soil, copper, and forests are forms of wealth. So are factories, houses, and roads. But according to a 2005 study by the World Bank, such solid goods amount to only about 20 percent of the wealth of rich nations and 40 percent of the wealth of poor countries...So what accounts for the majority? World Bank environmental economist Kirk Hamilton and his team in the bank's environment department have found that most of humanity's wealth isn't made of physical stuff. It is intangible...
Global Environmental Issues
Author: Innes, John
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
This module provides an overview of current global environmental issues and contextualizes the need for sustainable development business strategies. The objective of this course is to familiarize students with some of the issues currently of greatest concern. This will be done by examining particular themes, such as climate change, the loss of biodiversity, natural resource extraction, and air and water pollution.
Sustainable Development
Author: Vargas, Alberto
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
This interdisciplinary graduate seminar has four main objectives: 1) review core concepts and history of sustainable development; 2) introduce students to innovative frameworks to sustainable development, including institutional analysis, common-pool resource management, and the often overlooked cultural, and psychological underpinnings of environmental decision–making; 3) analyze case studies and examples through the lens of the frameworks presented; 4) provide a forum for graduate students to present their own research interests and examples regarding sustainable development.
Homeboy Industries: An Incubator of Hope and Businesses
Authors: Choi, David Y.; Kiesner, Fred
Product Type: Cases
Source: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 31(5): 769-786.
Publication Year: 2007
This case presents the story of Homeboy Industries, which was founded by Father Greg Boyle, S.J. to offer employment opportunities to former gang members in East Los Angeles. Homeboy Industries has successfully launched several businesses to hire and train “homies” who otherwise may not have found jobs.
Norway: Noah's Ark of Seed Samples Tucked into Arctic Mountainside
Author: Deshayes, Pierre-Henry
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: TerraDaily
Publication Year: 2007
Carved into the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain, a "doomsday vault" housing samples of the world's most important seeds is taking shape to provide mankind with a Noah's Ark of food in the event of a global catastrophe...
Making the Most of Asset Disposal
Author: Strathmann, Joe
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: GreenerComputing
Publication Year: 2007
Environmentally responsible IT asset disposal -- now a top priority for millions of businesses and consumers worldwide -- hadn't fully emerged as the global calling we've come to know...
Steep fuel increases protested in Myanmar
Author:
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Los Angeles Times
Publication Year: 2007
Hundreds of people marched Wednesday to protest steep increases in fuel prices, taking their challenge to Myanmar's military junta to the streets for a second time this week despite the arrest of 13 democracy activists who organized the rally...
India's Rural Poor: Why Housing Isn't Enough to Create Sustainable Communities
Author:
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge @ Wharton
Publication Year: 2007
India's desire to become the world's next big economic power is as real as the enormous challenges it faces in raising the social and economic well being of its rural populations...
Citigroup and Cordaid Award Grants to Support Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade
Author:
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: CSR Wire
Publication Year: 2007
The Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST), an association of financial service providers and organizations invested in the development of "sustainable trade finance", announced today that they have received essential "start-up" grants from Citigroup Foundation and Cordaid...
Introduction to Business and Technology for Sustainable Development
Author: Rudasingwa, Theogene
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: U.C. Berkely, Haas School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
The purpose of this course is to introduce to students the role of, and opportunity for, business and technology for sustainable development in the developing regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Manila Water Company
Authors: Rangan, V. Kasturi; Wheeler, David; Comeault, Jane
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
This case discusses the post-privatization performance of the Manila Water Company in Manila, and the positive effects their emphasis on good corporate governance and sustainable development had on the city's residents, many of whom live in poverty.
Finnancial Institutions and Development
Author: Amerasinghe, Nihal
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: W. Sycip Graduate School of Business
Publication Year:
The International Financial Institutions (IFIs) are important sources of development finance and policy advice to governments of developing countries in Asia. The course (a full elective of 20 sessions) will provide insights into the work of the three most important IFI's working in the Asia-Pacific region, namely the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group, and the Asian Development Bank.
Video: Eco Biz- Green MBA
Author: Samuelson, Judith
Product Type: Multimedia; Interviews
Source: Sundance Channel
Publication Year: 2007
Executive Director Judith Samuelson was featured on the Sundance Channel's EcoBiz series, which highlights profiles of people making big ecological advances within the business world. In this short video, Judith discusses her work to green the MBA and bring today's business world in line with an environmentally challenged world.
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.
IDEAAS and PSA: Replication in the Amazon
Authors: Aubry, Rick; Arippol, Patrick; Hartigan, Pamela
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2007
This case describes two social ventures' experience of collaborating with each other through a replication project funded by Lemelson and the Schwab Foundations.
Communities, Corporations, and the Difference Between Consent and Consult
Author: Baue, Bill
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Web Sites
Source: Corporate Responsibility Officer
Publication Year: 2007
A World Resources Institute report promotes free, prior, informed consent from communities affected by major projects; an International Finance Corporation report advocates consultation...
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