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India's Economic Agenda: An Interview with Manmohan Singh
Author: Gupta, Rajat K.
Product Type: Journal Articles; Interviews
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2005
The prime minister of India discusses his plans to modernize the country's infrastructure, attract foreign investment, and create jobs -- all in the service of eliminating chronic poverty and disease in India...
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
Natura and Matilde
Authors: Fischer, Rosa Maria; Casado, Tania
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2003
Natura is a company in the personal care, health, and make-up industry in Brazil. The company made sporadic contributions to the communities surrounding its manufacturing plants and office premises, including the Matilde Maria Cremm public school. By 1992, however, Natura's management was not satisfied with the relationship and approached their school counterparts to propose a new kind of relationship that would make the school to become a transformation agent in its community.
Infrastructure Meets Business: Building New Bridges, Mending Old Ones
Authors: Beckman, Sara L.; Gil, Nuno
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2009
An Introduction to the Special Issue on "Infrastructure Meets Business: Building New Bridges, Mending Old Ones."
Management of Community Based Development
Author: Naparstek, A.
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Case Western Reserve University, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
Publication Year: 2003
This class expands on common models of development by examining the fundamentals of building and managing effective community building and community development organizations. The seminar will assess alternative structure, strategies and approaches in the context of empowerment, and social justice issues.
The Real Green IT Machine
Author: Allen, B.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2009
A large bank is attempting to cost justify a proposed, large (60,000 sq ft) data center based upon energy savings achieved through 'green' technology, principally through water cooling and energy recovery.
Sekem- Generating Iridescence and Vitality in Egypt
Author: Weatherhead School of Management
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2008
Sekem was the first company to develop biodynamic farming methods in Egypt.
Sustainable Development in Business
Author: Cohen, David
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: UBC, Sauder School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
A seminar course that focuses on understanding Sustainable Development and the reshaping a business to operate profitably with a triple bottom line. It will foster an understanding of the dynamic tensions inherent in sustainable development and how it impacts business from strategic development to day to day operations.
Hybrid Value Chains: Social Innovations and Development of the Small Farmer Irrigation Market in Mexico
Authors: Budinich, Valeria; Manno-Reott, Kimberly; Schmidt, Stephanie
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Web Sites
Source: Ashoka Innovators for the Public
Publication Year: 2007
Businesses, particularly those whose products and services address basic human needs such as water, housing and health, can enter low-income markets more effectively and with deeper social impact through partnerships...
Baltimore Fund
Authors: Rosenberg, Carin; Joseph, Ricardo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Yale School of Management, the Program on Social Enterprise
Publication Year: 2004
After five years of actively contributing to its local Baltimore community, The Open Society Institute believed there was an opportunity to effect change on a different level...
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.
Beyond the biomedical and behavioural: towards an integrated approach to HIV prevention in the Southern African mining industry
Authors: Campbell, Catherine; Williams, Brian
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Social Science & Medicine
Publication Year: 1999
While migrant labor is believed to play an important role in the dynamics of HIV-transmission in many of the countries of southern Africa, little has been written about the way in which HIV/AIDS has been dealt with in the industrial settings in which many migrant workers are employed.
Energy Efficiency, Innovation, and Job Creation in California
Author: Roland-Holst, David
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: University of California Berkeley
Publication Year: 2008
This study examines the economy-wide employment effects of California’s landmark efficiency policies over the last thirty-five years. Energy efficiency measures have, enabled California households to redirect their expenditures toward other goods and services, creating about 1.5 million jobs.
Los Ejidos de El Salto: Biomass Energy and Carbon Offsets in the El Salto Forests
Authors: Eddy, Len; Mendoza, Alvaro; Clemen, Robert T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Publication Year: 2011
Len Eddy, CEO of The Carbon Basis Company had traveled to 20 different countries looking for new forest biomass energy projects. Near the town of El Salto in central Mexico, he found what he was looking for: an active forest industry with exceptional management and the possibility of developing a bioenergy project. The project would see the conversion of forest harvest debris and sawmill residues into renewable energy. In addition, the project offered two possible pathways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by displacing fossil fuel energy sources and/or by allowing forest carbon sequestration.
Ceramicas of Costaragua: The Challenges of Selling to Low-Income Citizens
Authors: Gutiérrez, Roberto; Trujillo, Diana M.; Orozco, Luz E.; Thiell, Marcus
Product Type: Cases
Source: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network
Publication Year: 2009
During the 1990s, Ceramicas de Costaragua suffered the consequences of policies that liberalized the economy and, amidst a decline in sales, it decided to enter into a new unexplored market in the ceramic sector: low-income consumers.
Corporate Environmental Management in Developing Nations
Author: Rivera, Jorge
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: George Washington University
Publication Year: 2008
The general goal of this course is to provide a graduate level introduction to corporate environmental management in developing countries. While many in the business, government, and non-profit sectors view environmental protection as inevitably ignored and/or a threat to competitiveness, others see win-win opportunities.
The Defining Features of a Megacommunity
Authors: Kelly, Chris; Gerencser, Mark; Napolitano, Fernando; Lee, Reginald Van
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Strategy + Business
Publication Year: 2007
A primer for creating successful multipartite initiatives to solve critical problems that embraces the talents of government, business, and civil society...
Hand in Hand in India
Authors: Barkema, H.; Sjoman, Anders; Lerpold, L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stockholm School of Economics
Publication Year: 2008
Hand in Hand is a multinational NGO working with microfinance and poverty alleviation.
When Workers Take Charge
Author: Smith, Aaron
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: CNNMoney.com
Publication Year: 2009
It's a unique model - the worker-owned business. Some say it sounds like socialism, but these six companies say it's helped them tough out the recession.
Social Entrepreneurship - The Alicia Polak Way
Authors: Gupta, V; Perepu, I.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR
Publication Year: 2007
The case discusses the social entrepreneurship initiatives by Alicia Polak in South Africa. Alicia Polak, who was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch and Company in New York, started a small business venture in the slums of South Africa. The venture was not started as a charity but as a profit generating business. With very little initial investment, Alicia employed women from the neighborhood and taught them how to make high-end cookies, and that was the beginning of Khayelitsha Cookie Company (KCC). She marketed the cookies in hotels and to the tourists who visited South Africa. The cookies soon gained popularity, and she planned to replicate this model in other developing and underdeveloped countries. KCC was expected to break even by the beginning of the year 2007, and the cookies were being marketed in the US and European countries.
Going with the Flow
Author: Levs, Melanie Lasoff
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Pink Magazine
Publication Year: 2006
Why does a corporate behemoth like Coke care about water in small communities? The company recognizes that taking on the ills of the world also can benefit the bottom line, says Dan Vermeer, Coke's director of global water partnerships...
International Council on Mining and Metals
Author:
Product Type: Web Sites
Source:
Publication Year: 2009
ICMM is a CEO-led organization representing many of the world's leading mining and metals companies as well as regional, national and commodity associations.
Tesco's Experience in the Middle Kingdom
Authors: Indu, P; Govind, S
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2009
Tesco, the UK-based retailer, operated in several emerging markets in Europe and Asia. The case focuses on the entry and expansion strategies of Tesco in the Chinese market.
Rights-Based Approaches to Development
Author: Green, Maria
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Brandeis University, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Publication Year: 2006
This course relates to the field of sustainable development as follows: It examines the role that the internationally recognized rights of individuals can play in the development process.
Corporations and Communities
Author: Appell, Michael
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Brandeis University, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Publication Year: 2007
Through case studies and meetings with corporate decision makers, this course explores shifting strategies and developing programs in the rapidly changing area of corporate social responsibility.
Labor Markets and Firm Benefit Policies in Japan and the United States
Authors: Ogura, Seiritsu; Tachibanaki, Toshiaki; Wise, David A.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2003
This paper presents finding from our most recent research on the transformation of participatory employment practices of Japanese firms in the 1990s, during which the Japanese economy slowed down considerably. The operation appears to be of particular public policy interest for many countries considering participatory employment practices as a way to improve their productivity performance and thus competitiveness.
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.
Microfinance Misses its Mark
Author: Karnani, Aneel
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2007
Despite the hoopla over microfinance, it doesn't cure poverty. But stable jobs do. If societies are serious about helping the poorest of the poor, they should stop investing in microfinance and start supporting large, labor-intensive industries. At the same time, governments must hold up their end of the deal, for market-based solutions will never be enough...
The Company That Anticipated History
Author: Graham, Ann
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Strategy + Business
Publication Year: 2006
Access to electricity is always an important first step up the economic ladder. In South Africa, Eskom Holdings Ltd. provides that first step. A government-owned corporation headquartered in the Johannesburg suburb of Sandton, Eskom generates 95 percent of the country's electricity. The company's early embrace of "electricity for all" (as the policy is called) allowed the company to play a leadership role early on in the social transformation of South Africa...
ShoreBank Invents Community Development Banking
Author: Center For Business as an Agent of World Benefit
Product Type: Cases
Source: Center For Business as an Agent of World Benefit, Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2005
Shorebank Corporation's innovation was to use for-profit commercial banking to focus solely on the needs of inner-city urban communities. The organization's mission is to build healthy communities and to increase economic opportunities for low- and moderate-income residents.
ALTIS: A Microfinance Startup in Nepal
Authors: Greene, Jacen; Marshall, Scott
Product Type: Cases
Source: Portland State University
Publication Year: 2010
This case describes the issues and dilemmas facing a social entrepreneur in his efforts to initiate a microfinance operation in the rural agricultural areas of Nepal.
Macro Credit
Author:
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Economist
Publication Year: 2006
For many of the supporters of Muhammad Yunus and the institution he created, the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, the announcement that the two will share a Nobel peace prize is long overdue—the only surprise is that it was so long in coming. The selection committee said the prize was for developing what "had appeared to be an impossible idea", namely loans to people who lack collateral...
Building an Inclusive Green Economy for All: Opportunities and Challenges for Overcoming Poverty and Inequality
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Poverty-Environment Partnership
Publication Year: 2012
Examples of the green economy in practice show great potential for delivering a “triple bottom line” of job–creating economic growth coupled with environmental protection and social inclusion. However, there are significant barriers to realizing this potential on a large scale. To build an inclusive green economy that is equitable and sustainable will require carefully designed policies and targeted investments that enable low and middle-income countries and the poor to contribute to and benefit from the transition...
Scramble for Africa
Author: Turner, Mandy
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: China Dialogue
Publication Year: 2007
As the industrial powers race to extract the continent's natural resources to feed their own consumption, they are fostering environmental degradation, corruption and human-rights abuses. Mandy Turner reports...
The Impact of the Second-hand Clothing Trade on Developing Countries
Authors: Baden, Sally; Barber, Catherine
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Oxfam
Publication Year: 2005
The global trade in second-hand clothing is worth more than $1 billion each year. Supporters of the SHC industry point out that the trade creates employment in the receiving countries and provides low-cost clothing for people living in poverty. At the same time, however, there are concerns that the trade may be undermining local textile and garment industries, and livelihoods in some developing countries.
WaterHealth International: Providing Safe Drinking Water to the Bottom of the Pyramid Consumers
Authors: Faheem, Hadiya; Purkayastha, Debapratim
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2010
This case study is about Irvine, California-based WaterHealth International Inc., a social purpose for-profit venture in the safe water sector, focused on serving the traditionally underserved "Bottom of the Pyramid" segment. The company’s aim was to ensure increasing returns for the company and its investors while achieving a social impact.
Thought Leadership: Access
Authors: FedEx; Stanford Research Institute International
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: FedEx Corp.
Publication Year: 2009
This site provides links to publications related to FedEx's Access project.
The Other Path
Authors: De Soto, Hernando; Abbott, June
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Perseus Books Group; 1st edition
Publication Year: 2002
Of all the terrorist movements since World War II that had any realistic potential to form a national government, only one was decisively defeated on the battleground of ideas...
CEMEX's Foundations for Sustainability
Authors: Yatsko, Pamela; Raffaelli, Ryan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Discusses CEMEX's sustainability efforts. Covers acquisitions, agility, competitive strategy, emerging markets, organizational transformations.
Globalization in the Apparel and Textile Industries: What is New and What is Not?
Authors: Abernathy, Frederick H.; Dunlop, John T.; Hammond, Janice H.; Weil, David
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Stanford Business Books
Publication Year: 2003
What's all the fuss about the globalization of the textile and apparel industries? This paper sketches out the important changes that have occurred in the distribution of products in the U.S. market and then demonstrates why the calculus of sourcing decisions has changed.
A Closer Look at Business Education: Energy Efficiency
Author: Wu, Gina
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
With the advent of wind power, nuclear power plants, and solar panels, public conversation around energy and the environment has largely been focused more on finding alternative sources of energy than on examining energy use. However, if society shifted to a more end-use focus on improving energy efficiency, this swing would represent an enormous opportunity for businesses to generate profits, as well as humanity to reduce international energy dependence and combat climate change.
When Corporations Rule the World
Author: Korten, David C.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 2nd edition
Publication Year: 2001
This is a thought-provoking book about the power of corporations.
Business on the Frontlines
Author: Bartkus, Viva
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Notre Dame
Publication Year: 2008
The objectives of this course are to (1) introduce basic concepts in developmental economics and peace through commerce; (2) delve more deeply into the specific political, cultural, economic and business challenges of a war-torn country; (3) investigate, based on a field visit, both the activities of local and/or international businesses in a war-torn region and the positive/negative impact of those business activities.
Entrepreneurship Education And Social Justice
Authors: Kourilsky, M.; Walstad, W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Senate Hall Academic Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
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It is the purpose of this paper to show that not only are the goals of social justice and entrepreneurship education capable of simultaneous realization, but also to argue that entrepreneurship education is a viable and even potent economic access strategy for enabling a social justice agenda.
Part of the Solution: Leveraging Business and Markets for Low-Income People
Author: Weiser, John
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Ford Foundation, 2005
Publication Year: 2005
This report presents lessons learned from the Corporate Involvement (CI) Initiative of the Ford Foundation, an effort that sought to demonstrate that businesses could use core operating resources and competencies in ways that contribute to large-scale improvement in income and assets for low-income people, while benefiting business.
The Retail Revolution in Health Insurance
Authors: Latkovic, Tom; Singhal, Shubham
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
More and more, payers are dealing with individual consumers, not companies. They will have to change their products, their mind-sets, and their competencies...
Fighting Poverty With $2-a-Day Jobs
Author: Hart, Peter D.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2006
JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ, a veteran of the Rockefeller Foundation and a former consultant to the World Bank, talks enthusiastically about the development of a company in Africa where some 2,000 women earn, on average, $1.80 a day producing antimalarial bed netting.
The Consumer Culture of Poverty
Authors: Hill, Ronald Paul; Gaines, Jeannie
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
Publication Year: 2007
The purpose of this article is to bring a subset of this scholarship together in order to examine the concept and reality of the consumer culture of poverty as derived from ethnographic and qualitative investigations of various subpopulations of poor American consumers.
Employee Financial Participation in the New Member States
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Publication Year: 2007
This report looks at the current situation in relation to employee financial participation (EFP) and its recent developments in the new Member States (NMS) of the EU: Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
The Small-Mart Revolution
Authors: Shuman, Michael H.; McKibben, Bill
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Year: 2006
Defenders of globalization, free markets, and free trade insist there's no alternative to mega-stores like Wal-Mart — Michael Shuman begs to differ. In The Small-Mart Revolution, Shuman makes a compelling case for his alternative business model, one in which communities reap the benefits of "going local" in four key spending categories: goods, services, energy, and finance...
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