Articles by Beth Jenkins
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Tuesday
September 22
2009Reconciling Social Motives and Profitable Means
Reconciling social motives with profitable means of achieving them is a fundamental, underlying tension - a constructive one, I think - in the development through enterprise space. We’re far short of consensus, but more and more people seem to buy the "why" and the "whether." What we’re discussing is increasingly the "how." This was reflected...
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Tuesday
September 15
2009Franchising in Frontier Markets
Last week, I attended a workshop on "Franchising in Frontier Markets" hosted by IFC and the John Templeton Foundation. More than 50 investors, consultants, and practitioners using franchise-based methods to serve BoP markets participated in what turned out to be a very interactive day - very few presentations, and lots of talking...
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Thursday
May 14
2009Can Big Companies Drive Development through Enterprise? President Clinton and CEOs Weigh In
Yesterday I heard former US President Bill Clinton, as well as Coca Cola and ADM’s CEOs talk about ways big companies can "create value for business and society" on a panel moderated by Brookings Institution VP and former UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervi?. The panel was hosted by Brookings and the Clinton Global Initiative in Washington DC.
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Monday
March 2
2009Guest Post: Could ?GIM 2.0? Enable Scale through Policy Innovation?
In 2008, UNDP?s Growing Inclusive Markets Initiative released its first report, Creating Value for All. It is now considering its next steps, "GIM 2.0". While awareness and interest in inclusive business seem to be growing, few inclusive business models have actually achieved scale. What is the role of initiatives like GIM in this context?
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