Articles by Filippo Veglio
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Friday
November 15
2013Targeting the Base of the Pyramid at Scale : How can large companies overcome internal barriers?
Over the past few months, we have worked with member representatives and experts toward dissecting one particular area: the internal barriers faced by large companies when they want to scale up inclusive business ventures. But we did not limit ourselves to highlighting problems; rather, we opted to couple each barrier to a set of proven solutions that leading companies in this space have adopted. The result is an issue brief titled Scaling up Inclusive Business – Solutions to overcome internal barriers.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Friday
July 19
2013Modelling Inclusive Business Success: Online course on managing key BoP biz barriers kicks off in fall 2013
The European BoP Learning Labs and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development are to teaming up to offer an e-learning course this autumn. The course will target technical and middle management professionals who aim to improve their understanding and skills on approaches to developing, implementing, and scaling inclusive business models.
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- Education
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Thursday
April 11
2013Fortifying Food, Fighting Malnutrition : A WBCSD case study explores BASF’s multi-stakeholder initiative to boost nutrients
Within BASF’s Nutrition & Health division, the improvement of the nutrition, health and wellbeing of consumers all over the world is a main goal. At the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), we researched an initiative by BASF called the Strategic Alliance for the Fortification of Oil and Other Staple Foods (SAFO), for a recent case study.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Wednesday
February 13
2013Measuring Socio-Economic Impact : Tackling some tough questions
When interacting with members and partners of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), several questions about how to tackle the challenge of measuring socio-economic impact often come up.
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- Impact Assessment
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Friday
July 20
2012Guest Post: @ Rio+20 True Engagement: Discussions on Bringing the BoP into Product Development, Marketing
During the Business Day, my organization, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), organized a session focused on “Eradicating poverty through inclusive business solutions”. In a nutshell, the session in Rio highlighted inclusive business models from different sectors and countries as examples of sustainable, market-based solutions in support of poverty eradication and social inclusion in the developing world. It encouraged companies to embrace inclusive business activities by identifying key success factors and opportunities.
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- Education
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Thursday
July 12
2012Guest Post: Sounding Off On Scale – At Rio+20, Big Energy Companies Talk Barriers to Access for All
Business Action for Sustainable Development (BASD 2012), a temporary coalition of 13 international business organizations, hosted more than 800 leaders of government, business, United Nations, NGOs, and other organizations at the BASD 2012 Business Day on June 19 in Rio de Janeiro. The event was held under the theme “Achieving Scale”, and formed the culmination of a year-long process to ensure the business input to the Rio conference was heard.
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- Uncategorized
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- scale
