-
Microfranchise modes of healthcare delivery
Along with John and Cory, I had attended BYU?s Microfranchise Learning Lab in Washington DC this past Friday. Two of the four microfranchises featured, HealthStore Kenya and Scojo, operate in the health industry. Granted, microfranchises are flourishing in many industries (see Kirk...
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Microfinance and MicroFranchises: A Perfect Marriage?
Microfinance: Very small loans provided to the poor to provide capital for starting a very small business.MicroFranchise: A small business that can easily be replicated by following proven mentoring, marketing, and operational concepts found in formal franchises.Put them together, and...
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Creating a World Development Corporation
Since the anti-globalization movement burst into the mainstream during the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, multinational corporations (MNCs) have come under increasing scrutiny for their business practices in developing countries. The debate has often centered on whether MNCs and...
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
The ?Year of Microcredit?: A Retrospective
2005 was designated as the ?Year of Microcredit? by the United Nations, a title meant to raise awareness of the need to build inclusive financial sectors and strengthen the powerful, but often untapped, entrepreneurial spirit existing in communities around the world. Microfinance is...
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Who profits Whom? Whole Foods CEO and Friedman quibble.
This is not BOP so much as CSR (corporate social responsibility)-related, but the philosophy for the latter certainly affects the former.? Both involve the guiding ethic for how much to profit and who should benefit.” Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business": A Reason...
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Updates to Harvard Global Poverty Conference page
We’ve updated the Harvard Global Poverty Conference page on Nextbillion.net with almost two dozen PowerPoint presentations. The 3-day conference featured case studies on and empirical research of successful business models, the role of civil society and government, and the ethical and...
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
The Honey Bee Network: A Reintroduction
If necessity is the mother of all invention, then people living at the base of the pyramid should have plenty of marketable ideas. Anil Gupta, executive chairperson of the National Innovation Foundation (NIF) and the founder of the Honey Bee Network thinks so. For 16 years, he’s been...
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Business and Development: a confused marriage
The Edelman communications and public relations firm recently released “Business and International Development,"a survey of what businesses are expected to contribute to internationaldevelopment and what their responsibilities are. The participantssurveyed were anonymous, but...
- Categories
- Uncategorized
