Case Studies
Social Entrepreneurship
- Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Resources Handbook
by Debbi D. Brock
Entrepreneurship for the Public Good
Developed by Ashoka's Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship, this handbook includes a plethora of resources, such as a mapping of over 250 professors who are actively teaching or researching in social entrepreneurship from more than 35 countries, with 29 different competitions, over 800 different articles and 200 cases used in social entrepreneurship courses.
- Social Entrepreneurship: More Than Words
by Connette Gayle
OnPhilanthropy, April 23, 2004
Social Entrepreneurship is not just something people are talking about. Some people are out there doing it — and they are making a real impact on a local and global scale.
(.pdf - 32kb)
- Growing Opportunity: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Insoluble Problems
SustainAbility Ltd and The Skoll Foundation, 2007
This report is the first product of the Skoll Foundation-SustainAbility partnership. It details how the relatively new phenomenon of social entrepreneurship can change the way we think about business, investment and social progress.
(.pdf - 304kb)
- Global Trends in Financing the Social Sector
by Mirnam Shoning
Schwab Foundation for Social Enterprise
This paper examines current trends in financing social initiatives carried out by social entrepreneurs, pointing to the growing number of for-profit entities with shareholders who agree that profits be reinvested in organizations' social purpose.
(.pdf - 72kb)
- Business Services for Small Enterprises in Asia
by Urs Heierli
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Study, January 14, 2000
Study of creating a market for products which are useful to the poor and which will allow them to escape the poverty trap.
(.pdf - 496kb)
- Income Is Development
by Martin Fisher
Innovations, Winter 2006
Article by the founder of KickStart details the organization's efforts to help Kenyan farmers transition to a cash economy using irrigation pumps.
(.pdf - 212kb)
Corporate Social Responsibility
- Doing Business with the Poor: A Field Guide
World Business Council for Sustainable Development, March 2004
Business is now accepted as a key partner and solution-provider in meeting the Millenium Development Goals, and is itself recognizing the needs and the opportunities presented by the world's poor people.
(.pdf - 1,400kb)
Base of the Pyramid
- The Base of the Pyramid
by Nicole Boyer
Global Business Network Working Paper, May 2004
The Base of the Pyramid is being heralded as the biggest potential opportunity in the history of commerce — and at the same time, a troubling future discontinuity for many incumbent players. Which will it be? The answer, most likely, is both.
(.pdf - 404kb)
- Private Sector Strategies for Providing Healthcare at the Bottom of the Pyramid
by John Paul
World Resources Institute, November 2005
This report highlights a number of innovative enterprises that leverage cross-sector partnerships to provide affordable healthcare to the poor.
(.pdf - 166kb)
- Selling to the Poor
by Allen L. Hammond and C.K. Prahalad
Foreign Policy, May/June 2004
Searching for new customers eager to buy your products? Try the world's 4 billion poor people, the largest untapped consumer market on Earth.
(.pdf - 716kb)
- Microfinance: A Platform for Social Change
Grameen Foundation / Marge Magner
The report underscores the importance of microfranchises to help raise people out of poverty in a sustainable manner.
(.pdf - 770kb)
