Yale China India class
Great themes- urbanization and sustainability. Nice website!
Great themes- urbanization and sustainability. Nice website!
A great TED talk by Ernesto Sirolli about "appreciative inquiry" and social entrepreneurship.
Braskem announces green polypropylene unit to be operational 2nd half 2013. Working with Fundação Espaço Eco, consulting from DOM Strategy Partners. Also the Akatu Institute. Currently making sugarcane plastic bottles for Natura, Odwala, P&G among others.
An attempt to move 16M Brazilians out of poverty by 2014.
Legal structure for socially responsible corps.
A great looking capstone class at Stanford on BOP innovation
The founder of Craig's List starts a nonprofit, built on making connections.
A decent, simple model for corporate giving/social responsibility.
Instead of Super Bowl ads, community grants. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31pepsi.html?hpw I wish there was more connection to Pepsi's mission, but what is their mission?
What happens when they decide to spend 1% of profits on philanthropy? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/business/30charity.html?ref=technology
and other approaches to unemployment problems. Building cultural awareness is a great educational skill. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/beyond-the-business-suit/
Ashoka's view on trends: participative, sector agnostic http://ashoka.org/story/ashokas-amy-clark-trends-look-2011
NYT article on b schools teaching social entrepreneurship, includes Yale SOM. Go Tony!
Doing good pays. Involved employees work harder. Involved consumers are more loyal. Equitable supply chains are more stable." http://www.economist.com/blogs/theworldin2011/2010/11/sir_richard_branson_and_enlightened_capitalism
Great social venture, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atximyxbjgI plus they use bikes.
is launching a new chapter in the Twin Cities http://usa.ashoka.org/fellows-map
How can organizations authentically support causes? http://content.usatoday.com/communities/kindness/post/2010/11/carol-cone-to-corporate-america-cause-marketing-as-we-know-it-is-dead/1
The UN awards prizes for sustainable ventures. Treetap uses latex from rubber coop to as a material for bags.
Only up to 2005, but good background on Natura
Alternative electric vehicle Arcimoto is gaining credibility through external validation from 2010 Cleantech Open Business Competition
2004 article from knowledge@Wharton, good quote from Sergio Braga, coordinator of the Center for Sustainability Studies (CES) at the Getulio Vargas Foundation. and their energy dilemma
Ashoka study with relevance to Brazil
Good case on how certification can sustain rain forests. NYT article Indonesia and SE Asia focused, but refernce made to soybeans and the Amazon. Interesting role of NGOs, GreenPeace in particular.
Wonderful socially responsible business model. How do you sell shoes online?
This NYT article surfaces some amazing and tragic stakeholder issues. What would Milton Friedman say? Focus on behaviors that are unethical, yet still legal.
Nicholas Kristof op ed piece from NYT 1 15 09. Good short video.
Great infrastructure issues and running packs strategy. Note counter example about Mark and Spencer
Lift Kids is an interesting business based non profit addressing at risk kids in extreme poverty.
Just when you though there was nothing new to do with t shirts:
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007836.html
socially responsible t shirt recycling with heavy consumer awareness and website/ social networking play
Nice Christensen like observation about global strategy. Good emphasis on role of social contributions.
http://www.aperianglobal.com/publications_newsletter.asp
From NYT article on Google.org philanthropy plan:
The second initiative, called “the missing middle,� refers to the missing middle class in Africa and South Asia and the missing middle level of financing between microcredits and hedge funds.
Microcredit funds currently provide families with three or four or five days of livelihood, Dr. Brilliant said. “No country,� he said, “has ever emerged from poverty because of microcredit. Jobs make that possible. China did it with manufacturing, India did it with outsourced call centers.�
To that end, DotOrg has awarded $3 million to TechnoServe to find worthy entrepreneurs and help them build credit records and get access to larger markets.
Chocolate in Beta Testing, Offered by a Wired Founder
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/technology/10chocolate.html?em&ex=1197608400&en=f2de9b220307ee3c&ei=5087%0A
Nice case, trial and error learning, web of relationships
Kindle ebook may be a way to dissect an innovation strategy: divergence in publishing, trial and error learning, web of relationships, social responsibility trend. This is a long article- a shorter one may be more appropriate for a case.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1851
Possible case about an innovative clothing line, supposedly with seaweed. Good way to discuss setbacks, perhaps the web of relationships.
http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntget=2007/11/14/business/14seaweed.html&tntemail0=y&oref=slogin
Good video on 100 MPG concept car that resells energy back to the grid.
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/09/04/video-rmis-hypercar-a-100-mpg-suv-featuring-amory-lovins/
Nice explanation on what to do and why to do it. Credible independent verification of CSR efforts by Clinton Foundation
http://www.news.com/Good-for-business,-good-for-society/2008-1036_3-6212067.html
I like this innovation quote:
"Jobs will go where there is the best-educated work force, the right infrastructure, and a focus on innovation and supportive governments."
Interesting case involving multicultural networks, team building.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2007/07/13/ypwr.intv.sumaya.kazi.cnn
http://www.examiner.com/a-457829~Sumaya_Kazi__An_online_world_for_young__ethnic_professionals.html
http://www.theculturalconnect.com/home
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2007/02/05/smallb1.html
Great article about differentiation through the supply chain. Also nice examples of social entrepreneurship and sustainability.
To Burundi and Beyond for Coffee’s Holy Grail, By PETER MEEHAN
Published: September 12, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/dining/12coff.html?ex=1190260800&en=d62e65553a27dbce&ei=5070
website for counter culture:
http://www.counterculturecoffee.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Bikes to Rwanda, related nonprofit:
http://www.bikestorwanda.com/
Good comprehensive article from NYT on pollution situation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/world/asia/26china.html?em&ex=1188360000&en=3a0d26098171c368&ei=5087%0A
Important to get all of the nuance when discussing with students.
-Comparison to US and UK development phase
-US current record on pollution
-conflicting priorities in China
-entrepreneurial opportunities related to the environment
-impact on creative class economy
-political will in China
This could be an interesting case with social entrepreneurship emphasis.
Glee Gum http://www.gleegum.com/news-confectioner.htm
Lots of trends and no conclusions in this article about new Google and Microsoft initiatives. Could be a good case about trends, social repsonibility and innovation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/technology/14healthnet.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5087%0A&em&en=66c63ffcdb8643a8&ex=1187236800