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  • 1.  Grameen USA

    Posted 03-19-2009 05:13

    Hi Aarti

     

    Though I don't have one on Grameen USA, I have two books filled with related cases from far flung places. 

     

    Charles Wankel, ed.  Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.  Overview: Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy begins with an overview of the current global economic landscape and a criticism of the failed strategies for poverty alleviation over the last fifty years.  The way in which the for-profit model can be harnessed to provide the poor with a share in the world's prosperity is then discussed and shown through actual experiences and cases, and nested in innovative theories of business, the social sciences, and philosophy.  This volume is part of the growing realization that business development is the most effective weapon in fighting world poverty.  Table of Contents: Introduction: A Variety of Approaches to Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy, by Charles Wankel; The End of Foreign Aid as We Know It: The Profitable Alleviation of Poverty in a Globalized Economy, by Scott Kelley, Patricia H. Werhane, & Laura P. Hartman; Innovative Business Approaches and Poverty: Toward a First Evaluation, by Emmanuel Raufflet, Alain Berranger, & Alam Aguilar-Platas; Information and Communication Technology for Poverty Alleviation through Education and Healthcare – the India Experience, by Nilay M. Yajnik; A Collaborative-Systemic Strategy Addressing the Dynamics of Poverty in Guatemala: Converting Seeming Impossibilities into Strategic Probabilities, by James L. Ritchie-Dunham; In Search of Sustainable Social Mission Ventures to Eliminate Poverty, by Shelby McIntyre, Albert Bruno, & Patrick Guerra; Scrutinizing the Link between Poverty and Business Strategy: What Can We Learn from the Case of Shuttle Traders in Laleli, Istanbul?, by Mine Eder & Özlem Öz; Alleviating Poverty Using Microfranchising Models: Case Studies and a Critique, by Lisa Jones Christensen; Using Business to Create a More Vibrant Craft Sector, by Jan Hack Katz; Doing Well by Doing Good – Strategizing for the Bottom of the Pyramid in India, by Wolfgang Amann & Shiban Khan; Marketing in Subsistence Marketplaces, by Madhu Viswanathan, Srinivas Sridharan, & Robin Ritchie.

     

    James A.F. Stoner & Charles Wankel, eds.  Innovative Approaches to Reducing Global Poverty, Information Age Publishing, 2007.  Overview: This book presents many innovative approaches to reducing poverty through business commitment, involvement, and leadership.  Some of these approaches may look promising now at their current level of success but will turn out to be limited in their scalability or in their ability to sustain themselves and endure over time.  However, all of them offer fruitful grounds for inquiry and learning.  It is our intention that sharing the learning from these projects and initiatives from around the world will be useful to others committed to assisting the poor in escaping from poverty-especially be bringing the poor into productive business activities.  It is also our intention that these experiences stimulate ideas for new directions that build on and go beyond the rich variety of projects and successes described by the authors in this book.  The book supports C.K. Prahalad's work made available in a number of ways including his very influential book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits (Wharton, 2004).  Prahalad's work has called attention to creative ways to think about the question of poverty and how it might be reduced and eventually eliminated.  He suggests ways of thinking and acting that break many of the traditional rigidities that occur in how we think about markets and business practices.  Although one theme of Prahalad's work relates to the benefits of marketing to the poor by supplying products better fitting the needs of low income individuals and groups, his work also emphasizes ways in which the poor can produce innovatively conceived and designed products for themselves and for others.  This emphasis on enabling the poor to become productive is also presented forcefully in Craig and Peter Wilson's, Make Poverty Business: Increase Profits and Reduce Risks by Engaging with the Poor (Greenleaf, 2006).  Like Drucker, they see the real challenge to helping the poor find work that is productive and sustainable.  One of their contributions is their emphasis on the importance of creating access to credit and insurance as an important part of enabling people to achieve productive livelihoods.  Table of Contents: Part I: Social Ventures for Reducing Poverty – Creating Skills and Jobs... and Perhaps Models; Social Venture Business Strategies for Reducing Poverty, by Lisa Easterly & Paul Miesing; Reducing Poverty through Social Entrepreneurship: The Case of Edun; by Brett R. Smith & Terri Feldman Barr; Sustainable Workforce Models:  Lessons from India on Training and Development of Unskilled Labor by Cynthia S. Cycyota & Wendy Volkland; Eco-Stacking: A Strategy for Succcess in Social and Business Agendas, by Neerja Raman; Part II: Social Ventures - Learning From, Evolving through, and Surviving Bumps in the Road; Banking on Women for Poverty Reduction: Portrait of Kenya Women's Finance Trust, by Faith Wambura Ngunjiri; Reducing Poverty through Strategy and Innovation in a Bangladesh Community Development Project, by James Spee; Part III: For For-Profit Organizations Reducing Poverty – "Doing Well and Doing Good"; Reducing Poverty through Successful Business:  The Role of Social Capital, by Peter S. Heslam; Creating Market Size: Regional Strategies for Use in the Least Developed Areas of the World, by Scott A. Hipsher; Measuring the Contribution of Small Firms to Reducing Poverty and Increasing Social Inclusion in the UK, by Fergus Lyon & Marcello Bertotti; Reducing Poverty through Retail-Led Regeneration in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods: A British Perspective, by Paul Whysall.

     

    Best regards,

     

    Charles


    Charles Wankel

    http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~wankelc 

    wankelc@stjohns.edu

    Add me on LinkedIn using that email address, Facebook too!

     

     

     

    From: Sharma, Aarti [mailto:asharma@coba.usf.edu]
    Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 3:01 AM
    To: ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Grameen USA

     

    Hi Colleagues,

     

    I am searching for a teaching case study on Grameen USA for my classes. I have not been able to locate one. If you have read it, please email me its reference details.

     

    Thank you,

    Aarti

     

    Aarti Sharma, Ph.D.

    Instructor of Strategic Management
    Department of Management & Organization
    College of Business Administration
    University of South Florida
    4202 E. Fowler Ave., BSN-3524
    Tampa, FL-33620-5500
    Tel: 813-974-4354
    Fax: 813- 974-1734
    Email: asharma@coba.usf.edu
    Web: http://www.coba.usf.edu/departments/management/faculty/sharma/index.html

     



  • 2.  Grameen USA

    Posted 03-20-2009 02:13
    See also http://fiumicrolenders.fiu.edu for a sketch of a service model adoptable by CBA's et al
    ________________________________________
    From: Organizations and the Natural Environment Discussion [ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Wankel [wankelc@VERIZON.NET]
    Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:13 AM
    To: ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Re: Grameen USA

    Hi Aarti

    Though I don’t have one on Grameen USA, I have two books filled with related cases from far flung places.

    [cid:image005.jpg@01C9A851.64C46660]Charles Wankel, ed. Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Overview: Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy begins with an overview of the current global economic landscape and a criticism of the failed strategies for poverty alleviation over the last fifty years. The way in which the for-profit model can be harnessed to provide the poor with a share in the world’s prosperity is then discussed and shown through actual experiences and cases, and nested in innovative theories of business, the social sciences, and philosophy. This volume is part of the growing realization that business development is the most effective weapon in fighting world poverty. Table of Contents: Introduction: A Variety of Approaches to Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy, by Charles Wankel; The End of Foreign Aid as We Know It: The Profitable Alleviation of Poverty in a Globalized Economy, by Scott Kelley, Patricia H. Werhane, & Laura P. Hartman; Innovative Business Approaches and Poverty: Toward a First Evaluation, by Emmanuel Raufflet, Alain Berranger, & Alam Aguilar-Platas; Information and Communication Technology for Poverty Alleviation through Education and Healthcare – the India Experience, by Nilay M. Yajnik; A Collaborative-Systemic Strategy Addressing the Dynamics of Poverty in Guatemala: Converting Seeming Impossibilities into Strategic Probabilities, by James L. Ritchie-Dunham; In Search of Sustainable Social Mission Ventures to Eliminate Poverty, by Shelby McIntyre, Albert Bruno, & Patrick Guerra; Scrutinizing the Link between Poverty and Business Strategy: What Can We Learn from the Case of Shuttle Traders in Laleli, Istanbul?, by Mine Eder & Özlem Öz; Alleviating Poverty Using Microfranchising Models: Case Studies and a Critique, by Lisa Jones Christensen; Using Business to Create a More Vibrant Craft Sector, by Jan Hack Katz; Doing Well by Doing Good – Strategizing for the Bottom of the Pyramid in India, by Wolfgang Amann & Shiban Khan; Marketing in Subsistence Marketplaces, by Madhu Viswanathan, Srinivas Sridharan, & Robin Ritchie.


    [cid:image006.jpg@01C9A851.64C46660]James A.F. Stoner & Charles Wankel, eds. Innovative Approaches to Reducing Global Poverty, Information Age Publishing, 2007. Overview: This book presents many innovative approaches to reducing poverty through business commitment, involvement, and leadership. Some of these approaches may look promising now at their current level of success but will turn out to be limited in their scalability or in their ability to sustain themselves and endure over time. However, all of them offer fruitful grounds for inquiry and learning. It is our intention that sharing the learning from these projects and initiatives from around the world will be useful to others committed to assisting the poor in escaping from poverty—especially be bringing the poor into productive business activities. It is also our intention that these experiences stimulate ideas for new directions that build on and go beyond the rich variety of projects and successes described by the authors in this book. The book supports C.K. Prahalad’s work made available in a number of ways including his very influential book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits (Wharton, 2004). Prahalad’s work has called attention to creative ways to think about the question of poverty and how it might be reduced and eventually eliminated. He suggests ways of thinking and acting that break many of the traditional rigidities that occur in how we think about markets and business practices. Although one theme of Prahalad’s work relates to the benefits of marketing to the poor by supplying products better fitting the needs of low income individuals and groups, his work also emphasizes ways in which the poor can produce innovatively conceived and designed products for themselves and for others. This emphasis on enabling the poor to become productive is also presented forcefully in Craig and Peter Wilson’s, Make Poverty Business: Increase Profits and Reduce Risks by Engaging with the Poor (Greenleaf, 2006). Like Drucker, they see the real challenge to helping the poor find work that is productive and sustainable. One of their contributions is their emphasis on the importance of creating access to credit and insurance as an important part of enabling people to achieve productive livelihoods. Table of Contents: Part I: Social Ventures for Reducing Poverty – Creating Skills and Jobs… and Perhaps Models; Social Venture Business Strategies for Reducing Poverty, by Lisa Easterly & Paul Miesing; Reducing Poverty through Social Entrepreneurship: The Case of Edun; by Brett R. Smith & Terri Feldman Barr; Sustainable Workforce Models: Lessons from India on Training and Development of Unskilled Labor by Cynthia S. Cycyota & Wendy Volkland; Eco-Stacking: A Strategy for Succcess in Social and Business Agendas, by Neerja Raman; Part II: Social Ventures - Learning From, Evolving through, and Surviving Bumps in the Road; Banking on Women for Poverty Reduction: Portrait of Kenya Women's Finance Trust, by Faith Wambura Ngunjiri; Reducing Poverty through Strategy and Innovation in a Bangladesh Community Development Project, by James Spee; Part III: For For-Profit Organizations Reducing Poverty – “Doing Well and Doing Good”; Reducing Poverty through Successful Business: The Role of Social Capital, by Peter S. Heslam; Creating Market Size: Regional Strategies for Use in the Least Developed Areas of the World, by Scott A. Hipsher; Measuring the Contribution of Small Firms to Reducing Poverty and Increasing Social Inclusion in the UK, by Fergus Lyon & Marcello Bertotti; Reducing Poverty through Retail-Led Regeneration in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods: A British Perspective, by Paul Whysall.

    Best regards,

    Charles

    Charles Wankel
    http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~wankelc
    wankelc@stjohns.edu<mailto:wankelc@stjohns.edu>
    Add me on LinkedIn using that email address, Facebook too!



    From: Sharma, Aarti [mailto:asharma@coba.usf.edu]
    Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 3:01 AM
    To: ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Grameen USA

    Hi Colleagues,

    I am searching for a teaching case study on Grameen USA for my classes. I have not been able to locate one. If you have read it, please email me its reference details.

    Thank you,
    Aarti

    Aarti Sharma, Ph.D.
    Instructor of Strategic Management
    Department of Management & Organization
    College of Business Administration
    University of South Florida
    4202 E. Fowler Ave., BSN-3524
    Tampa, FL-33620-5500
    Tel: 813-974-4354
    Fax: 813- 974-1734
    Email: asharma@coba.usf.edu
    Web: http://www.coba.usf.edu/departments/management/faculty/sharma/index.html