Business solutions for the global poor
Subtitle: creating social and economic value
By: [edited by] V. Kasturi Rangan ... [et al.] ; foreword by C.K. Prahalad.
Contributors: Rangan, V. Kasturi.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Jossey-Bass business & management series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2007
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9780787982164
Subjects: Social responsibility of business -- Congresses; Poor -- Congresses; International business enterprises -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses; Social responsibility of business -- Developing countries -- Congresses; Poor -- Developing countries -- Congresses; International business enterprises -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Developing countries -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers presented at A Conference on Global Poverty: Business Solutions and Approaches held at Harvard University, on Dec. 1-3, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-415) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: PT. 1. JUST WHO ARE THE POOR?; title: 1. Microcredit, segmentation, and poverty alleviation strategy for women : who are the customers? / Fauzia Erfan Ahmed; title: 2. Understanding consumers and retailers at the base of the pyramid in Latin America / Guillermo D'Andrea, Gustavo Herrero; title: 3. Marketing programs to reach India's underserved / Kunal Sinha ... [et al.]; title: PT. 2. MEETING THE BASIC NEEDS OF THE POOR; title: 4. Brcko and the Arizona market / Bruce R. Scott; title: 5. Health services for the poor in developing countries : private vs. public vs. private and public / David E. Bloom, Tarun Khanna; title: 6. Fighting AIDS, fighting poverty : customer-centric marketing in the generic antiretroviral business / Rohit Deshpandé, Zoë Chance; title: 7. Meeting unmet needs at the base of the pyramid : mobile health care for India's poor / Pablo Sánchez, Miguel A. Rodríguez, Joan E. Ricart; title: 8. Energizing the base of the pyramid : scaling up successful business models to achieve universal electrification / David J. Jhirad, Annie Woollam; title: 9. Utilities and the poor : a story from Colombia / Carlos Rufín, Luis Fernando Arboleda; title: 10. Bringing natural gas service to poor areas : the case of Buenos Aires's Moreno District / Marcelo Paladino, Lisandro Blas; title: PT. 3. BUILDING THE BOP VALUE CHAIN; title: 11. Multiahorro : barrio store / Wilson A. Jácome, Luis E. Loría, Luis Reyes Portocarrero; title: 12. Photography and the low-income classes in Brazil : a case study of Kodak / Melchior Dikkers, Paulo Cesar Motta; title: 13. The complex business of serving the poor : insights from Unilever's Project Shakti in India / V. Kasturi Rangan, Dalip Sehgal, Rohithari Rajan; title: 14. Patrimonio hoy : a groundbreaking corporate program to alleviate Mexico's housing crisis / Arthur I. Segel, Nadeem Meghji, Regina García-Cuéllar; title: 15. Creating strong businesses by developing and leveraging the productive capacity of the poor / Kapil Marwaha ... [et al.]; title: ITC's e-Choupal : a platform strategy for rural transformation / Ravi Anupindi, S. Sivakumar; title: 17. Nestlé's milk district model : economic development for a value-added food chain and improved nutrition / Ray A. Goldberg, Kerry Herman; title: PT. 4. BUSINESS AND LEADERSHIP MODELS; title: 18. Building new business value chains with low-income sectors in Latin America / James E. Austin ... [et al.]; title: 19. Viable business models to serve low-income customers : lessons from the Philippines / Gerardo C. Ablaza Jr. ... [et al.]; title: 20. When giants discover the disadvantaged : managerial challenges and success factors in building capacity to served underserved markets / Rosabeth Moss Kanter; title: PT. 5. THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY; title: 21. The role of financial institutions in revitalizing low-income neighborhoods / Carolyn Welch, Ann Scoffier; title: 22. Houses for the poor and new business for banks : creating a market for affordable housing / Doug Guthrie, Michael McQuarrie; title: 23. The South African financial sector charter : a supplementary market framework to achieve affirmative action / R.S. Tucker, Thomas S. Mondschean, Bruce R. Scott; title: 24. How social entrepreneurs enable human, social, and economic development / Christian Seelos, Johanna Mair; title: 25. Hybrid value chains : social innovations and development of the small farmer irrigation market in Mexico / Valeria Budinich, Kimberly Manno Reott, Stéphanie Schmidt; title: 26. Entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation in South Africa / Frederick Ahwireng-Obeng, Mthuli Ncube; title: 27. A gentler capitalism : black business leadership in the new South Africa / Linda A. Hill, Maria Farkas; title: PT. 6. MEASURING SUCCESS; title: 28. Microfinance : business, profitability, and creation of social value / Michael Chu; title: 29. Alleviating global poverty through microfinance : factors and measures of financial, economic, and social performance / Marc J. Epstein, Christopher A. Crane; title: 30. Strong double-bottom-line banking / David J. Porteous; title: 31. H&R Block's refund anticipation loans : perilous profits at the bottom of the pyramid? / David T. Rose, Daniel Schneider, Peter Tufano; title: 32. When is doing business with the poor good for the poor? : a household and national income accounting approach / Herman B. Leonard.