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How Manu Chandaria Mastered the African Market
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Interviews
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2013
In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton conducted by Ivorian entrepreneur and author Eric Kacou, Kenyan business tycoon Manu Chandaria reveals some of his secrets to business success in Africa. Chandaria discusses how other businesses and entrepreneurs can follow his lead and pursue socially responsible practices that benefit the communities in which they work.
EcoPost: Financing a Green Startup in Africa
Authors: Sorensen, Jesper; Kennedy, Michael; Jorasch, Gina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, EcoPost manufactures construction posts out of the thousands of tons of plastic waste produced daily by the city. However, they face many obstacles overcoming skepticism from investors, largely because of their relatively poor financial record keeping...
Mobius Motors: Building an African Car
Authors: Sorensen, Jesper; Kennedy, Michael; Jorasch, Gina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Mobius Motors manufactures and sells low-cost cars in the Kenyan market. However, Mobius's fleet of vehicle is still currently very small, and the company faces many strategic challenges on both the demand and the supply side of the business.
Competing by Saving Lives: How Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies Create Shared Value in Global Health
Authors: Peterson, Kyle; Kim, Samuel; Rehrig, Matthew; Stamp, Mike
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: FSG
Publication Year: 2012
This report highlights how pharmaceutical and medical device companies are creating shared value in global health by enhancing their competitiveness while simultaneously addressing the global burden of disease...
Value Chain Development: Care Kenya's Challenge to Make Markets Work for the Poor (A, B)
Author: McKague, Kevin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
These two cases examine how CARE, a non-profit international development organization, pursues a market-based approach to meeting its poverty-reduction mission in Kenya.
How to Establish and Manage a Social Business at the Bottom of the Pyramid: The Case of OSRAM in Africa
Author: von Nell, Pia Sophie
Product Type: Cases
Source: WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management
Publication Year: 2011
Since September 2008 OSRAM runs a social business following the triple bottom line, which means that it has to be socially, environmentally and financially sustainable. The project, which provides light to regions that do not have power supply systems, was initiated at the Lake Victoria in Kenya. Using the latest technology and a totally new business model OSRAM is able to satisfy the needs of the poor, people who live at the bottom of the pyramid.
Vodafone M-PESA (A): Turning a Corporate Social Responsibility Innovation into a Mainstream Business Opportunity
Authors: Sadoulet, Loïc; Furdelle, Olivier
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2011
Vodafone, a world leader in mobile telecommunications, in partnership with Safaricom, the leading Kenyan mobile operator, launches a service that allows registered users to transfer money from their mobile phones to other mobile phone users.
One Acre Fund: Outgrowing the Board
Authors: Sherman, Eliot; Donnelly, Anne Cohn
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2011
A young international nonprofit social enterprise governed by friends of the founder grows rapidly and faces increasing demands...
Jamii Bora and Kaputei Town: Affordable and Sustainable Housing for Urban Slumdwellers
Author: Christensen, Lisa Jones
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2009
In late 1999, Ingrid Munro founded a microloan organization in Nairobi, Kenya with 50 women who had previously been desperate street beggars. The organization, “Jamii Bora” (which means “good families” in Kiswahili), is based on the premise that very poor people can lift themselves from poverty through saving and business development.
Diageo and East African Breweries Ltd.: Tapping New Markets for Social Good
Authors: Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Bird, Matthew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
For the second time in six months, the Kenyan Finance Ministry had raised excise taxes on alcoholic beverages in an effort to plug the country's budget deficit; the bill was awaiting the President's signature...
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