Bidco Looks to the African Markets for Growth

Author: Mayaka, Charles
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2006

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It was business as usual at the factory yard in March 2003, but not for Mr. Vimal Shah, the CEO of Bidco Oil Refineries in Thika, Kenya. Standing at the window of his expansive first floor office, Vimal hardly noticed the frenzied activities taking place down below, where truckload after truckload of products left for different destinations in Kenya. His mind was busy going over the two proposals sitting on his desk...

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Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A, B)

Authors: Ebrahim, Alnoor; Rangan, V. Kasturi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009

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This case examines Acumen's new projects in Kenya. The organization's investment committee and its chief investment officer, Brian Trelstad, must decide whether or not to fund two for-profit ventures.

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Financial Services for the Unbanked: Vodafone

Author: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2008

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Following a successful pilot program in Kenya, Vodafone is rolling out a service that allows customers to access cash via their mobile phones. Called M-PESA, the service allows customers to borrow, transfer and make payments using a mobile phone, transforming financial services by making transactions cheaper, faster and more secure...

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Small loans to women make big changes

Author: Davidson, Clare
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: BBC News
Publication Year: 2007

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"There was no hardware store," explains Mary Ellen Iskenderian, who first visited Ms Wafukho after becoming head of the non-profit organisation Women's World Banking in September 2006...

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How Safaricom Gives Voice to Africa

Author: Jopson, Barney
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Financial Times
Publication Year: 2007

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Globalization and the Environment in a Reformed UN: Charting a Sustainable Development Path

Author: Lamy, Pascal
Product Type: Speeches
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2007

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WTO Director-General, Pascal Lamy, in an address to the UNEP Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Nairobi, warned that a failure of the Doha negotiations “would strengthen the hand of all those who argue that economic growth should proceed unchecked” without regard for the environment. He stressed that “trade, and indeed the WTO, must be made to deliver sustainable development...”

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Helping Small-Scale Pyrethrum Farmers In Kenya

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Product Type: Cases
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2004

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SC Johnson formed a partnership to help Kenyan farmers improve their livelihoods by efficiently farming pyrethrum, a unique daisy that is the source for a naturally occurring insecticide.

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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

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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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KenCall - Can Nik Nesbitt's Venture Succeed in Kenya?

Author: Isenberg, Daniel J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009

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Nik Nesbitt is preparing a presentation of his Kenyan contact center startup to a group of angel investors visiting for the first time.

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Micro-franchise Against Malaria

Author: Flannery, Jessica
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2007

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The HealthStore Foundation combines microfinance with established franchising practices to address the simple problem of “getting the drugs to sick people when and where they are needed,” says founder and CEO Scott Hillstrom.

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