Scaling up Business Solutions to Social Problems : A Practical Guide for Social and Corporate Entrepreneurs

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Cover; Table of Contents; List of figures, tables and illustrations; Forewords; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations and acronyms; About the authors; Introduction; Part 1: Solutions that work; 1 Faces of poverty; A rural Indian family; An urban family in Brazil; A rural Kenyan family; The common predicaments of the BoP around the globe; 2 Social entrepreneurs and ""system change"" strategies; Satyan - making goods and services accessible to rural communities; André - mediating land title disputes; Ron - fighting for the intellectual property of small farmers

3 Why focus on market-based social innovations?Scalability; Empowerment; 4 Cooking; First Energy; Envirofit; Toyola; Obstacles to scale and replication; 5 Lighting; SELCO - or the power of patient local value chains; Grameen Shakti - creating an entire industry; Obstacles to scale and replication of SHS; Solar lanterns - a solution for less dense environments; Between SHS and lanterns - plug and play products; Key success factors of individual solutions - quality, brands and distribution networks; Mini-utility solutions - the attractiveness of collective solutions

Mini-utility solutions - obstacles to scale and replication6 Housing; Home improvements - Cemex; Home improvements - Viste Tu Casa; New homes - Housing for All; Obstacles to scale and replication; 7 Drinking water; Mini water treatment plants - Sarvajal and Naandi; What architecture is needed to move from small networks of kiosk operators to a thriving kiosk industry?; Decentralized water networks - Balibago; How to scale up a Balibago; 8 Financial services; The hidden power of the electric utility bill - Codensa; The conspicuous magic of cell phones - M-PESA; The ubiquitous chip card - FINO

Even banks can provide banking services! - BradescoObstacles to scale and replication; 9 Boosting profitability of small farmers and micro-entrepreneurs; Amul - mobilizing three million Indian farmers; eChoupal - a rural supply chain; Light Years IP and Ethiopian coffee growers; 10 When markets fail; The limitations of market-based approaches; Regulation needed!; And what about the planet?; Part 2: Obstacles to scale; Introduction to Part 2 - The path to scale; 11 Social entrepreneurs - size or influence?; Size; Influence; Serial entrepreneurship; Which path to choose?

12 Corporations - the incumbent dilemmaThe ivy and the tree; Motivations; Multinationals: unaware, unable or unwilling?; Six lessons learned from pioneers; 13 Bridging the business-citizen sector divide through hybrid value chains; Why the innovations and core assets of social entrepreneurs and CSOs are relevant to mainstream businesses; Examples of a new type of business/social alliance; What are hybrid value chains?; Lessons learned in building HVCs; What is needed for HVCs to reach scale and full global market potential?; 14 Marketing - from needs to wants

Focus on wants of BoP families, not their needs

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