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Grameen Shakti has mastered the art of rural business. Sixteen years ago, the Bangladesh-based renewable energy company was a pioneer in an unexplored market.
In 2008, the authors of this article developed a “sector strategy” for the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) at Santa Clara University with the purpose of facilitating collaborative learning
Social enterprises are providing affordable energy and environmentally sustainable energy to a small but growing percentage of the four billion people living on less than $2,000/year.
This essay examines possible routes to achieving significant health improvements in the underserved populations of developing countries.
This article addresses the specific role of programs that attempt to help social ventures scale.
Making a difference in the pursuit of a more sustainable world increasingly requires the ability to contend successfully with the wicked problem that is sustainability, and this shift needs to ha
John Houghton (2011), the past chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scientific assessment committee, contends that global climate change is now “the greatest problem the
Do our actions model a genuine commitment to global sustainability? Or do they belie that spoken commitment?
This article reviews the problematic surrounding the concept of future generations, which is intertwined with questions concerning intergenerational justice, weak sustainability, non-existence, n
This paper describes recent concerns with management education and offers the Economy of Communion (EoC) Model as an example that maybe used in management education programs to illustrate a spiri
The Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought at the University of St.
Spirit Airlines, known for its low airfare and its controversial promotions, ran a June 2010 web promotion that instructed viewers to “Check Out the Oil on Our Beaches.” The promotion ran only a
Charles German was recently elected as Chair of the Homelessness Task Force for Kansas City. Kansas City currently had no strategy for dealing with the homeless.
Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education (CJBE) was founded in 1998 with the mission of enhancing the distinctiveness of Jesuit business schools and related programs through an ongoing exchange of
This paper begins with an explanation of the Ignatian Pedagogical Model and its relationship to Service Learning (SL).
Business engagement with impoverished consumers as a distinct strategy option was rarely considered until recently, as the impoverished market segment was typically evaluated as having little to contr
The discussion at this year’s conference seems to be premised on the thought that business has become globalized but business education—and specifically business education at Jesuit institutions—has n
The so-called “ethics crisis” in the United States and around the globe is so obvious that WorldCom, Enron, Arthur Andersen, and HealthSouth have become household names.