Business Solutions for the Global Poor

Business Solutions for the Global Poor brings together leaders from Harvard Business School who discuss theory with practices from the world's top corporations to show how businesses, NGOs and government organizations can use business solutions to add social value to the world's poorest communities.Based on research presented at The Harvard Business School's first-ever conference on business approaches to poverty alleviation, "Business Solutions for the Global Poor" brings together perspectives from leading academics and corporate, non-profit and public sector managers. The contributors draw on practical and dynamic how-to insights from leading BOP ventures from more than twenty countries world-wide. This important volume reflects poverty's multi-faceted nature and a broad range of actors multinational and local businesses, entrepreneurs, civil society organizations and governments that play a role in its alleviation.