Inclusive Business Model
Study how profitable businesses serve base-of-pyramid communities across healthcare, education, microfinance, energy, waste, and agriculture, and how their impact is measured.
Course Overview
This course examines business models that include the poor as customers, producers, and employees while remaining commercially viable. You will study the BOP debate, inclusive healthcare and education, microfinance and agricultural extension, the rural BPO model, inclusive supply chains and energy access, informal labour and waste management, farmer producer companies and social business, and impact investment and measurement.
What You'll Learn
- Introduction to Inclusive Business Model
- Inclusive Healthcare and Education
- Microfinance and Agricultural Extension Services
- RuralShore and the Rural BPO Model
- Inclusive Supply Chain and Providing Energy Access to the Poor
- Improving Conditions of Informal Labourers and Managing Waste
- The Farmer Producer Company and Creating Social Business
- Impact Investment and Measurement of Impact; Intersection of Sustainability and Inclusivity
Course Content
Foundations of Inclusive Business Models and the BOP Debate
Maps India's growth-inequality paradox, defines the inclusive business model and its three viability criteria, and stages the Prahalad vs. Karnani debate over profitably serving the poor.
Foundations of Inclusive Business Models Assessment
Tests India's growth-inequality paradox, the IBM definition and criteria, the malaria vs. Harry Potter supply chain contrast, Yunus, the BOP thesis, Diageo, and the Karnani critique.
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