culture a constraint or freedom? Name: Rodrigo‚ Lianne Lu Course & Year: BS-IE 1 Schedule: MWF 12:30 – 1:30 pm According to Webster’s New World Encyclopedia‚ culture is the way of life of a particular society or group of people‚ including patterns of thought‚ beliefs‚ behavior‚ customs‚ traditions‚ rituals‚ dress‚ and language‚ as well as art‚ music‚ and literature. Going back to the question‚ is culture a constraint or freedom? Well‚ for me‚ it’s both. It’s a constraint and at the
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Perry-Rivers Seminar - Issues in Management: Social Entrepreneurship‚ Spring 2015 January 18‚ 2015 Topic Based Questions: 1) What is entrepreneurship? a. A movement with the goal to effect positive social change. 2) Define social entrepreneurship based on your reading. Which of the definitions provided do you believe is ideal or the most encompassing? a. Social entrepreneurship based on my reading are the people who want to go into business for themselves with the goal that society will benefit
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development theory in his book- ‘Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity ’s Most Pressing Needs’. It originally picked massive traction because of Prof Yunus’ massively impressive reputation as the Godfather of Microfinance. In this book he outlines a model of business that builds from his experience creating the Grameen Foundation and a series of related ventures. The striking point of his described work is that it employs business sector principles of organization and
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Saleh Al-Turki‚ the chairman of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry‚ and Omar Shaban‚ director of operations at Cisco NetVersity to look at the ways in which business can be modeled in order to help the poor. Muhammad Yunus related the story behind Grameen Bank and shared his concept of “social business.” Moderated by social researcher Laurent Marbacher‚ the panel also explored the idea of what human beings are capable of doing for local development‚ as well as how systems can enhance these
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Range Planning 43 (2010) 291e307 http://www.elsevier.com/locate/lrp Business Models: Creating New Markets and Societal Wealth James D. Thompson and Ian C. MacMillan This thought piece proposes a framework for addressing the challenges of poverty and human suffering so widespread around the world. Based on the WSWP action research program‚ we suggest that visionary businesses can play a role in creating new business models that open up new markets‚ and simultaneously attend to societal
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Bottleneck’s: Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints Wayne May 28‚ 2013 OPS/571 Introduction “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link” (Goldratt‚ 1984). Goldratt’s theory means organizations and processes are vulnerable because the weakest part or person can damage‚ break‚ or constrain them while affecting the outcome. In operations management‚ the solution is to pull materials through the system rather than push them into the system. By using the drum-buffer-rope methodology‚ components
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Mouhoub Department of Computer Science University of Regina CS 820 1 7. Constraint-Based Reasoning 7. Constraint-Based Reasoning 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Systematic Search for CSPs 7.3 Constraint Propagation 7.4 Heuristics for CSPs 7.5 Iterative (non systematic) Algorithms for CSPs 7.6 Tree-structured CSPs 7.7 Constraint-Based Systems CS 820 2 7.1 Introduction 7.1 Introduction “Constraint programming represents one of the closest approaches computer science has yet made
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Review reading from Bridge International class: "Disruptive Innovation for Social Change" Latitude Responsable Danone Communities - Projet Grameen Danone URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pUd7eCf7Sg Note: Please watch this short (8-minute) video as part of class preparation. 1. Evaluate the Grameen Danone business model. What are its attractive features? What are its weaknesses? 2. Prof. Yunus’s Social Business Model is explained on pages 1 and 2 of the case. What is your evaluation
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Muhammad Yunus: Lifting People Worldwide out of Poverty: Knowledge@Wharton (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2243) Muhammad Yunus: Lifting People Worldwide out of Poverty Published : May 27‚ 2009 in Knowledge@Wharton What began with a loan of $27 to 42 women in a small village 33 years ago has grown into a global microcredit movement that has changed the lives of millions of poor people around the world. Muhammad Yunus‚ founder and managing director of Bangladesh’s
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health of children with Grameen Foods. With the help of Grameen Group’s establishment‚ he was turned towards Danone‚ where he continued his venture of social entrepreneurship. The partnership between Grameen and Danone was crucial to the organization that was built. Just as Homeless World Cup and Nike partnered to give each other benefits and social satisfaction‚ it created a win/win by an exchange of capabilities and information sharing. Grameen knew how to extend outwards to a vast majority of
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