IESE Business School “A new paradigm for the “Bottom of the Pyramid”: corporate – entrepreneurship partnerships for customer, market and portfolio development” Project

Theme: “Social Entrepreneurs as Competitors and Partners in Global Markets”

Practicioners Workshop, Monday 19 September 2005, Barcelona
Anselmo Rubiralta Center for Globalization and Strategy, 11am - 5.30pm

All EABIS members are warmly invited to participate in the first workshop to explore strategic insights from IESE’s research project as part of the EABIS corporate funded project led by IESE Business School.

The Focus of the Day

• Discuss the strategic opportunities and challenges for corporations of emerging socio-economic developments in poor countries
• How to operationalize the notion of sustainable development to inform corporate action
• Look at innovative business models of entrepreneurs that create new customers, markets and offerings in collaboration with corporations
• Learn how to discover and analyze such models
• Identify elements that are of relevance in formulating business strategies at the BOP: resources, capabilities and governance structures
• Discuss with EABIS’ corporate members core areas of interest to inform IESE’s future research direction and focus

The Project
The research project is an extension of IESE’s earlier studies on social entrepreneurship in developing countries and the role these entrepreneurs play in contributing to sustainable socio-economic development. In the course of this research IESE have found new collaborative models of social entrepreneurs with the private sector that were able to successfully combine both social and economic value creation. Some of these models have reached scales that generate significant shareholder returns as well as social returns for local communities and whole countries.

Who Should Attend?

All EABIS corporate members interested in innovative business models in emerging markets and how to think strategically about the BOP

Corporate and academic EABIS members interested in BOP and social entrepreneurship to share insights and contribute to the collective learning experience

Representatives of EABIS member organisations interested in or involved in development issues

How Do I Register?
There will be no charge for attendance to EABIS members. To register and for more detailed information please follow this link: click here

As the number of participants for this meeting is limited, please respond as soon as possible. The deadline for registration is 1 September 2005, if you want to be assured of a place.

For more information on this project contact Christian Seelos at IESE (CSeelos@iese.edu) or visit the IESE project's sub-community (you need to be subscribed to this sub-community to be able to view further details. Click here to register for this sub-community).

The European Science Foundation is pleased to announce a Call for Proposals for new Scientific Programmes.

An ESF Scientific Programme is a networking activity bringing together nationally funded research activities for four to five years, to address a major scientific issue or a science-driven topic of research infrastructure, at the European level.

The call includes Social Sciences and Humanities.

For more information see: click here

The deadline for receipt of proposals is 4 November 2005

For those of you who are interested in sustainability/CSR reporting, the KPMG International Survey of Corporate Responsibility Reporting 2005 can be downloaded from the following website: http://www.wimm.nl/publicatiesUK/publicationLijst.asp Like in the case of the previous surveys (in 1999 and 2002), the research was carried out by KPMG with the University of Amsterdam Business School.
The report contains sections on trends in sustainability/CSR reporting by the Fortune global 250 and by the top 100 companies in 16 countries, and on the contents of the reports (governance, stakeholder engagement, social, economic and environmental issues), assurance and trends in particular sectors and regions.
Journal articles on the study are forthcoming (for papers on the previous ones see references and abstracts further down on the same webpage).

Kind regards,
Ans Kolk

Prof.dr. Ans Kolk
University of Amsterdam
Business School
The Netherlands
www.fee.uva.nl/pp/akolk
www.agbs.nl