Leontief Prize Winners have Much to Share with the Philippines 299.0
Posted by m beduya on March 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Leontief Prize has been awarded by the Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE) at Tufts University since 2000 for: outstanding contributions to economic theory that address contemporary realities and support just and sustainable societies. The Leontief Prize winners say many things that are relevant to the Philippines. I first noticed that I had written [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with Alice Amsden, Amartya Sen, China, Dani Rodrik, Global Development and Environment Institute, herman daly, industrial policy, input-output analysis, John Kenneth Galbraith, Leontief Prize, Nicholas Stern, Richard Nelson, sustainability, SYNTHESiST, Tufts University
Green Innovation Opportunities from Biophysical Finiteness 282.0
Posted by m beduya on January 25, 2011 · 2 Comments
From 1996, when his book Beyond Growth was published, Herman Daly was considered the dean of “ecological economics.” I like two insights from the book that I take as “jolt[s] to conventional thinking”: finitude that I prefer to call finiteness and use as a more optimistic starting point for opportunities from innovation, and a clear [...]
Hapinoy – Mark Ruiz Retails Sari Sari Happiness to Filipinos 228.0
Posted by m beduya on June 28, 2010 · 9 Comments
“The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield,” begins Peter Drucker’s classic 1985 book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, quoting the French economist J.B. Say. Thus, Mark Ruiz and the Hapinoy/MicroVentures (MVI) team, all social entrepreneurs, are mining a rich vein for social enterprise [...]
Filed under Financing of Innovation, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Supply Chain Logistics and Transport · Tagged with equity, Hapinoy, Joseph Schumpeter, Mark Ruiz, microfinance, Peter Drucker, Philippines, productivity, sari sari, social enterprise, Social Innovation, supply chain, sustainability, triple bottom line
Books I am Reading and Pages I am Writing 199.0
Posted by m beduya on April 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
My cousin in New York, upon receiving her copy of Mabini by Majul, thanked me by email and asked. “Do you really read several books at once?” Indeed, after some thought, I realized it is a lot of work to support this blog . The picture at left shows the books in my big “To [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Miscellaneous · Tagged with change management, emerging markets, innovation, social enterprise, sustainability, Wang Yang Ming, Yoshida Shoin
Nestle Embeds Sustainability into Strategy through CSV – Creating Shared Value 193.0
Posted by m beduya on March 30, 2010 · 3 Comments
Michael Porter and Mark Kramer devised an anchor concept for social innovation. The buzz I heard in January that Nestle had moved on to Creating Shared Value or CSV from corporate social responsibility (CSR) was correct but I did not get the right definition then. Ms. Susan Steinhagen of the CSV team in Nestle, in [...]
Embedding Sustainability into New Enterprises 184.0
Posted by m beduya on March 10, 2010 · 6 Comments
New Zeitgest, tools and metrics are making CSV for enterprise the new norm Businesses are starting to embed sustainability into their strategy rather than just do it as a separate project under corporate social responsibility (CSR). They are starting to do this because it is beginning to make business sense. The Sagip Pasig Movement (SPM) [...]
Filed under Changes in Environment and Need for Sustainability, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Energy Water and Environment, Financing of Innovation, News and Stories, Rapid Prototyping - Incubators, Proof-of-Concept, Accelerators, Social Enterprise and Innovations, Social Innovation · Tagged with adaptive research, creating shared value, intensive learning, productivity, Sagip Pasig Movement, social enterprise, Social Innovation, sustainability, triple bottom line
Embedding Sustainability into Corporate Strategy 159.0
Posted by m beduya on January 17, 2010 · 2 Comments
I have two tales from the grapevine. What used to be at the fringe seems to be moving to the mainstream. Regular corporations may slowly be morphing to social enterprise because it is beginning to make business sense. The First Tale. A new concept is being tried out by some multinationals to replace CSR or [...]
I Joined VoiceOver 2015 95.0
Posted by m beduya on August 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
On August 15, I joined VoiceOver2015, a forum on politics hosted by the Dutch NCDO (National Committee for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development). I joined as one with interests in business and finance, education, the environment and democratization. After this introduction, I will only post relevant entries from VoiceOver2015 in SYNTHESiST.
Filed under Miscellaneous, News and Stories, Social Innovation · Tagged with Asian Institute of Management, sustainability, VoiceOver2015
