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PDW Designing a Base of the Pyramid Enterprise: An Interactive Simulation Game

  • 1.  PDW Designing a Base of the Pyramid Enterprise: An Interactive Simulation Game

    Posted 08-03-2016 10:15
    I would like to welcome you to participate in the PDW on:

    "Designing a Base of the Pyramid Enterprise: An Interactive Simulation Game"
    Friday, August 05, 2016, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM 
    Anaheim Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon G

    Abstract: This PDW analyzes an important key question on,  how to design a Base of the Pyramid (BoP) enterprise that incorporates the realities of the poor and the expectations of key stakeholders? To answer this question, this PDW proposes to share and present a new and innovative simulation that aims to facilitate hearing the voices of the BoP and other key stakeholders in the design of BoP enterprises based on sustainable and mutual value creation. The PDW participants will form groups and play the competing and cooperating roles of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and the enterprise leadership team, shareholders, and societal stakeholders (rural/extractive/riparian community; NGOs; government; research institutions, and, if applicable, other key stakeholders). Based on their motives, expectations, strategies and capabilities, they will interact with each other to satisfy their needs and to create sustainable and mutual values to the whole Base of the Pyramid (BoP) system. In this simulation, sustainable and mutual values involve economic, social and environmental dimensions.  

    Keywords: Base (Bottom) of the Pyramid, Simulation, Enterprise Development, Corporate Sustainability, Stakeholders Management, Cross-Sector Partnership, Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Values, Cosmetics Industry.

    Coordinators:
    Farley S. Nobre, Federal U. of Parana 
    Stuart Hart, U. of Vermont 
    Ted London, U. of Michigan 
    Stefan Schaltegger, Leuphana U. Lüneburg 

    Contact: fsmnobre@gmail.com 

    Best regards,

    Farley Simon Nobre, Ph.D. 

    Visiting Fellow at School of Engineering, University of Birmingham UK (2016)

    Professor of Sustainability and Innovation at School of Management, UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil (2009-present)

    Permanent Affiliation:
    Federal University of Parana - UFPR
    School of Management - DAGA
    Av. Pref. Lothario Meissner, 632 / 2nd floor
    80210-170, Curitiba – PR, Brazil

    Mobile: +55 (41) 9699 1185 / Skype: farley.nobre


  • 2.  PDW Designing a Base of the Pyramid Enterprise: An Interactive Simulation Game

    Posted 08-03-2016 11:57
    Pyramids involving education don't usually have a downside, such as those with sliding scales according to GDP that provide for participating institutions maximum return on sustainability for alleviating the distress of marginalized groups: One example is international graduate medical education (internationalgme.org). Low income countries can train up to five medical educators and evaluators for the cost of one. This creates almost immediate sustainability for quality assurance within the Health profession education programs of the institution, which in turn improves the quality of graduate and hence care of the population which alleviates the burden of the international community.

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    On Aug 3, 2016, at 7:14 AM, Farley Nobre <fsmnobre@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

    I would like to welcome you to participate in the PDW on:

    "Designing a Base of the Pyramid Enterprise: An Interactive Simulation Game"
    Friday, August 05, 2016, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM 
    Anaheim Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon G

    Abstract: This PDW analyzes an important key question on,  how to design a Base of the Pyramid (BoP) enterprise that incorporates the realities of the poor and the expectations of key stakeholders? To answer this question, this PDW proposes to share and present a new and innovative simulation that aims to facilitate hearing the voices of the BoP and other key stakeholders in the design of BoP enterprises based on sustainable and mutual value creation. The PDW participants will form groups and play the competing and cooperating roles of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and the enterprise leadership team, shareholders, and societal stakeholders (rural/extractive/riparian community; NGOs; government; research institutions, and, if applicable, other key stakeholders). Based on their motives, expectations, strategies and capabilities, they will interact with each other to satisfy their needs and to create sustainable and mutual values to the whole Base of the Pyramid (BoP) system. In this simulation, sustainable and mutual values involve economic, social and environmental dimensions.  

    Keywords: Base (Bottom) of the Pyramid, Simulation, Enterprise Development, Corporate Sustainability, Stakeholders Management, Cross-Sector Partnership, Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Values, Cosmetics Industry.

    Coordinators:
    Farley S. Nobre, Federal U. of Parana 
    Stuart Hart, U. of Vermont 
    Ted London, U. of Michigan 
    Stefan Schaltegger, Leuphana U. Lüneburg 

    Contact: fsmnobre@gmail.com 

    Best regards,

    Farley Simon Nobre, Ph.D. 

    Visiting Fellow at School of Engineering, University of Birmingham UK (2016)

    Professor of Sustainability and Innovation at School of Management, UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil (2009-present)

    Permanent Affiliation:
    Federal University of Parana - UFPR
    School of Management - DAGA
    Av. Pref. Lothario Meissner, 632 / 2nd floor
    80210-170, Curitiba – PR, Brazil

    Mobile: +55 (41) 9699 1185 / Skype: farley.nobre