As western markets stagnate, companies are looking to the emerging world forgrowth, and have begun to experiment with offerings that target the four billion microconsumersat the base of the pyramid. To successfully engage these emergingconsumers, firms must innovate around their product...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to set out the ways in which pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim embedded a strengths-based approach to the assessment and development of field-based staff during a period of structural and culture change. It provides an overview of how...

As an innovative financial mechanism to explore additional funds for social development programs in developing countries, debt swaps for development, including debt-for-education swaps, became popular between the 1980s and 2000s. Their popularity, however, seems to have diminished since the...