Making Ecopreneurs
Developing Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Imprint: Gower
Illustrations: Includes c. 31 black & white illustrations
Published: July 2010
Format: 244 x 172 mm
Extent: 276 pages
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 978-0-566-08875-9
Price : £60.00 » Online: £54.00
BL Reference: 658.4’083
LoC Control No: 2010001401
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Edition: Second Edition
Edited by Michael Schaper, Adjunct Professor, Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia
Series : Corporate Social Responsibility
The first edition of this book looked at the emergence of ‘ecopreneurs’ – environmental entrepreneurs gaining competitive advantage for their firms through understanding and utilising green issues. These green entrepreneurs have led the way in enabling market forces to generate economic growth whilst protecting the environment and encouraging sustainability.
Author: Support
“Have Breakfast… or… Be Breakfast!”
“Have Breakfast… or… Be Breakfast!”
By Y. L. R. MOORTHI
[Management Views from IIMB is an exclusive column written every two weeks for india.wsj.com by faculty members of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.]
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).
This car will cost you just 4 paisa per km!
AZubin Irani – awarded for environmental leadership
Zubin Irani, Managing Director of Carrier Airconditioning & Refrigeration Ltd., received an award, for environmental leadership.
Following was a news article in India Journal of Dec. 24, 2009:
“Carrier India Wins Award
Carrier Airconditioning & Refrigeration Ltd. has received India’s National Energy Conservation Award in two categories, “Consumer Goods Manufacturing” and “Manufacturers of Bureau of Energy Efficiency Star Labelled Appliances” in the energy sector. Carrier India is a subsidiary of Farmington, Conn.-based Carrier Corp., a unit of United Technologies Corp. “We are truly honored that Carrier’s environmental leadership is being recognized with such prestigious awards,” said Zubin Irani, managing director Carrier India. He received the award from India’s minister of Power Sushilkumar Shinde at a ceremony, Dec. 14. ”
Courtesy : Maneck Bhujwala
A Great Service By Khushroo Poacha
If you have not seen this before, or read about this truly good man, I recommend this article to you.
There are many good Parsis who lots of good work and do not take money. Post it on your alias.
Courtesy : Aspi Maneckjee / Hushang Vakil
| You just can’t miss this article…This was the long awaited appreciation that this man deserves and this article has already created wonders, we have had 275 registrations in just 1 day (yesterday) and 150 registered in just few hours today…you may read it online too – http://getahead. rediff.com/ report/2009/ oct/20/this- man-saves- lives-one- click-at- a-time.htm … |
How she makes wealth from waste
Experiments with fruit
Dharmendra Jore, Hindustan Times
Wardha, October 08, 2009
First Published: 01:50 IST(8/10/2009)
Last Updated: 01:52 IST(8/10/2009)
Dhyaneshwar Dhage (47) had decided to commit suicide in June 1993.
Of the 500-plus acres of land his family had once owned in Giroli village in Wardha, 759 km north-east of Mumbai, only 5 acres remained.
As crop after crop failed, the family had been forced to sell the ancestral holdings one piece at a time.
And what with the cost of everything, including farm inputs, going up, Dhage could no longer support his wife and three sons on what remained.
To top it all, his father had just died, and he had inherited that persistent Vidarbha heirloom: A large loan, compounded by years of exorbitant interest.
“I thought to myself: ‘It’s time to just end it all. There’s no way out of this’,” says Dhage, still moved to tears by the memory of that decision.
Then, he says, he thought of his wife, then just 26 years old, and his three little boys.
And Dhage decided to try and solve the problem, rather than run from it.
With only Rs 15,000/-, she became an entrepreneur
At 17, when most girls of her age were set to go to college for higher studies, she got married.
Business Mind
Business Mind
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Laloo Prasad Yadav talks to his son to get married
Laloo : I want you to marry a girl of my choice
Son : “I want to choose my own bride”.
Laloo : “But the girl is Ambani’s daughter.”
Son : “Well, in that case…. Yes”
Next Laloo approaches Mukesh Ambani
Laloo : “I have a husband for your daughter.”
Ambani : “But I dont want to marry my daughter.”
Laloo : “But this young man is a vice-president of the World Bank.”
Ambani : “Ah, in that case…. Yes”
Finally Laloo goes to see the president of the World Bank.
Laloo : “I have a young man to be recommended as a vice-president.”
President :”But I already have more vice-presidents than I need.”
Laloo : “But this young man is Ambani’s son-in-law.”
President : “Ah, in that case…. Yes.”
Now this is how business is done!!
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