Better Vision for the Poor

Bernard Garrette (), Aneel Karnani, Jordan Kassalow and Moses Lee
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Bernard Garrette: GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC - HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Aneel Karnani: Stephen M. Ross School of Business - University of Michigan [Ann Arbor] - University of Michigan System
Moses Lee: Center for Entrepreneurship - University of Michigan [Ann Arbor] - University of Michigan System

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Abstract: Several social enterprises are attempting to provide eyeglasses to the 500 million to 1 billion poor people in the world who need them. Some enterprises see the provision of trained optometrists as the key to solving the problem; others are focused on cost reduction; others still are focused on technological innovations. Why haven't any of these approaches succeeded on a large scale?

Keywords: Poverty; eyeglasses; essilor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Published in Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2011, Spring, pp.66-71

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