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Current Projects
Acurio Restaurantes & ANPE, Peru - January 2012
TEM Lab is partnering with Acurio Restaurantes and ANPE (La Asociación Nacional de Productores Ecológicos del Perú) to develop marketing strategies for the farmers of ANPE so that they can improve their sales, develop direct client relationships with restaurants, and create a market for specialty native produce. ANPE is an organization of over 12,000 producers from 22 regions of Peru that decided to unite efforts and initiatives around the national development of agroecology. Since the ANPE farmers are focused on sustainability and improving the farmers' social impact, assisting the ANPE farmers will promote many social enterprises in the supply chain and also increase the number of restaurants that purchase from the social enterprise farmers as opposed to the middlemen, whom are normally not socially conscious. Acurio Restaurantes is led by the internationally famous chef Gaston Acurio and is a pioneer in developing socially responsible supply chains and using unique ingredients from small farmers. This project is part of an effort to implement social enterprise practices industry-wide.
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Hovde Foundation, Mexico City - January 2012
The Hovde Foundation is a Washington, D.C. based NGO whose mission is to help abused and neglected children around the world by providing them with consistent shelter, food, and general necessities usually provided by family members. The Thunderbird team will focus on identifying potential businesses that the Hovde Foundation could start, or buy, and operate as a social enterprise with the profits being used to support the operations of the Hovde House in Mexico City. The target business should not only be profitable, but provide skill-building employment for youth living in the Hovde House. Thus this TEM Lab team will be performing deep financial and social evaluations of potential businesses.
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2011 Projects
PALMS, Ghana - July 2011
Thunderbird Consultants are working on the ground in Ghana with Christian Volunteer Service International (CVSI) through their Productive Agricultural Linkages and Marketing Systems (P.A.L.M.S.) program to successfully establish an organizational system capable of producing and distributing the moringa plant for the social and economic benefit of the local community.
Kopernik, Indonesia - July 2011
Kopernik is an online marketplace of innovative, life-changing technology designed for the developing world. Kopernik’s mission is to advance the adoption of appropriate and affordable technology, increase socio-economic productivity and thereby accelerate the progress of sustainable development. The TEM Lab Team is in the field to assess the social impact of the technologies that are being distributed to women and their communities in Cepu, East Java, Indonesia, and identify economic opportunities that have resulted from the use of cooking stoves and water purifiers.
Smallsolutions, Uganda - March 2011
smallsolutions is a start-up social enterprise organization that disseminates energy technologies such as solar lamps and energy efficient stoves to energy impoverished communities at the grass roots level in Africa. The TEM Lab team created a program manual that will guide the organization's scale-up and made recommendations to optimize organization structure.
Solar Sister, Uganda - March 2011
Solar Sister is currently operating a pilot project in Uganda to build a network of Solar Sister entrepreneurs, women who sell solar lamps to their communities. The TEM Lab team created marketing training material and made recommendations to streamline the organization's growth.
GlobalResolve, Ghana - May 2011
GlobalResolve is a social entrepreneurship group within the new Technology Entrepreneurship and Management program of the Arizona State University (ASU) College of Technology and Innovation. Students and faculty at ASU and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) developed gelled ethanol and efficient cookstove technology, built the stoves and the pilot value chain, while the Thunderbird students will be responsible for developing strategies for large scale production and utilization of gel ethanol in households and institutions in Ghana.
Digital Divide Data, Cambodia - February 2011
The TEM Lab Cambodia team made recommendations to DDD to expand their market presence and service capacity in Cambodia, targeting key growth industries such as healthcare and banking.
Inter-American Development Bank (IBD) and the Guatemalan Ministry of Economics and Commerce (MINECO), Guatemala City, Guatemala - January 2011
The Thunderbird Consulting Team developed a comprehensive training manual and trained trainers, helping MINECO develop the institutional capacity to deliver business development services for exporters - one pillar of a large IDB loan to Guatemala.
Past Projects
Lincoln Center, Tirana, Albania - July 2010
The Thunderbird Consulting Team assisted the Abraham Lincoln Foundation in developing a geographic and educational offerings expansion plan for the Lincoln Center while advising the organization on a potential conversion into a for-profit, multi-national, educational services company.
Mibanco, Lima, Peru 2 - May 2010
The second TEM Lab team conducted a feasibility study of how Thunderbird MBA students can most effectively deliver a business consulting/mentoring/coaching program to women micro-entrepreneurs in Peru.
Yasaka Saigon Nhatrang, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam - May 2010
The Yasaka team will be developing a tourism marketing strategy for the paradisiacal province of Khanh Hoa. Khanh Hoa will open their airport to international flights in 2011 and five- and six-star resorts are shooting up like weeds.
Mibanco, Lima, Peru - March 2010
Mibanco is the largest micro-finance institution (MFI) in Peru and has pioneered a successful training program that it has applied in Peru for several years. Peru is one of only two countries in the world where women are more likely to start a business than men.
Sharp Ideas, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam - February 2010
Sharp Ideas is a Vietnamese marketing services company in Ho Chi Minh City. Its work combines world-class marketing skills and services with invaluable local knowledge and connections to the Vietnamese market.
K-Biz Consulting, Nha Trang, Vietnam - January 2010
K-Biz is the first consultancy of its kind in Vietnam’s Khanh Hoa province to offer marketing, strategy, legal and general business advice to the rapidly growing small to medium-sized business community in Nha Trang.
RD Tech, Kigali, Rwanda - January 2010
Rwanda Dimension Technology (RD Tech), a refurbished computer retailer in Rwanda with partner operations in Burundi and Congo, purchases refurbished desktops from vendors in the US, ships them to Rwanda, and sells them to schools, businesses, individuals, and government customers.
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