Better Vision for the Poor

Bernard Garrette (1) , Aneel Karnani (2) , Jordan Kassalow , Moses Lee (3)

1 GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC
2 Stephen M. Ross School of Business
3 Center for Entrepreneurship

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

Domains: Strategy and business policy

Bernard Garrette, Aneel Karnani, Jordan Kassalow, Moses Lee. Better Vision for the Poor. Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2011, Spring, pp.66-71. ⟨hal-00575625⟩