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The Partnership Co-design Toolkit offers a disciplined approach to co-designing business models for resilient value chain partnerships. It builds upon MIT D-Lab learnings from designing and testing the P-ACT Conversation tool and SEED’s experience with their Entreprise toolkit; as well as an in-depth literature review of existing partnership design and facilitation tools.

This guide aims to stimulate thinking and exchange within companies and external partners about what business models for more decent jobs should look like. It demonstrates how fundamental changes can be made to improve job security, equality, health and wellbeing without impacting business competitiveness, growth and profitability. It also provides practical case studies and a framework for both evaluating the quality of jobs and also enhancing them.

This guide supports impact-driven investors in developing an investment strategy that accomplishes real-world change. The authors have reviewed existing research and synthesized the available evidence to offer practical recommendations on how to maximize impact. The guide is focused on the impact of the investor herself, as opposed to the impact investee companies create.

The global spread of Covid-19 has made being an entrepreneur more challenging than ever. Although it seems like a crisis unlike any other, the pandemic has many lessons to offer entrepreneurs working with underserved communities in low income markets. The Manual to Land by MIT D-Lab aims to help entrepreneurs to better navigate crisis leadership while focusing on finances, the team or the customer side. 

This guide shows how large companies can collaborate with other actors to build business ecosystems that enable small and medium sized companies (SMEs) to thrive. Based on concrete examples, it establishes elements of “Market Building Collaboration” and points out an agenda for action for large companies, the public sector and SME support institutions.

The Women’s Empowerment Principles Gender Gap Analysis Tool (WEPs Tool) is a business-driven tool designed to help companies from around the world assess gender equality performance across the workplace, marketplace, and community.

Este documento presenta una guía bajo la experiencia del Consejo Empresarial Mundial para el Desarrollo Sostenible para aquellas empresas que buscan hacer negocio con los pobres. Esto lo hace a través de los aprendizajes de 12 empresas internacionales y una serie de preguntar para orientar el trabajo de las empresas.

Esta publicación desarrolla una guía para la gestión de emprendimientos sociales, abarcando temas de liderazgo, estrategia, cultura organizacional, recursos humanos, finanzas, estructura, relación con organismos gubernamentales y medición de impacto.