London A Finalist For Case Competition
A business case written by WDI’s Ted London and two others has been chosen as a finalist for the prestigious 2012 oikos Sustainability Case Writing Competition.
London, along with Jonathan Doh of Villanova University and Vasilia Kilibarda of WDI’s case writing initiative GlobaLens, wrote “Building and Scaling a Cross-Sector Partnership: Oxfam America and Swiss Re’s Empower Farmers in Ethiopia.” It was one of five cases selected from 17 as a finalist.
The case discusses how international charity Oxfam and leading global reinsurer Swiss Re partnered to provide micro-insurance and other services to help rural farmers in Ethiopia protect their crops and livelihoods from the impacts of climate variability and change, including drought.
London has won the oikos competition twice before. In 2005, he and John Buffington wrote the winning “Building a Sustainable Venture from Ground-up - the Mountain's Institute’s Earth Brick Machine. In 2008, he and Mary Christiansen wrote the winning case on VisionSpring, that sells affordable reading glasses to people with presbyopia living at the base of the pyramid (BoP).
The competition is sponsored by the oikos Foundation at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. oikos Foundation at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
