The SEI Case Series

The Social Enter­prise Case Series is a series of mini-publications pro­duced in-house by SEI Research Asso­ciates and North­east­ern Uni­ver­sity in an effort to pro­vide easy to access infor­ma­tion about lead­ing social enterprises.

While most busi­ness case stud­ies can vary between 20–30 pages in length, our case series are meant to pro­vide a quick snap­shot of infor­ma­tion in just 2–4 pages.

View our entire list of SE Case Stud­ies, down­load them, read them and feel free to share them freely, as we are an open source insti­tu­tion ded­i­cated to inform­ing the pub­lic on social entrepreneurship.

Aravind Eye Care System

The Gift of Sight Muthu is a poor 60-year old man in a vil­lage in the Siva­ganga dis­trict with seven chil­dren. Ten years ago, he sus­tained a blow to his right eye that caused severe dam­age on the inner por­tion of his eye. Due to lack of aware­ness regard­ing avail­able eye care facil­i­ties and neg­li­gence to …
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Ashoka

Ashoka is lead­ing a pro­found trans­for­ma­tion in soci­ety. In the past three decades, the global cit­i­zen sec­tor, led by social entre­pre­neurs, has grown expo­nen­tially. Just as the busi­ness sec­tor expe­ri­enced a tremen­dous spurt in pro­duc­tiv­ity over the last cen­tury, the cit­i­zen sec­tor is expe­ri­enc­ing a sim­i­lar rev­o­lu­tion, with the num­ber and sophis­ti­ca­tion of cit­i­zen orga­ni­za­tions increas­ing dra­mat­i­cally. Rather …
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Banco Compartamos

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Partners In Health

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TOMS Shoes

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Two barefoot children wait during a food distribution in Buge village, Wolayita region in southern Ethiopia