Doctors Without Borders. Why is it successful?
Doctors donate their time and talent to do what they do best.
How could we, CEOs and business people, contribute to wealth and job creation?
By helping businesses in less developed countries do what we know best: create and develop opportunities
It is widely agreed that humanitarian aid is successful in alleviating the effects of natural and economic disasters, but it will not bring economic development.
Only a strong business community can achieve economic growth and eradicate poverty.
SME are critical to consolidate a business community that provides opportunities for more people.
Entrepreneurial activity
Jobs & Wealth
GDP
per capita
Poverty
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Hence, successful business leaders who understand the complexity of today's business world are in a unique position to help…
We should use our know-how and experience to foster business growth in developing countries.
Introducing:
A global network of business people working to foster business growth & job creation in less developed countries.
Goal
Entepreneurship Development
What we do
Business Cooperation
Services
Matching Centre Social Network
Structural Development
Leverage
Strategic Alliances
Increasing aid Effectiveness
Build & share Knowledge
Learning Zone Consultancy
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CEOs without borders is a distinguished club with unique expertise, advise, experience, technology & financial support channelled through the following services:
Matching & Social Network Strategic Alliances Learning Zone & Consultancy
Matching Centre & Online Social Network
CWB puts in place platforms that allow the global business community to find the right match between their know-how & expertise and the challenges entrepreneurs from less developed countries face today.
Type of partnerships we are building:
know-how transmission, strategic advice, transfer or exchange of technologies, commercial cooperation.
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Matching Centre: Cases: technology support
AQUAFRESH (Accra, Ghana) Juice producer Mr. Millet, CEO FOODTECH (Madrid, Spain) Global leading company in food processing
Mr. Millet cannot commercialize orange juice because of the acute bitterness of the local fruit
Food Tech collaborates by analyzing in its laboratories the problems/causes of the bitterness, and finds the best way to turn Mr. Millet’s final concentrate into a marketable product.
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Matching Centre: Cases: know-how transmission
BAAH ENTERPRISES 1st supermarket chain in Ghana Mr. Baah, CEO CONDIS GROUP Leading chainstore in Spain Mr. Ezquerra, CEO
Mr Baah needs assistance in the creation of a leader chain store
Assistance in the design of a successful business model and growth strategy Recommendations for the financial account management
Mr. Baah now carries out P&L by business units, learning which units are more profitable.
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Matching Centre: Cases: technology and know-how transmission
ROYAL DALEX (Tema, Ghana) IT company in Ghana that builds tailored software Mr. Alexander Aquaye, CEO SOFTOBERT (Barcelona, Spain) Luis Trevino, CEO and ex-manager at Microsoft
Mr. Acquaye wants to integrate website development in his service portfolio
Training in website design
Hosting to offer complete website packages
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Matching Centre
Private institutions that shape the business environment also share know-how and expertise:
IESE Business School (Barcelona) shares know-how on
business case analysis with Strathmore University (Nairobi)
PIMEC business association (Barcelona) shares
know-how on their business model and training courses with the Association of Ghana Industries (Accra)
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CEOs without borders is a distinguished club with unique expertise, advise, experience, technology & financial support channelled through the following services:
Matching & Social Network Strategic Alliances Learning Zone & Consultancy
Strategic Alliances
CWB teams up with business schools, financial institutions, NGOs and other organizations who look at developmental aid from a business perspective.
We jointly support entrepreneurs from less developed countries with scalable
and sustainable interventions. We jointly promote the replication of business solutions that serve market needs (ex. M-pesa success in cell phone banking in Kenya, MamaMikes.com success to enables the expatriate community from Kenya and Uganda to pay for products or services for family and friends in their homeland, etc.)
CEOs Without Borders provides support in the form of know-how, expertise and network.
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Strategic Alliances: Cases:
Organizing Migration Streams
The Spanish market is experiencing an important low-skilled labor shortage that, together with the little job perspectives of young workers in Senegal, brings to increasing uncontrolled streams of unskilled Senegalese workers risking their lives to arrive to Spain. Visions Ent. and Goupe ISED are professional training centres in Senegal. Youth don’t pay for the training. Their practices in private local enterprises finances the school. Nevertheless, alumni can’t get a job because of high unemployment rates. CWB together with Grupo Timenta, a Spanish company with headquarters in Dakar, is working to establish a communication channel between the INEM (the governmental employment institution in Spain) and training schools in Senegal to match the training they provide with the Spanish market´s needs.
Strategic partners: relevant governmental institutions that facilitate working permits for the alumni trained in sectors experiencing labor shortages (Immigration Ministry) + introduce Senegalese students to the Spanish customs & language (Instituto Cervantes in Dakar).
If developed with success, this model could be replicated wherever there are uncontrolled immigration streams.
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Strategic Alliances: Cases:
Generating new opportunities in agroindustry
Universitat Politecnica of Catalonia (Barcelona) researchers have found the formula to freeze ready-to-eat fruit. CEOs without borders is contributing to build a fund to finance a pilot plant using this process. If developed with success, this would open the door to new possibilities for the agro-industry sector in Africa which could then offer to western markets optimum matured fruit.
Malaria eradication through business
CEOs without borders is collaborating with the private sector in Ghana and Universitat Politecnica of Catalonia to develop an affordable and commercially viable mosquito repellent system that could be painted on the walls of African homes.
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CEOs without borders is a distinguished club with unique expertise, advise, experience, technology & financial support channelled through the following services:
Matching & Social Network Strategic Alliances Learning Zone & Consultancy
Learning Zone
CWB Library:
Useful tools for business development Guides on business cooperation Research on results from entrepreneurial support aid programmes
Blog: platform set up for member companies to share experiences
and ideas for upcoming challenges (relevant information is analysed and developed together with expert research centres and posted back in the CWB-library).
CWB Events: CEOs without borders periodically holds meetings
where member CEOs meet and share their vision and experiences.
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Consultancy Services
Aid interventions must take into account the sustainability and impact on local business communities in order to avoid unexpected and undesirable consequences…
CWB expertise can help you ensure that the CSR projects you lead strengthen the local community.
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Aid interventions must take into account local businesses
2003: Emmanuel Teteeh graduates from the Ghana University, specializing in Website Development 2005: The German Government, in an effort to boost the Ghanaian business community, decides to provide free website. 2006: SOFT Internet Solutions loses bids, one after the other, against the GG. Later that year, the company had to close down. Nevertheless, the story has a happy ending: By 2007, Emmanuel sets up another IT company, which he is still running now.
2004: Emmanuel starts working as a Graphic Designer. Later that year, he partners with SOFT Internet Solutions (Gh) Limited, building dynamic websites for corporate institutions
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Current Players
CEOs Without Borders Xavier Sala-i-Martin
President, CWB-NY NPO
Joan Oliver
President, CWB-BCN
Mariona Puig
CEO
Advisory Board
Business Schools
Financial Institutions
Cesar Alierta
CEO, Telefonica
CWB
Carlos Colomer
President, The Colomer Group
Peter Loescher
CEO, Siemens
Christian Morales
Vice-President, Intel
Mario Rotllant
President, NABC
Businesses In DC
Diaspora
John M. Scott
President, KPMG
Ferran Soriano
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Getting Involved
What can you offer? How can you get involved?
EXPERTISE
NETWORKS
ADVICE EXPERIENCE TECHNOLOGY
Business Cooperation
Building Network
Membership
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
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CEOs without borders´ Story
2006 Incorporation of CWB in Barcelona. Establishment of strategic alliances with worldwide business associations, business schools and other organizations that can contribute to the project. Start of pilot cooperation projects in Ghana.
2007 Incorporation of CWB in NY. Scaling up of strategic alliances and pilot projects in Ghana and Senegal. Documentary filming.
2008 - 2009 Incorporation of new members to the Advisory Board. Consolidation of structure and project. Public presentation of the CEOs without borders foundation in Davos.
Contact Information
Barcelona
Empresaris Sense Fronteres Enric Granados 32, 2. 1. 08008 Barcelona Tel: +34 933 930 179 Email: info@empresariossf.org
New York
CEOs Without Borders 35 Claremont Av 3s New York 10027 Tel: +1 631 731 1790 Email: info@ceowb.org
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