TEM Lab Project Blogs

PERU – ACURIO RESTAURANTES & ANPE – JANUARY 2012
TEM Lab is partnering with Acurio Restaurantes and ANPE (La Asociación Nacional de Productores Ecológicos del Perú) to develop marketing strategies for the farmers of ANPE so that they can improve their sales, develop direct client relationships with restaurants, and create a market for specialty native produce. ANPE is an organization of over 12,000 producers from 22 regions of Peru that decided to unite efforts and initiatives around the national development of agroecology. Since the ANPE farmers are focused on sustainability and improving the farmers’ social impact, assisting the ANPE farmers will promote many social enterprises in the supply chain and also increase the number of restaurants that purchase from the social enterprise farmers as opposed to the middlemen, whom are normally not socially conscious. Acurio Restaurantes is led by the internationally famous chef Gaston Acurio and is a pioneer in developing socially responsible supply chains and using unique ingredients from small farmers. This project is part of an effort to implement social enterprise practices industry-wide.

MEXICO CITY – HOVDE FOUNDATION – JANUARY 2012
The Hovde Foundation is a Washington, D.C. based NGO whose mission is to help abused and neglected children around the world by providing them with consistent shelter, food, and general necessities usually provided by family members. The Thunderbird team will focus on identifying potential businesses that the Hovde Foundation could start, or buy, and operate as a social enterprise with the profits being used to support the operations of the Hovde House in Mexico City. The target business should not only be profitable, but provide skill-building employment for youth living in the Hovde House. Thus this TEM Lab team will be performing deep financial and social evaluations of potential businesses.

GHANA – PALMS – EXXONMOBIL – JULY 2011
Thunderbird’s team of student consultants are working on the ground in Ghana with Christian Volunteer Service International (CVSI) through their Productive Agricultural Linkages and Marketing Systems (P.A.L.M.S.) program, to successfully establish an organizational system capable of producing and distributing the moringa plant for the social and economic benefit of the local community.

INDONESIA – KOPERNIK – JULY 2011
The Thunderbird TEM Lab Team is in the field to assess the social impact of the technologies that are being distributed to these women and identify economic opportunities that have resulted from the use of the cooking stoves and the water purifier.

GHANA – GLOBALRESOLVE – MAY 2011
In a TEM Lab first, the Ghana team is collaborating with Arizona State University’s GlobalResolve and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to help create and implement a sustainable solution to the issues associated with wood burning stoves.

UGANDA – SMALLSOLUTIONS – MARCH 2011
smallsolutions disseminates energy technologies such as solar lamps and energy efficient stoves to energy impoverished communities at the grassroots level in Africa.

UGANDA – SOLAR SISTER – MARCH 2011
Solar Sister operates a pilot project in Uganda to build a network of Solar Sister entrepreneurs, women who sell solar lamps to their communities.

CAMBODIA – DIGITAL DIVIDE DATA – FEBRUARY 2011
The TEM Lab Cambodia team will work with DDD to expand their market presence in Cambodia, targeting key growth industries such as healthcare and banking. Follow us as we work with DDD, employing the hard and soft skills we have learned through our Thunderbird MBA.

GUATEMALA – IDB – MINECO – JANUARY 2011
The Thunderbird TEM Lab Guatemala team will provide assistance to the Guatemalan Ministry of Economy (MINECO) to help build export capacity for Micro, Small, and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs).

ALBANIA – LINCOLN CENTER – JULY 2010
In thirteen years, the Lincoln Centers have served nearly 50,000 students of all ages and skill levels. The organization is at a cross roads; while Lincoln continues to fulfill its original mission, the management team believes that significant growth opportunities exist in geographic expansion of its core offerings in Albania and the Balkan region. Our team is working with Lincoln to develop transformation and expansion strategies that will meet their current and future goals.

VIETNAM – YASAKA SAIGON NHATRANG – MAY 2010
Charged with working for the province’s tourism board in order to create a marketing plan that will help to properly brand the province, increase awareness among domestic and international travelers and in turn yield a measured increase in the number of tourists and tourism Dong spent.

PERU – MIBANCO – MARCH 2010
The program will provide tools and resources specific to the MYPE segment that will help them grow their businesses, which will in turn lead to a stronger long-term relationship with Mibanco.