By developing a low-cost structure and specialising in maternity care, LifeSpring Hospitals, a fast-growing private healthcare chain in India, can charge Rs2,000 ($43, €29, £26) for a normal delivery, a cost that runs to Rs12,000 in mainstream Indian private hospitals. Learning how to deliver services to the world's poorest consumers is not what MBA students aspired to. But with a new wave of students looking to use their business skills to tackle global problems, stories of social enterprises such as LifeSpring's find eager audiences.
通過建立一個低成本結構以及在婦幼保健方面的專長,印度發展迅速的私人醫療連鎖機構LifeSpring Hospitals正常分娩的收費爲2000印度盧比(43美元),而印度主流私人醫院的收費可高達1.2萬印度盧比。學習如何向全球最貧困的消費者提供服務,並非MBA學生的追求。但隨著新的一批學生希望利用自己的商業技能來解決全球性問題, LifeSpring等社會企業的故事找到了熱情的聽衆。