Students from two Global Network schools, the Yale School of Management and the Asian Institute of Management, worked with five social enterprises in the Philippines, including a bamboo bicycle company.
Yale School of Management students recently worked alongside students from the Asian Institute of Management as a part of a social entrepreneurship course that paired the students with five businesses in the Philippines. In a blog post, Rafael Scott Torres, a Yale SOM student, writes about his experience consulting with Bambike, a company that specializes in making bamboo bicycles using fair trade labor practices.
We learned every step to create the bike frames from the cutting of the raw bamboo poles to the sanding and painting of the finished bike frame. The bambuilders are capable of producing up to 10 bike frames per week. We also had the opportunity to see Brother Jun, one of the bambuilders, become the operations manager responsible for the production of the frames in GK as part of the plan that Bambike has to grow and empower people.
