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Aravind Eye Hospital

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  • Poonam Sharma
  • Asha Kakoti

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"That's a half full glass" ... "No, that's a half empty glass". Different views on the same object have existed since the beginning of time. Instead of lamenting on the problems in the world, there are only a handful of entrepreneurs who view these problems as business opportunity. Aravind Eye Hospital, based in South India is a venture of such an entrepreneur - Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy. He went beyond sympathising with the poor and saw in them a huge base of value conscious customers. Taking a leaf out of McDonald's standard products across franchisees, Aravind established a cost effective revenue model where thousands of blind poor can be operated on free or nearly free. Today, Aravind treats 2.4 million outpatients and does 286,000 cataracts surgeries every year. The elite medical schools of the globe come here to study its innovative methods.

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  • Poonam Sharma & Asha Kakoti, 2012. "Aravind Eye Hospital," International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 4(3/4), pages 334-341.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijgsbu:v:4:y:2012:i:3/4:p:334-341
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    1. Ildikó Kertai-Kiss, 2015. "The Place of the Business Models as a Part of the Innovation Process," Proceedings- 11th International Conference on Mangement, Enterprise and Benchmarking (MEB 2015),, Óbuda University, Keleti Faculty of Business and Management.

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