Jason Fairbourne

Jason Fairbourne is a United States business consultant and educator. He is the founder of the Fairbourne Consulting Group, and is a Peery Fellow at the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management.[1][2] He is an advocate for microfranchising,[3] defined as the systematization and replication of microenterprises in developing markets.

Fairbourne is the author of MicroFranchising: Creating Wealth at the Bottom of the Pyramid.

Bibliography

Books and articles by Jason Fairbourne:

  • Fairbourne, Jason S., Gibson, Stephen W. & Gibb, W.: MicroFranchising: Creating Wealth at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Edward Elgar Pub, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84844-053-1
  • Fairbourne, Jason, ‘Microfranchising’, Marriott Alumni Magazine, Summer 2007, Marriott School, Brigham Young University, at https://web.archive.org/web/20110719155524/http://marriottschool.byu.edu/marriottmag/summer07/features/atwork1.cfm (accessed May 15, 2008)
  • Fairbourne, Jason, Lisa J. Christensen, and David Lehr. "A Good Business for Poor People." Stanford Social Innovation Review (2010): 43-49.
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References
  1. "Company overview of Fairbourne Consulting Group". Bloomberg.net. May 2018. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  2. "BYU Ballard Center names first Peery Fellow". News.byu.edu. 17 August 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  3. "MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Jason Fairbourne of Brigham Young University Advocates Use of Microfranchising in Conjunction with Microfinance". Microcapital.org. 21 September 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2017.


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