# What businesses can learn from refugee communities

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED@UPS
- Speaker: Christine Thach
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/christine_thach_what_businesses_can_learn_from_refugee_communities)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

As the child of Cambodian refugees resettled in the US, Christine Thach grew up in a tight-knit community of former refugees that taught her the value of collective success and interdependence. She credits her community's success to their readiness to embrace a team mentality and to creating a culture of empowerment. Thach argues that the collective success mindset so often seen in refugee communities, and today's competitive capitalist business culture are not at odds -- in fact, they are complementary.

## Lectures

1. [What businesses can learn from refugee communities](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/christine_thach_what_businesses_can_learn_from_refugee_communities/f07d77543ab2), 12 min (TED's player)