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Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit

Harvard Business Review

Companies and those that criticize their efforts are not doing D and E consumers any favors by clinging to the low-margin philosophy, which is unable to generate economic returns that are competitive with alternative uses of a company's capital — the true benchmark of business success. The result has been explosive growth.