article thumbnail

Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

December 2010. November 2010. October 2010. September 2010. August 2010. April 2010. March 2010. February 2010. January 2010. Inverted Pyramid of Project Success. Top 5 Servant Leadership Tweeters In 2010. Servant Leadership Observer – December 2010.

article thumbnail

Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, J.P Morgan projected up to $1T in investment would be deployed this decade — which would make impact investing twice the size of official development aid to the world’s less develop countries (as defined by the United Nations) , presuming historic levels of aid stayed constant since 2010. Lessons from Microfinance.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Women as Microfinance Leaders, Not Just Clients

Harvard Business Review

We're a network of microfinance organizations; we exist to share practices and develop the leadership skills required by a sector that has grown up fast. And as you might be aware, microfinance is a phenomenon that, while it did not set out to be "for women," has mainly turned out to be.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

How Large NGOs Are Using Data to Transform Themselves

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, the Seilers surveyed all officers and social services staff. Over the past five years, the program has been successful enough that other territories are adopting it. A critical part was adapting a proven model in a related field: microfinance. The results corroborated their concerns.

article thumbnail

Facebook Presence Is an Important Clue to a Social Venture's Future

Harvard Business Review

Social ventures with bigger Facebook networks also were more successful in raising capital: The correlation between number of Facebook likes and capital raised was 0.34. This makes sense to Milaap.org , a social enterprise in Bangalore that crowdsources low-cost capital for microfinance institutions through its online platform.

article thumbnail

It's Not All About Growth for Social Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. Successful examples of this approach are still rare; most people point to microfinance.