Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

While many ideas for businesses never fully come to fruition, some entrepreneurs dream big enough to actually put pencil to paper. Though starting a business amidst the current pandemic might feel impossible, over 69% of American entrepreneurs begin their businesses right from the comfort of their own homes.

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Microfinance Entrepreneur Planning Audience 121

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 27, 2012

You will be excited and optimistic about the passion, compassion, thought, analysis, and implementation of this generation. One of his main tasks was to structure a hedging derivative that negated foreign exchange risks so that Microfinance institutions could take safer loans from the developed world.

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Incentives Marketing Microfinance Entrepreneur 171

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

A few weeks ago, I attended a lecture about microfinance, and got sucker-punched. Expecting to hear a litany of pros and cons about the business, and an exploration of good and bad models, I was instead greeted with a knockout punch: Microfinance doesn't work, at least not in the way we think it does. That's nice.

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Microfinance Due Diligence Cost-Benefit Analysis Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

And while some foundations bucked the trend and made double-digit investment gains in recent years, the average foundation in Chronicle's analysis netted out 14.9 It called for leveraging the profits of the global microfinance institution, and coupling them with private investments from the Allmans and their donor network.

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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

Fledgling social entrepreneurs may have a lot of passion, but they usually don't have much of a track record, a circumstance that leaves would-be backers to wonder: Which have the potential to become genuine world-changers? Which are likely to achieve significant social impact within an attractive business model?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Microfinance Media Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Bravo entrepreneurs. Obama has placed real entrepreneurs at the heart of the dialogue, and you appear to be listening to them. As a leader, Obama makes entrepreneurship a top priority, and has consistently promoted entrepreneurs as central economic actors and key to economic recovery. Bravo President. Bravo White House.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

And we are often happy to review these start-up plans — which include the typical elements such as a product description, competitive analysis, estimate of market size, and projected financials. Applying a formal spreadsheet-type analysis to an early stage concept can be " disastrous." Purpose and Passion. Do we understand why?

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Entrepreneur Planning Taylorism Taylor 8