Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

Yet my mind doesn’t light up the same way in microeconomics as it does learning about the overlapping women’s movement, anti-war movement and civil rights movements of the 1960s. She's spending the summer in Dhaka doing microfinance. My brother insists I take computer science. History provides me with this mental toolkit.

CEO 70

CEO Microfinance Class Pharmaceuticals 70

Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

Yet my mind doesn’t light up the same way in microeconomics as it does learning about the overlapping women’s movement, anti-war movement and civil rights movements of the 1960s. She's spending the summer in Dhaka doing microfinance. My brother insists I take computer science. History provides me with this mental toolkit.

CEO 70

CEO Microfinance Class Pharmaceuticals 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

If you've ever had anything to do with business initiatives among the world's poor — the so-called bottom of the economic pyramid — you've no doubt heard the advice that enterprises in this space need to aim for low prices, low profit margins, and high sales volumes. The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story.

Microfinance 13

Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Currently, impact can mean anything from venture investments in new health technologies to microfinance loans in Peru; from affordable housing in the US to renewable energy in India; from social impact bonds to private equity funds that create jobs. There is no right or wrong impact class—what matters is identifying preferences.

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8