Do Teams Work Best When The Stakes Are High?
The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
This process, which they refer to as gradualism, is commonly used in team building and training initiatives, and are also common in the field of microfinance.
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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2018
Impact investing can learn from the history of microfinance — the provision of debt and other financial services to the poor — an industry that was at a similar stage 15 years ago. Lessons from Microfinance. There are two major debates in particular about microfinance that are relevant for the impact investment industry.
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Global Entrepreneurs Need New Funding Models
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 4, 2012
"We wanted to do this because we recognize that small enterprises are a very significant engine for development; they create employment, which tends to be more sustainable and better paid than you would find in the more informal microfinance sector," says Oxfam's Nicholas Colloff. But times have changed.
Using Games to Get a Handle on Bank Risk
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 13, 2011
Popular games also tend to spawn communities who share information and strategies about how to overcome hurdles, suggesting that peer to peer education is also possible (this has been seen in microfinance). Researchers also observed increased cooperation and effort among individual players.
President Obama Can Make Start-Up America Succeed
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
Ventures should compete and cooperate with ventures, regardless of their nationalities. Microfinance (Bangladesh), securitization of revenues (Saudi Arabia), and royalty-pay-back funding (Israel) were all invented overseas. Do we really want to beat India at developing clean tech, cheap medical devices, and affordable housing?
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