Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2018
Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively. Lessons from Microfinance.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 10, 2011
So far, the Andhra Pradesh (AP) microfinance crisis has largely been viewed as a local issue, with relatively little impact beyond AP or India's borders. Other microfinance crises, in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, and Bosnia, have not spread beyond the borders of a particular country. That could likely have consequences.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 22, 2011
The microfinance industry has in just a few years gone from making headlines for the Nobel Peace Prize to stories about limited impact, allegedly abusive tactics, client suicides, government crackdowns, major lenders struggling with insolvency and the forcible removal of Mohammed Yunus as Managing Director of Grameen Bank.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 5, 2016
While meeting this challenge is a clear priority for policy makers and donors, it is also a major profit opportunity for commercial players who can solve market failures and create real value. People don’t need to borrow money during a personal crisis if they have their own savings.
Modern Servant Leader
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
Holocaust and the 2008 Financial Crisis – Leadership Lessons in Resistance. Book Says Servant Leadership Critical for Marketing Leaders. Peer-to-Peer Microfinance: A Sustainable Solution to Poverty. Twitter Lists For Event Preparation & Catalyst Discount Code. Leadership Lessons from a Cracked Pot.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 18, 2016
“Ninety percent of the Corps and service units [told us that they] were providing all of those basic services people need to survive in crisis,” Seiler explained. A critical part was adapting a proven model in a related field: microfinance. The results corroborated their concerns.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
Subramaniam is widely acclaimed as the Father of the Green Revolution in India, because in the mid-1960s, as the Minister for Food and Agriculture, he successfully handled a major food crisis). Over 1,900 beneficiaries have established micro-enterprises for which microfinance has been facilitated.
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