Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Its aim is to target an important segment of the labor force, young people who have not received adequate education and training due to various external and internal factors. This challenge is not easy because we are not discussing high school or college graduates, but youth that may not have received any formal education.

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Microfinance Seminar How To Education 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

That year, two global headlines raised the profile of social enterprise: Mohammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace prize. Razia Jan, the founder of Zabuli Education Center in Afghanistan, for example, is empowering Afghan girls to speak up in their homes and communities by providing them with free education.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance NGO Mission Statement 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

The Indian study, one of the few high quality studies of microcredit extended to women, found no increase in household spending on clothing, food, or education. Second, the marketing pitch for focusing on women and girls increasingly is stereotyping men in the effort to combat the stereotyping of women.

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Microfinance Globalization Long-term Class 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. They may have a thematic lens: improved healthcare, educational reform, financial inclusion, climate change and so on.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Commercial microfinance organizations are perhaps the best-known hybrid organizations, but social entrepreneurs now use hybrid models to address a diverse set of social issues that includes hunger, healthcare, economic development, environment, education, housing, culture, law, and politics.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Infuse Start-Up America with a global perspective. Opportunities and markets are global. To be more global, it will help to do more to encourage entrepreneur immigrants ; everyone knows how critical they have been in building some of the most successful American ventures, so let's help them stay here after they get their Ph.Ds.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

An estimated 250 funds are actively raising capital in a market that the Global Impact Investing Network estimates at $25 billion. We allowed microfinance and the venture capital industry the time and space to develop over a few decades. Impact investing has captured the world’s imagination. Social enterprise Venture capital'

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Development Microfinance Biotechnology Exit Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. And if you need access to money, crowdfunding platforms and microfinance options make that easier than ever. Maybe it’s time to put a bit more emphasis on creativity and commercial savoir faire in our education system.

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