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Innovating The Brick-and-Mortar Injustice Infrastructure

Mills Scofield

This week''s post is by Andy Posner , Co-Founder & Executive Director of Capital Good Fund ( CGF ), a non-profit microfinance organization targeting the root causes of poverty through innovative micro-loans and personal financial coaching. It’s time for us to finally put poverty out of business for good. [1]

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Making Microfinance More Effective

Harvard Business Review

A major challenge for international development efforts is determining which financial tools provide durable buffers against such setbacks. The Grameen model of microfinance gained a great deal of attention in the international development field after early data showed that it was associated with high repayment and low default.

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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

Why Technology Managers Make Great Leaders. How to Handle a Seagull Manager. Do You Have a “Seagull Manager”? Peer-to-Peer Microfinance: A Sustainable Solution to Poverty. Task Prioritization and Time Management – John Maxwell Style. Management. Project Management. Time Management.

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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

These disciplines provide me with a tool kit to navigate any situation I am presented, and in my opinion, make me a better employee. She's spending the summer in Dhaka doing microfinance. The situations I study in history are different, but as seen above, the skills used are the same.

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Banking on Women and Girls: Key to Global Poverty Alleviation

Harvard Business Review

On this 100th International Women's Day , it is right to reflect on how women have become the heart of the microfinance industry. It is easy to forget that the initial motivation for microfinance roughly 30 years ago was, to a great extent, gender neutral. Microfinance is about much more than extending credit.

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Global Entrepreneurs Need New Funding Models

Harvard Business Review

And at Harvard, the Kennedy School of Government's Entrepreneurial Finance Lab is examining whether psychometric screening tools that judge for "entrepreneurial ability" and "honesty" could, when paired with sales contracts, convince more banks to lend to entrepreneurs. Further research is underway now. But times have changed.

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Using Games to Get a Handle on Bank Risk

Harvard Business Review

Risk management processes don't — but they should. The success of platforms like Mint.com suggests that there are large numbers of consumers who would like to have better control and tracking of their finances, but are waiting for simple and practical tools to do so.

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