Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 1, 2013
Sasikala, a Block Development Officer (BDO), talked to the Kodapattinam villagers about microfinance , only Shantha, of all the villagers, saw the opportunity and took action. Undeterred, Shantha persisted until she persuaded the required number of people to sign up for the microfinance project. I knew I wanted to succeed.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 21, 2013
To address this, Cape Town-based NGO mothers2mothers employs and trains HIV-positive mothers as "Mentor Mothers" who work alongside nurses and doctors in clinics, providing psychosocial support to pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV. Thirty-five percent of these infections occur in South Africa and Nigeria alone.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 2, 2014
Huge companies like IBM have created programs to train and transition retirees into social sector roles. is Year Up , an organization that mentors and trains disconnected youth into living-wage jobs. Since then, TFA has become one of the largest employers of Ivy League graduates. Take the issue of youth unemployment.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 15, 2016
.” Laudable as these may be, USAID, the State Department, and other government agencies should really be backing programs that stimulate and support scalable, innovative, job-creating businesses – the kinds of companies that are antidotes to mass unemployment and economic hopelessness, not microfinance.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 30, 2018
In her book, Expect to Win , Carla Harris provided examples of times that mentors in the organization helped her to showcase her multifaceted self, such as when one sponsor colleague invited her to sing at a work party. Similarly, we can all work to destabilize the shared narratives we have about what “it takes” to get ahead.
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