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How Large NGOs Are Using Data to Transform Themselves

Harvard Business Review

A critical part was adapting a proven model in a related field: microfinance. By increasing or jump-starting these institutions’ housing microfinance lending, Habitat aims to create robust markets for this financing that can continue on their own. Habitat has thereby transformed the nature and scale of its impact.

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President Obama Can Make Start-Up America Succeed

Harvard Business Review

I suggest that Obama announces now that Start-Up America will officially disband on December 31, 2015. Microfinance (Bangladesh), securitization of revenues (Saudi Arabia), and royalty-pay-back funding (Israel) were all invented overseas. Nothing prevents Obama or his successor from starting a new initiative on January 1, 2016.