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Book Review: The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook

Chartered Management Institute

Rupert is the CEO of the foundation for International Community Assistance, a leading microfinance institution. The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook by Rupert Scofield is written to guide the aspiring social entrepreneur through the full range of activities of starting, building and running a social business. Review by David Stephens FCMI.

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Learning from Microfinance's Woes

Harvard Business Review

A few weeks ago, I attended a lecture about microfinance, and got sucker-punched. Expecting to hear a litany of pros and cons about the business, and an exploration of good and bad models, I was instead greeted with a knockout punch: Microfinance doesn't work, at least not in the way we think it does. That's nice.

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Lessons for Social Entrepreneurs from the Microfinance Crisis

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

Book Says Servant Leadership Critical for Marketing Leaders. Peer-to-Peer Microfinance: A Sustainable Solution to Poverty. Open Leadership Book Review. Improve Your Focus: Try The Pomodoro Technique. Servant Leadership Review: Battle Los Angeles Movie. Introducing the Modern Servant Leader Logo. Sometimes You Must be a Nuisance.

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Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and his colleagues more than a decade ago in a series of articles and books, and it has stuck in the minds of businesspeople, policy makers, and nonprofits despite results that can only be described as dismal. The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story. It's more than just conventional wisdom.

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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact

Harvard Business Review

You can find the answer to the timing question nestled among the facts that David Bornstein lays out in the preface to his book, How to Change the World. What happened in 2006? And is this kind of rapid growth good news? Amplify the voices of the constituents you seek to serve.

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The Conference That’s Trying to Reinvent How We Network

Harvard Business Review

C2 partnered with Montreal-based start-up E-180 to offer an app through which attendees could share both what they were trying to learn at the event and what knowledge they could impart to others, then use the information to book “brain dates” with each other. And it worked.