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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

But even more so, I believe that deep down, managers and executives feel that getting by on razor-thin margins is the morally correct way to do business among the poor. The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story. Given its flaws, I've often wondered why the low-price, low-margin philosophy has persisted.

Microfinance

Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking

Give Impact Investing Time and Space to Develop

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

Without those, the institutions managing the billions of sector dollars won’t be able accurately to assess the risks they are taking and, more important, the returns, both financial and social, they hope to generate. We allowed microfinance and the venture capital industry the time and space to develop over a few decades.

Development

Development Microfinance Biotechnology Exit Strategy

Leadership Digital

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

Give Impact Investing Time and Space to Develop

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