Mills Scofield
MAY 5, 2015
Through my classes, I’ve been forced to question the intentions of authors of primary sources, understand biases present within my readings and even my professor, observe the tone of speakers in context to their audience, and seek out further information to support the claims I make when I write my history papers. These are my passions.
Mills Scofield
MAY 5, 2015
Through my classes, I’ve been forced to question the intentions of authors of primary sources, understand biases present within my readings and even my professor, observe the tone of speakers in context to their audience, and seek out further information to support the claims I make when I write my history papers. These are my passions.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 13, 2012
The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story. Microfinance banks, which provide desperately needed loans to low-income consumers, draw mainstream investors because of their attractive returns. The result has been explosive growth. And in D and E markets, the environment demands a very high contribution per transaction.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 11, 2013
Social entrepreneurs have also been some of the most attentive followers of the academic debate between the likes of Mark Pitt and Jonathan Murdoch about whether microfinance really helps reduce poverty. But the evidence shows that over time they generate completely new value classes.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
To gain traction with that upper-middle class — and their disposable income — entrepreneurs need the ability to blend international quality standards with African design. Top of the Pyramid. An unfortunate reality of many African economies is that only a tiny fraction of the population participates in the formal economy.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 2, 2014
applied for Teach for America—including 10% of the graduating classes of Dartmouth and Yale. Or consider Kwabena Darko of Ghana, who helped found that country’s microfinance sector by forging a collaboration between global NGO Opportunity International , his national startup Sinapi Aba , and a myriad of village- and town-based trust groups.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 17, 2014
Akin to the Morningstar Style Box , such a framework would allow an investor to easily identify best-in-class social and financial performance across and within the various sub-sectors of impact investing. We allowed microfinance and the venture capital industry the time and space to develop over a few decades.
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