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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

cents for a sachet that could purify 10 liters, Pur achieved penetration rates of 5% to 10% in its test markets — strong by almost any yardstick — but in 2005 the company gave up on Pur as a business, because the numbers simply hadn't worked. The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story.

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Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

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.

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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. Today micro-packaging, for instance, is finally being taken seriously by giant multinational fast-moving-consumer-goods companies.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Supply Chain Prahalad 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Even a star company like Nigeria’s online retailer Jumia ( known by some as the potential “African Amazon” ) is struggling to return profits to early investor Rocket Internet, of Germany. A few of these companies manage to transcend national boundaries and scale to a larger size.

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Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Upon graduation, the governments, nonprofits, or (more recently) microfinance companies give them loans to buy tools and opens shops. Across most developing countries, there is a model for job training where youth are assisted to acquire basic skills. Dropout rates are high; repayment rates are low.

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Microfinance Seminar How To Education 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Commercial microfinance organizations are perhaps the best-known hybrid organizations, but social entrepreneurs now use hybrid models to address a diverse set of social issues that includes hunger, healthcare, economic development, environment, education, housing, culture, law, and politics.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Huge companies like IBM have created programs to train and transition retirees into social sector roles. My organization, The Bridgespan Group, received 1,800 applications for 18 entry-level positions consulting to nonprofits and philanthropy. Since then, TFA has become one of the largest employers of Ivy League graduates.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance NGO Mission Statement 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

The assumption is that company growth is good. Successful examples of this approach are still rare; most people point to microfinance. But when it comes to social ventures, where the primary focus is impact (not profits), bigger isn't necessarily better. Yet, there are early indicators that progress toward this approach is being made.

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Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Kauffman continues to champion the evidence that company age, not size, matters for job creation , and economists based at the OECD have affirmed this across the rich world, explaining that job creation “is driven to a large extent by the entry of new startups as well as higher growth rates of young firms that survive.”

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Microfinance Policies Entrepreneur NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2012

Most companies trying to do business with the 4 billion people who make up the world's poor follow a formula long touted by bottom-of-the-pyramid experts: Offer products at extremely low prices and margins, and hope to generate decent profits by selling enormous quantities of them. The price includes the company's cement products.

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Bottom-up Microfinance Price Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Currently, impact can mean anything from venture investments in new health technologies to microfinance loans in Peru; from affordable housing in the US to renewable energy in India; from social impact bonds to private equity funds that create jobs. There is no right or wrong impact class—what matters is identifying preferences.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

Many large companies are experimenting with ways to tap into their employees’ creative ideas. And if you need access to money, crowdfunding platforms and microfinance options make that easier than ever. But today such companies seem to be stifling entrepreneurship; they have become short-term-oriented and unduly conservative.

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Drucker Microfinance Licensing Entrepreneur 8