Remove Cooper Remove Development Remove Innovation Remove Microfinance
article thumbnail

Global Entrepreneurs Need New Funding Models

Harvard Business Review

Yet new breeds of solutions are emerging, with private and public players joining hands to find innovative answers. Standing before a brown swathe of land cut up into rectangular ditches for a World Bank-funded project just outside Liberia's capital city of Monrovia, George Howard is a beneficiary of one such innovation.

article thumbnail

Using Games to Get a Handle on Bank Risk

Harvard Business Review

Yet unlike in finance, where distributing risk across institutions is the goal, in drug development the focus is on isolating risk. Although new drugs are developed for those with a particular disease, they are tested in a healthy population before they are distributed and assessed in a vulnerable one.

Banking 10
article thumbnail

President Obama Can Make Start-Up America Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Do we really want to beat India at developing clean tech, cheap medical devices, and affordable housing? Ventures should compete and cooperate with ventures, regardless of their nationalities. Encourage financial entrepreneurship and innovation. We don't innovate in entrepreneurial finance enough in the U.S.: