The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
. “What drives successful group coordination is important because team coordination is ubiquitous in many work settings, such as in medical professions, in law enforcement, or in finance, ” the researchers say. “Therefore, uncovering the key determinants of successful group coordination is paramount.”
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2018
Impact investing can learn from the history of microfinance — the provision of debt and other financial services to the poor — an industry that was at a similar stage 15 years ago. Lessons from Microfinance. There are two major debates in particular about microfinance that are relevant for the impact investment industry.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 4, 2012
In low-income countries, according to World Bank data in a recent paper by the consultancy Dalberg, 43% of businesses with between 20 and 99 employees say that access to finance is a major constraint. The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and]
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 13, 2011
Yet unlike in finance, where distributing risk across institutions is the goal, in drug development the focus is on isolating risk. Popular games also tend to spawn communities who share information and strategies about how to overcome hurdles, suggesting that peer to peer education is also possible (this has been seen in microfinance).
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
Ventures should compete and cooperate with ventures, regardless of their nationalities. Entrepreneurship in financial services has been given a bad rap as one contributor to the economic crisis, but we desperately need innovative financing models for start-ups. We don't innovate in entrepreneurial finance enough in the U.S.:
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