The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This process, which they refer to as gradualism, is commonly used in team building and training initiatives, and are also common in the field of microfinance. The results suggest that the team who had gradually higher stakes seemed to outperform the other two groups, and managed to coordinate successfully in 2/3 of the tasks they were set.

Microfinance 93

Microfinance Team Finance Reference 93

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

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.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Ventures should compete and cooperate with ventures, regardless of their nationalities. Encourage financial entrepreneurship and innovation. 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.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Risk management processes don't — but they should. Financial institutions must find innovative ways to understand their consumers' aspirations and actual behavior. Interdependencies: Insufficient understanding of interactions remains a critical issue in financial innovation.

Banking 10

Banking Pharmaceuticals Microfinance Risk Management 10