Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Six years ago, David and Donna Allman approached Opportunity with an idea that fell outside our traditional microfinance model: to build a Community Economic Development (CED) program in Nicaragua. We know that microfinance alone will not break the poverty cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Its aim is to target an important segment of the labor force, young people who have not received adequate education and training due to various external and internal factors. This challenge is not easy because we are not discussing high school or college graduates, but youth that may not have received any formal education.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Without economies of scale, they argued, developing societies would never develop the efficiencies needed to modernize. To address the needs of youth in developing countries, BRAC launched a girls' empowerment program, Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA), in 2008. So BRAC got into food processing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

And Bill Gates announced he was shifting his priorities from software development to social impact by moving full time to his foundation. Razia Jan, the founder of Zabuli Education Center in Afghanistan, for example, is empowering Afghan girls to speak up in their homes and communities by providing them with free education.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Take, for example, the issue of economic development. A hybrid approach is exemplified by startup Frogtek, which develops software for local shopkeepers in emerging markets to more efficiently track their inventory, leading to better purchasing decisions and greater profits.

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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. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Many in the nonprofit world call this technical assistance or training, while for-profit entrepreneurs might see it as business development, partnerships or even affiliate marketing. my money helped prove that there is a more cost-effective way to deliver quality education and a government was able to implement that model in many more areas).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

Under the broad umbrella of impact investments lie myriad sectors, asset types, and investment products, most of which still need to be developed and understood. First, impact investing needs time to develop. Impact Investing in the Future: Developed clusters across the spectrum. sanitation, housing, mobile banking).

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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. Each investor will have their own conception of the social good they are trying to achieve.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Do we really want to beat India at developing clean tech, cheap medical devices, and affordable housing? Microfinance (Bangladesh), securitization of revenues (Saudi Arabia), and royalty-pay-back funding (Israel) were all invented overseas. How about if, as nations, we win together?

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CO2

JUNE 4, 2012

They sent me to the United States—alone, at the age of 17—so that I could stay safe and continue my education. My solution was to found a microfinance organization that puts women in a position to create their own destinies and achieve their full potential. Where does one start? I saw myself as a “transformative” force. May 2012. ###.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

And if you need access to money, crowdfunding platforms and microfinance options make that easier than ever. In the developed world, at least, the means of the entrepreneurial society are in place — and the developing world is catching up fast. To be a hotelier, you need a spare room. What about motive ?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

“My definition of a yoga teacher is just someone who helps people to develop a full spectrum practice in their life. For example, some management consultants developed relationships with colleagues with whom they could be honest about their devotions to both work and family commitments.

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