Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

But even more so, I believe that deep down, managers and executives feel that getting by on razor-thin margins is the morally correct way to do business among the poor. The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story. Given its flaws, I've often wondered why the low-price, low-margin philosophy has persisted.

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Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

For me, it has been a problem of finance until LEDFC," he says, referring to the Liberian Enterprise Development Finance Corporation that offers Liberian-owned firms desperately needed small business loans. The goal is "to develop sustainable banking products which are more accessible for qualified candidates and women in general."

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Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 14

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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Microfinance Innovation Committee Banking 8

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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Microfinance Follow-up Bureaucracy Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Calling himself the ICT4D jester (using the development jargon for "information and communication technologies for development"), he has no shortage of material. At the program's peak, 700 pumps covered 27,000 acres, with the loans constituting 9% of BRAC's total microfinance portfolio. Immerse yourself in the details.

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Technology Microfinance Banking Document 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

NAF has also established a Research and Development Center in Chennai housing a comprehensive soil testing laboratory, food safety and standards laboratory and a plant tissue culture lab to provide agriculture support services. Watershed and natural resource management initiatives have resulted in increase in water table ranging from 3.5

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Innovation Microfinance Parcell Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Or there’s Nairobi’s SuzieBeauty, which develops cosmetics catering to African tastes at quality matching Western levels. A few of these companies manage to transcend national boundaries and scale to a larger size. It has managed to combine international standards with African tastes. Factors of Production.

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Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Risk management processes don't — but they should. Yet unlike in finance, where distributing risk across institutions is the goal, in drug development the focus is on isolating risk. The challenge of better risk management cannot be achieved through regulation alone.

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Banking Pharmaceuticals Microfinance Risk Management 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

Without those, the institutions managing the billions of sector dollars won’t be able accurately to assess the risks they are taking and, more important, the returns, both financial and social, they hope to generate. First, impact investing needs time to develop. Impact Investing in the Future: Developed clusters across the spectrum.

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Development Microfinance Biotechnology Exit Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

” In less mature economies and fragile regions of the world, entrepreneurs are just as, if not more, critical to livelihoods and development. Among the initial findings : more effective programs emphasize communication skills, networking, and organizational structure over developing finance and accounting skills.

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Microfinance Policies Entrepreneur NGO 8

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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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 14

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. Ultimately, asset managers can develop a matrix with financial asset classes (e.g.,

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

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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Drucker Microfinance Licensing Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

The greedy nature of our work (asking us to wear more hats, to do more, to be always on ), combined with the demands of our personal lives and social pressure to be and focus on just one thing, means we need to learn how to manage our portfolio of different identities and the expectations that come with them. Change how you relate to others.

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How To Learning-by-Doing Examples Participative 10