Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

cents for a sachet that could purify 10 liters, Pur achieved penetration rates of 5% to 10% in its test markets — strong by almost any yardstick — but in 2005 the company gave up on Pur as a business, because the numbers simply hadn't worked. The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story.

Microfinance 14

Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and] This funding deficit results in lost productivity and potential as businesses that have the customers to grow find they have few dollars to invest in the equipment or the talent that expansion requires.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 15

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.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. Discussion abounds in the development sector today about the best ways to empower the poor. trillion each year , 5% of the global gross domestic product. At BRAC , where I work, we call this subset the “ultra-poor.”

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Microfinance BHAG NGO Participative 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. Over 1,900 beneficiaries have established micro-enterprises for which microfinance has been facilitated.

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Innovation Microfinance Parcell Technology 9

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.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Here are three things that Western investors should want from African entrepreneurs: a focus on the top of the pyramid, control over factors of production, and innovation in distribution rather than in products. Factors of Production. Today his Nice Rice Mill processes 70% of the region’s rice production.

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Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Bank marketing materials focus on the dreams, anxieties and goals of consumers. The pharmaceutical industry also creates products with complex interactions and potentially dangerous side effects. Yet unlike in finance, where distributing risk across institutions is the goal, in drug development the focus is on isolating risk.

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Banking Pharmaceuticals Microfinance Risk Management 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Sure, size can often be correlated to maturity, but we want to know that the service, curriculum, or product the organization is offering has a significant impact on the problem it aims to solve. Successful examples of this approach are still rare; most people point to microfinance. I'm not sure either frame is right.

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Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

An estimated 250 funds are actively raising capital in a market that the Global Impact Investing Network estimates at $25 billion. 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.

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Development Microfinance Biotechnology Exit Strategy 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2012

Most companies trying to do business with the 4 billion people who make up the world's poor follow a formula long touted by bottom-of-the-pyramid experts: Offer products at extremely low prices and margins, and hope to generate decent profits by selling enormous quantities of them. Localize and bundle base products.

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Bottom-up Microfinance Price Banking 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. Investors might have a geographic focus: they may care more about developed or developing economies, or a particular country or community.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

And we are often happy to review these start-up plans — which include the typical elements such as a product description, competitive analysis, estimate of market size, and projected financials. The kids develop discipline and focus, but also practical, marketable skills. Marquis found a way to do this. Importance.

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Entrepreneur Planning Taylorism Taylor 10