Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

“Many of our country organizations didn’t even know what the housing deficit was in their country,” said Steven Weir, vice president for Global Programs at Habitat for Humanity International. Next, the organizations looked outside for models that showed evidence of results in related fields.

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Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 9

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. The organization I'm part of, BRAC, is known for going to scale with solutions that are often radically low-tech. Immerse yourself in the details.

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Technology Microfinance Banking Document 18

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

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the country still dangling from the fiscal cliff, charitable organizations like ours are finding that the individuals and foundations we depend on are more discerning than ever in their choices of how to spend their philanthropic capital. We know that microfinance alone will not break the poverty cycle.

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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Schumacher, one of the fathers of the Green movement, declared that "small is beautiful" and called for "a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful." It's not easy, but organizations can do all of the above without staying small, just as BRAC has done.

Microfinance 8

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. The organization I'm part of, BRAC, is known for going to scale with solutions that are often radically low-tech. Immerse yourself in the details.

Technology 8

Technology Microfinance Banking Document 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change. Take, for example, the issue of economic development.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 15

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. At BRAC , where I work, we call this subset the “ultra-poor.” If we’re to end poverty, we can’t ignore them.

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Microfinance BHAG NGO Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Social entrepreneurs have also been some of the most attentive followers of the academic debate between the likes of Mark Pitt and Jonathan Murdoch about whether microfinance really helps reduce poverty. But only to assure themselves that someone will pay enough to make the development of the solution worthwhile.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Supply Chain Prahalad 9

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. My organization, The Bridgespan Group, received 1,800 applications for 18 entry-level positions consulting to nonprofits and philanthropy. Lead collaborations, not just organizations.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance NGO Mission Statement 12

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

MARCH 4, 2013

What does this mean for would-be investors and for the supporters (both individuals and organizations) of social entrepreneurs? Ventures with founders over the age of 40 tend to be less adept at developing their social-media networks, and female entrepreneurs are building stronger social-media presences.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Microfinance Media Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

When organizations talk to my colleagues and me at the Skoll Foundation about growth in staff size, budget size, or client / beneficiary numbers, we often ask "So what?" For us the question is not how do you grow organizations but how do you scale impact? Multiply Impact, Don't Just Grow the Organization.

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Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

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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Development Microfinance Biotechnology Exit Strategy 8

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

CO2

JUNE 4, 2012

My solution was to found a microfinance organization that puts women in a position to create their own destinies and achieve their full potential. It seems that oftentimes when people work in developing countries, they find that the work itself is a journey of self-discovery. Where does one start? Chingwell Mutombu.

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Microfinance Travel Open-book Education 121

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

Crafting and sustaining a multifaceted identity is challenging for todays’ workers and their organizations. “My definition of a yoga teacher is just someone who helps people to develop a full spectrum practice in their life. “I think Christianity doesn’t really tap into the physical part of life.

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How To Learning-by-Doing Examples Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Marquis created an organization called Coaching For Change to engage young Black men as entrepreneurs pursuing business opportunities related to basketball, football, and other sports. Marquis is building his organization in Massachusetts, a far cry from the Los Angeles of his youth. Do they care deeply about this issue or community?

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Entrepreneur Planning Taylorism Taylor 10