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NOVEMBER 18, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

On this 100th International Women's Day , it is right to reflect on how women have become the heart of the microfinance industry. It is easy to forget that the initial motivation for microfinance roughly 30 years ago was, to a great extent, gender neutral. Microfinance is about much more than extending credit. fewer children.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

The Salvation Army’s Pathway of Hope adopted a case-management approach, proven effective in social work, to help families identify barriers to escaping poverty, whether inadequate housing, unemployment, or lack of education. A critical part was adapting a proven model in a related field: microfinance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

She imagined a future when her family would be out of poverty AND her kids would start their adult life educated. 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. She went door to door, pleading and pitching.

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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

MAY 2, 2014

Or consider Kwabena Darko of Ghana, who helped found that country’s microfinance sector by forging a collaboration between global NGO Opportunity International , his national startup Sinapi Aba , and a myriad of village- and town-based trust groups. Instead of growing their organizations, they need to think about making the problems go away.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Following Abed's twist on Schumacher — "small may be beautiful, but big is necessary" — it now touches the lives of an estimated 126 million people with healthcare, education, enterprise development, microfinance and a slew of other programs. Today it runs a sprawl of surplus-generating businesses across diverse sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We wanted to create an immersive experience wherein we could introduce potential customers to our vision of energy everywhere, a place where highly trained and enthusiastic staff could entertain, educate, and entice visitors to the unique benefits of the HomeStove. Experiment #5: Microfinance Institutions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Commercial microfinance organizations are perhaps the best-known hybrid organizations, but social entrepreneurs now use hybrid models to address a diverse set of social issues that includes hunger, healthcare, economic development, environment, education, housing, culture, law, and politics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Risk education: Gaming enables risk education for both banks and users. Popular games also tend to spawn communities who share information and strategies about how to overcome hurdles, suggesting that peer to peer education is also possible (this has been seen in microfinance). Data suggests that these are not sufficient.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

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). Successful examples of this approach are still rare; most people point to microfinance. Yet, there are early indicators that progress toward this approach is being made.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

Hospitals, parks, educational systems, sanitation infrastructure, low-income housing — globally, risk-seeking investors build these solutions in partnership with the public sector, which plays its part to adjust incentives, act as a major customer, and provide subsidy where needed. Surely we can do the same for impact investing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

The Indian study, one of the few high quality studies of microcredit extended to women, found no increase in household spending on clothing, food, or education. In India and Cote D'Ivoire, researchers have seen that as women gain control of their income they do indeed spend more on themselves.

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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. Product : Investments in products or services that have positive social benefits.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Microfinance (Bangladesh), securitization of revenues (Saudi Arabia), and royalty-pay-back funding (Israel) were all invented overseas. Dr. Isenberg has been an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, consultant, and educator, having taught at Harvard, Columbia, Technion, INSEAD, and Reykjavik.

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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 education the school curriculum focuses on traditional subjects taught in traditional ways, and it pushes students into narrow specialties. To be a taxi driver, you need a car and a GPS. There is a common theme here.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

For example, one microfinance organization that is dually devoted to advancing a social mission and being commercial viable says employees are both “social workers” and “bankers.” We interviewed a designer who was part Mexican and part white and worked on social impact projects.

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