Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. Microfinance was one issue that we considered.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

But many entrepreneurs — particularly those in the world's toughest economies — are still battling to secure the cash they need to launch and run their businesses. The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and] But times have changed.

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Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

When social entrepreneurs say that they want to "work themselves out of a job" they are not making a glib statement to sound cool. Commercial entrepreneurs are different. That is why social entrepreneurs were among the most enthusiastic popularizers of concepts like C.K. They're out to standardize a business model.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

For the last two years, we have studied this evolution with our partners at Echoing Green , a fellowship-granting organization that provides seed funding to emerging social entrepreneurs. However, our research reveals that hybrid entrepreneurs are fighting an uphill battle to launch and scale their ventures.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

All to say, the sector is hot, which brings me to the second question: Are social entrepreneurs stoking the right kind of growth? With so many small start-ups, are social entrepreneurs at risk of creating well-intentioned, but fragmented efforts that won’t ultimately change much? million young people out of school and out of work.

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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. On a recent trip, he briefed me on his business plan and on the school's operations with the maturity and confidence of a seasoned entrepreneur.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

Fledgling social entrepreneurs may have a lot of passion, but they usually don't have much of a track record, a circumstance that leaves would-be backers to wonder: Which have the potential to become genuine world-changers? Which are likely to achieve significant social impact within an attractive business model?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. I’d like to see the private sector, philanthropists, and social entrepreneurs throw their weight behind this idea to end poverty for all. At BRAC , where I work, we call this subset the “ultra-poor.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In 2014 we described what Western investors want from African entrepreneurs. We recently interviewed 100 entrepreneurs to find out which ventures are most likely to thrive. A realistic approach to making money might strike some as humdrum. Toyota and Yamaha have found motorbike customers through such social group structures.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. Successful examples of this approach are still rare; most people point to microfinance.

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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. These entrepreneurs are looking for support from risk-seeking investors who have an appetite for failure, are willing to be pioneers, and who value the social returns they’re creating.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Bravo entrepreneurs. Obama has placed real entrepreneurs at the heart of the dialogue, and you appear to be listening to them. As a leader, Obama makes entrepreneurship a top priority, and has consistently promoted entrepreneurs as central economic actors and key to economic recovery. Opportunities and markets are global.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Second, the marketing pitch for focusing on women and girls increasingly is stereotyping men in the effort to combat the stereotyping of women. 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.

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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. Instead, we look at eight broad rules for success, half of which are about the entrepreneur herself (not her business plan). Importance.

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