Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2023

Whether you need to raise money to fund a new startup or to expand an existing business, financing can be a complex process. With so many options available, it can be difficult to know where to begin or which financing option is best for your business. How can I manage my business’s funding effectively once I have raised it?

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Venture Capitalist Finance Microfinance How To 107

Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

Through my classes, I’ve been forced to question the intentions of authors of primary sources, understand biases present within my readings and even my professor, observe the tone of speakers in context to their audience, and seek out further information to support the claims I make when I write my history papers. They are the norm.

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CEO Microfinance Class Pharmaceuticals 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

So far, the Andhra Pradesh (AP) microfinance crisis has largely been viewed as a local issue, with relatively little impact beyond AP or India's borders. Other microfinance crises, in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, and Bosnia, have not spread beyond the borders of a particular country. That could likely have consequences.

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Microfinance Debt to Equity Ratio MFI Crisis 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Personal savings, insurance, credit, cash transfers from family and friends and other financing mechanisms offer promising opportunities to create security and steady employment but they require a nuanced understanding of product design and the local market conditions in order to be effective.

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Microfinance Insurance Banking Bottom-up 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

In low-income countries, according to World Bank data in a recent paper by the consultancy Dalberg, 43% of businesses with between 20 and 99 employees say that access to finance is a major constraint. The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and]

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Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 15

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. These programs were later spun off into stand-alone businesses. Pilot, perfect, scale up.

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Microfinance Follow-up Bureaucracy Self-aware 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 11