Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

But even more so, I believe that deep down, managers and executives feel that getting by on razor-thin margins is the morally correct way to do business among the poor. The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story. Given its flaws, I've often wondered why the low-price, low-margin philosophy has persisted.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

If you believe the hype, technology is going to help us end global poverty. Since water deep in the ground doesn't belong to anybody, we thought of giving loans to organizations of the landless poor to drill and manage deep tube wells and sell the water to rice farmers, who would in turn benefit from higher yields.

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Technology Microfinance Banking Document 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

” Laudable as these may be, USAID, the State Department, and other government agencies should really be backing programs that stimulate and support scalable, innovative, job-creating businesses – the kinds of companies that are antidotes to mass unemployment and economic hopelessness, not microfinance. And this is a budding field.

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Microfinance Policies Entrepreneur NGO 8

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. We allowed microfinance and the venture capital industry the time and space to develop over a few decades. Impact investing has captured the world’s imagination. Social enterprise Venture capital'

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Development Microfinance Biotechnology Exit Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Infuse Start-Up America with a global perspective. Opportunities and markets are global. To be more global, it will help to do more to encourage entrepreneur immigrants ; everyone knows how critical they have been in building some of the most successful American ventures, so let's help them stay here after they get their Ph.Ds.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15

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. Ultimately, asset managers can develop a matrix with financial asset classes (e.g., cash, fixed income, private equity, etc.)

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. And if you need access to money, crowdfunding platforms and microfinance options make that easier than ever. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Internet technology has essentially democratized entrepreneurialism.

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