Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

cents for a sachet that could purify 10 liters, Pur achieved penetration rates of 5% to 10% in its test markets — strong by almost any yardstick — but in 2005 the company gave up on Pur as a business, because the numbers simply hadn't worked. The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story.

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Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

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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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

That year, two global headlines raised the profile of social enterprise: Mohammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace prize. And is this kind of rapid growth good news? You can find the answer to the timing question nestled among the facts that David Bornstein lays out in the preface to his book, How to Change the World.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance NGO Mission Statement 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

A hybrid approach is exemplified by startup Frogtek, which develops software for local shopkeepers in emerging markets to more efficiently track their inventory, leading to better purchasing decisions and greater profits. Hybrids thus risk mission drift, as they may over time start targeting wealthier and more profitable market segments.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

It is unthinkable, for instance, to imagine a social entrepreneur treating research on the health effects of tobacco use the way the tobacco industry, market analysts, and investors did in the 1960s and '70s. They can be more analytical. Prahalad's " bottom of the pyramid ," that began life as academic research.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Supply Chain Prahalad 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. trillion each year , 5% of the global gross domestic product. At BRAC , where I work, we call this subset the “ultra-poor.” If we’re to end poverty, we can’t ignore them. And we may have found a way to do this.

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Microfinance BHAG NGO Participative 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 9

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. As Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo write in their forthcoming Poor Economics , if we want to make an impact on global poverty we have to stop painting the poor, women or men, as cartoon characters.

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Microfinance Globalization Long-term Class 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Infuse Start-Up America with a global perspective. Opportunities and markets are global. Entrepreneurs don't need to help America beat China or Brazil in addressing the needs of customers and markets. We can't mass-produce Silicon Valleys, and its venture capital model does not work in Tucson or Minneapolis.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2012

However, as I discussed in my last post , the model has a fatal flaw: It inevitably requires an impractical penetration rate of the target market — often 30% or more of all consumers in an area. Any business that starts off needing a 30% or higher penetration rate is built on a shaky foundation.

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Bottom-up Microfinance Price Banking 10

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. Everyone agrees that impact investing is on the rise. Intensity and immediacy of impact.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8