Strategy Driven
APRIL 4, 2023
This plan needs to clearly outline your company’s goals, operations, and financial projections. You should also prepare some insights about your market and competition. This includes establishing a clear budget, tracking expenses, and regularly reviewing financial reports to ensure that you are on track to meet your goals.
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Conducting market research along with taking the time to do a full competitive analysis as it pertains to your business is vital to the success of your company. What is the population size of the consumers you plan to market to? For more information on market research and competitive analysis, utilize this guide from the SBA.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2018
Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively. Lessons from Microfinance.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 5, 2016
While meeting this challenge is a clear priority for policy makers and donors, it is also a major profit opportunity for commercial players who can solve market failures and create real value. Micro-insurance is not at scale anywhere except when heavily subsidized by government, a market we hope technology may change in the future.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 18, 2016
Moreover, 83% of clients who finished the program achieved their goals related to housing, employment, education, child care, etc. In 2013, Habitat used its frontline calculations to create a new strategic plan aimed at materially affecting the housing deficit through a combination of advocacy and market development.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 4, 2012
The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and] The goal is "to develop sustainable banking products which are more accessible for qualified candidates and women in general." But times have changed.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 11, 2013
Some seek stricter accounting of ROI based on objectively measurable goals and achievements. 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.
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