Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2023

This plan needs to clearly outline your company’s goals, operations, and financial projections. Try to build an understanding of the potential risks and challenges your business may face, as well as how you plan to tackle them. What are some tips for preparing to raise money?

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Upon graduation, the governments, nonprofits, or (more recently) microfinance companies give them loans to buy tools and opens shops. So how can we do this in a sustainable way? We developed a very cheap rechargeable lighting system and a model where a youth can operate a charging station using solar, grid, or human energy.

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Microfinance Seminar How To Education 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the country still dangling from the fiscal cliff, charitable organizations like ours are finding that the individuals and foundations we depend on are more discerning than ever in their choices of how to spend their philanthropic capital. We know that microfinance alone will not break the poverty cycle.

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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Moreover, these customers don’t even know our cookstove exists, so before we even get to delivery, we have to figure out how to help people discover our product. Experiment #5: Microfinance Institutions. If our customers are liquidity constrained and risk averse to purchasing a pricey item, was there a model to solve for that?

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Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

One way to tell the story of mothers2mothers' growth is as follows: since 2001, the organization has expanded its operations to nine countries with an approximately $20 million operating budget. But a real answer requires shifting the conversation from how to grow the organization to how best to increase its impact.

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