Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Its aim is to target an important segment of the labor force, young people who have not received adequate education and training due to various external and internal factors. Across most developing countries, there is a model for job training where youth are assisted to acquire basic skills. That's just one way to address the problem.

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Microfinance Seminar How To Education 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

By February 2016, more than three-quarters of the Central Territory Corps were trained in the new model. A critical part was adapting a proven model in a related field: microfinance. Habitat now advises financial institutions around the world on how to offer small housing loans to help families buy land, build, or improve their homes.

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Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 10

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. From this, we learned that our products require a highly trained representative who can speak to the benefits of our stove in front of customers who are willing to purchase it.

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Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

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. Today it runs a sprawl of surplus-generating businesses across diverse sectors.

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Microfinance Follow-up Bureaucracy Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. Is it better to attach conditions, or do the poor know best how to spend their money? At BRAC , where I work, we call this subset the “ultra-poor.” If we’re to end poverty, we can’t ignore them.

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Microfinance BHAG NGO Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

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. Huge companies like IBM have created programs to train and transition retirees into social sector roles. And is this kind of rapid growth good news?

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Entrepreneur Microfinance NGO Mission Statement 12