Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

We recently conducted a literature review of rigorous academic studies of financial service innovations among the very poor to find out what services and products would unlock the most value for those at the bottom of the pyramid. And third, digital platforms can facilitate innovation in product and service design.

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Microfinance Insurance Banking Bottom-up 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

If you believe the hype, technology is going to help us end global poverty. Berkeley researcher Kentaro Toyama has a blog dedicated to calling out naïve or inappropriate uses of information and communication technologies (ICT). To do that, it's vital that technology be suitable and relevant to the lives of its users.

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Technology Microfinance Banking Document 18

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

The Modern Servant Leader Servant Leadership & Technology. Technology. Technology. Why Technology Managers Make Great Leaders. Peer-to-Peer Microfinance: A Sustainable Solution to Poverty. Technology’s Impact on Employee Morale & Effectiveness. Technology Leaders. Innovation.

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Servant Leader Leadership Microfinance Discount 150

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

If you believe the hype, technology is going to help us end global poverty. Berkeley researcher Kentaro Toyama has a blog dedicated to calling out naïve or inappropriate uses of information and communication technologies (ICT). To do that, it's vital that technology be suitable and relevant to the lives of its users.

Technology 8

Technology Microfinance Banking Document 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

On my last trip to India, I witnessed an innovation experiment, National Agro Foundation (NAF) , that addresses this wicked problem. A large part of NAF’s effort with farmers is to help break their initial emotional barriers to new technologies. Therefore addressing the problem of rural poverty assumes urgency.

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Innovation Microfinance Parcell Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Fatigue may be setting in for some Western investors’ interest in African innovation, particularly those that have yet to reap rewards to brag about. Another reason is that investors are myopically infatuated with snazzy technology. Innovation in Distribution. Top of the Pyramid.

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Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Schumacher, one of the fathers of the Green movement, declared that "small is beautiful" and called for "a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful." Not if it also builds in a capacity for innovation and quick response — that is, pilot, perfect, scale up.

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Microfinance Follow-up Bureaucracy Self-aware 8