Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

More broadly, it seems to me that learning to see donors themselves, and not only their checkbooks, as critical assets is part of what turns a nonprofit into a social enterprise. It called for leveraging the profits of the global microfinance institution, and coupling them with private investments from the Allmans and their donor network.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Sasikala, a Block Development Officer (BDO), talked to the Kodapattinam villagers about microfinance , only Shantha, of all the villagers, saw the opportunity and took action. Undeterred, Shantha persisted until she persuaded the required number of people to sign up for the microfinance project. At six, Shantha lost her parents.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Innovation Committee Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

These challenges forced BioLite to reevaluate our approach and customize our sales methods to a market that demands an entirely different way of doing business. In short, how do you sell something where large-scale retail channels don’t exist? We would need to proactively get in front of them and bring the stove to life.

Marketing 8

Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

We're more likely to scale up birthing kits that cost less than 50 cents apiece than mobile apps that might diagnose disease; more likely to open one-room schools in rented spaces or even boats , where children sit on the floor and learn to think creatively, than insist that every pupil have Internet access.

Technology 8

Technology Microfinance Banking Document 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. And we may have found a way to do this. Do you give them cash or assets ? 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.”

Microfinance 8

Microfinance BHAG NGO Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

On December 2-3, the United Nations will host a seminar in Sierra Leone on "Strategies and Lessons Learned on Sustainable Reintegration and Job Creation: What Works in West Africa?" From my discussions with many, I know they have seen the "pit of hell" and never want anything to do with it. So how can we do this in a sustainable way?

Microfinance 12

Microfinance Seminar How To Education 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Banks can simulate the pharmaceutical approach, and learn much about consumer behavior and its evolution — without putting customers at risk. The gaming industry has created much of the infrastructure required for both the learning and monitoring required. Watching them play may yield as much insight as looking at their work.

Banking 10

Banking Pharmaceuticals Microfinance Risk Management 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

C2 partnered with Montreal-based start-up E-180 to offer an app through which attendees could share both what they were trying to learn at the event and what knowledge they could impart to others, then use the information to book “brain dates” with each other. Technology also played a big role. C2 Montreal's Creative Networking.

Conference 8

Conference Microfinance Creativity Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

Last summer, Social Enterprise @ Goizueta set out with Village Capital , a peer-based accelerator program, to learn (among other things) whether social entrepreneurs with larger social-media followings are showing greater commercial promise. Nor do we see advantages for entrepreneurs with deep experience or advanced degrees.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Microfinance Media Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Scan the research and you’ll find studies indicating that 50% of young adults who join rebel movements do so because they can’t find a job ; that the likelihood of civil war jumps dramatically with small declines in economic growth ; that “ Arab revolutions. Even this paltry figure overstates the total. .”

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Policies Entrepreneur NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

This is easier to describe than it is to do. In impact investing, we need to find a way to place that same premium on social impact by valuing the public good being created – just like we do in early stage R&D in science, IT, health, and biotechnology. Surely we can do the same for impact investing.

Development 8

Development Microfinance Biotechnology Exit Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2012

Most companies trying to do business with the 4 billion people who make up the world's poor follow a formula long touted by bottom-of-the-pyramid experts: Offer products at extremely low prices and margins, and hope to generate decent profits by selling enormous quantities of them. The price includes the company's cement products.

Bottom-up 10

Bottom-up Microfinance Price Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

And to do that, we need an independent team to go in, get the job done (and get out). They need to learn how to partner with Chinese and Brazilian and Israeli and Egyptian entrepreneurs, and sell to customers everywhere. Do we really want to beat India at developing clean tech, cheap medical devices, and affordable housing?

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

The greedy nature of our work (asking us to wear more hats, to do more, to be always on ), combined with the demands of our personal lives and social pressure to be and focus on just one thing, means we need to learn how to manage our portfolio of different identities and the expectations that come with them.

How To 10

How To Learning-by-Doing Examples Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

These are lessons we've learned from investing $30 million over the last 25 years in 500+ social start-ups about what make a promising social entrepreneur, but they are equally applicable to any entrepreneur. Do they care deeply about this issue or community? Do we understand why? Marquis found a way to do this.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Planning Taylorism Taylor 10