Management Microfinance Operations Organization 
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.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 16, 2011
This year my organization decided to give an award for "excellence in leadership," and among the elements of excellence we expect to see in the winner, we're putting one criterion front and center: the nominees' commitment to gender diversity in their leadership ranks.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 22, 2013
The organization I'm part of, BRAC, is known for going to scale with solutions that are often radically low-tech. At the program's peak, 700 pumps covered 27,000 acres, with the loans constituting 9% of BRAC's total microfinance portfolio. By the end of 1993, half of the pumps were operating at a loss and many loans were in arrears.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 22, 2013
The organization I'm part of, BRAC, is known for going to scale with solutions that are often radically low-tech. At the program's peak, 700 pumps covered 27,000 acres, with the loans constituting 9% of BRAC's total microfinance portfolio. By the end of 1993, half of the pumps were operating at a loss and many loans were in arrears.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 17, 2014
Without those, the institutions managing the billions of sector dollars won’t be able accurately to assess the risks they are taking and, more important, the returns, both financial and social, they hope to generate. We allowed microfinance and the venture capital industry the time and space to develop over a few decades.
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