Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Peer-to-Peer Microfinance: A Sustainable Solution to Poverty. Our Poor Quality Love Affair. To Our Military: Thank You For Your Service. Publishing The New Advanced Degree Model? Servant Leadership Observer – December 2010. Careers for Servant Leaders. The Value of Making Time for Gratitude. Know Your Social Media Hierarchy.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

Oxfam says it will put the money into local banks that will then lend the dollars on to small businesses that will in turn create "good quality jobs." Some microfinance organizations are also moving out of the purely micro and toward larger lending. But times have changed.

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Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

To gain traction with that upper-middle class — and their disposable income — entrepreneurs need the ability to blend international quality standards with African design. Its shop in the city of Blantyre houses quality Western leather wares with safari trimmings. The goods are expensive, but still cheaper than imports.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

It was a daunting investment, but well worth the quality-of-life improvement. Experiment #5: Microfinance Institutions. In emerging markets, microfinance has been a key economic engine in helping low-income households fund businesses and other important purchases in daily life. Photograph courtesy of BioLite.

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Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

The Drawbacks: A Complex Incentive Structure and the Quality Question. Of course there are limits to this ecosystem-building approach: primarily, getting funders on board and maintaining quality. Second, assuring continued quality while scaling an innovation through other entities can be difficult.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

The Indian study, one of the few high quality studies of microcredit extended to women, found no increase in household spending on clothing, food, or education. In India and Cote D'Ivoire, researchers have seen that as women gain control of their income they do indeed spend more on themselves.

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