Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Although she was poor in resources, she possessed the innovation mindset shared by many game changers: they see and act on opportunities , use "and" thinking to resolve tough dilemmas and break through compromises, and employ their resourcefulness to power through obstacles. She went door to door, pleading and pitching.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Innovation Committee Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

In 2012 the world's problems grew more complex, but America's top 400 charities saw very little growth in their resources to address them. At Opportunity we see experienced, resourced entrepreneurial donors as a major asset for our organization. We know that microfinance alone will not break the poverty cycle.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

And make no mistake: Scaling up a business to affect the lives of tens of millions of people requires a level of capital and resources that far outstrips CSR department budgets and capabilities. The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story.

Microfinance 13

Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Here are some highlights of the outcomes as a result of these NAF interventions: Agriculture productivity improvements through resource conserving “Lean Farming”: Paddy (55%), Groundnut (113%), Vegetables (116%), Sugarcane (40%), and Corn (150%). meters to 5 meters in the project area of over 6,000 hectares.

Innovation 9

Innovation Microfinance Parcell Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. We need to make sure scarce resources are deployed efficiently. At BRAC , where I work, we call this subset the “ultra-poor.” If we’re to end poverty, we can’t ignore them. And we may have found a way to do this.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance BHAG NGO Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

” Laudable as these may be, USAID, the State Department, and other government agencies should really be backing programs that stimulate and support scalable, innovative, job-creating businesses – the kinds of companies that are antidotes to mass unemployment and economic hopelessness, not microfinance.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Policies Entrepreneur NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

David McKenzie's research in Sri Lanka, Mexico, Brazil and Ghana has shown that urban male entrepreneurs typically earn far higher returns from microfinance than women do (in Sri Lanka average returns on capital for women were 0%, for men 10%). Consider the undeniable costs of a caricatured bias toward women.

Microfinance 14

Microfinance Globalization Long-term Class 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Entrepreneurship is hyper-local in that all "species" of entrepreneurs gather around extremely small "watering holes" to draw from the resources (people, ideas, capital, customers) they need to launch and grow. Cities and counties should become the units of analysis, not the nation.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Power Source and Resource Magnetism. Can this person attract money, people, and other resources to their cause? At Echoing Green we've learned that more important than charisma is what we call resource magnetism. Whether or not the entrepreneur has a thousand-watt smile (and it just so happens that Marquis does!)

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Planning Taylorism Taylor 10