Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. Microfinance was one issue that we considered.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

On this 100th International Women's Day , it is right to reflect on how women have become the heart of the microfinance industry. It is easy to forget that the initial motivation for microfinance roughly 30 years ago was, to a great extent, gender neutral. Microfinance is about much more than extending credit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Companies and those that criticize their efforts are not doing D and E consumers any favors by clinging to the low-margin philosophy, which is unable to generate economic returns that are competitive with alternative uses of a company's capital — the true benchmark of business success. The result has been explosive growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

Over the past five years, the program has been successful enough that other territories are adopting it. A critical part was adapting a proven model in a related field: microfinance. .” So the Seilers responded by piloting a program called the Pathway of Hope, which focuses on providing case management for families.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Some of her neighbors had given up all hope and fallen into alcoholism; others exploited their kids with child labor to earn money; still others sacrificed their entire lives in an attempt to get their children out of the vicious circle of poverty—with few successes, despite their sacrifices and heroic efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Given that we’re in the business of clean cooking, we hypothesized that we’d be successful by selling our stoves through these shops. As a crowd-pleaser, the promotion was a success, drumming up customer excitement; as a sales conversion, it fell short. Launch day was a wild success. Here’s the thing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. Despite decades of success fighting ill-health, illiteracy, and poverty, BRAC saw its programs still weren’t reaching women trapped in this chronic cycle of dire poverty. At BRAC , where I work, we call this subset the “ultra-poor.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

The success of these measures has had a demonstrative impact on the farmers’ willingness to adopt and internalize new technologies. Through successful lead farmers, technology transfer has been effected over an area of 10,000 acres with a “Lead Farmer—Lead Village” concept.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Where supply of basic inputs is thin, controlling land and other factors of production is a pathway to success. Firms are realizing what microfinance has known for a while: Local self-policing groups, or village headmen who police honor codes, can hedge cash flows in far-flung places. Factors of Production.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

My colleagues Jeff Bradach and Abe Grindle point out that even the most successful social enterprises are reaching only a fraction of the need. The biggest success story in the U.S. Take the issue of youth unemployment. is Year Up , an organization that mentors and trains disconnected youth into living-wage jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

Social ventures with bigger Facebook networks also were more successful in raising capital: The correlation between number of Facebook likes and capital raised was 0.34. This makes sense to Milaap.org , a social enterprise in Bangalore that crowdsources low-cost capital for microfinance institutions through its online platform.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. Successful examples of this approach are still rare; most people point to microfinance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The success of platforms like Mint.com suggests that there are large numbers of consumers who would like to have better control and tracking of their finances, but are waiting for simple and practical tools to do so. The impact of social networks on individual behavior can also be observed.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

This question is hard to answer because, in the midst of all of this excitement, there aren’t clear success markers for the sector. Second, in addition to time, the sector needs a framework to measure success, one that makes sense of the sector’s inherent diversity. Surely we can do the same for impact investing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

To be more global, it will help to do more to encourage entrepreneur immigrants ; everyone knows how critical they have been in building some of the most successful American ventures, so let's help them stay here after they get their Ph.Ds. Let's show more humility; the English language still doesn't have its own word for entrepreneur.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2012

This "low price, low margin, high volume" model has held sway for more than a decade, largely on the basis of Hindustan Unilever's success in selling Wheel brand detergent to low-income consumers in India. Peer groups also drive up the size of sales transactions: A single sale aggregates the demand of many customers.

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Bottom-up Microfinance Price Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Currently, impact can mean anything from venture investments in new health technologies to microfinance loans in Peru; from affordable housing in the US to renewable energy in India; from social impact bonds to private equity funds that create jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

” Yet, despite Rhimes’ passion and unparalleled success, her deep, single-minded investment in her work drove her to the point of burnout and exhaustion. Collectively, we need to broaden our narratives about what constitutes success. She had stopped enjoying her life. Change how you think about yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Instead, we look at eight broad rules for success, half of which are about the entrepreneur herself (not her business plan). But too many of these organizations fail young people by neglecting to make the connection between athletic success and professional success. Coaching for Change is by no means an established success.

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