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- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
furthering her own organization." Women's World Banking, based in New York, also utilizes a network strategy in its work. When president Nancy Barry (HBS MBA '75) started leading the organization in 1990, it served approximately 50,000 with View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
meant paying a hefty percentage of his wages for bus fare, plus a day of lost work. Click to watch. Safaricom and Vodafone initially built M-PESA, a money-transfer application that resides on a phone's SIM card, as a tool for microfinance...
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- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
working with HBS professor Michael Chu on a microfinance case involving the largest concrete manufacturer in Mexico, CEMEX, and its self-construct housing program for families whose incomes average $3,780 per year. CEMEX has over 80,000...
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- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
and management than I did since we began researching and writing this book. Datar: I am looking at how implementation and execution strategies vary across countries. I'm also continuing my research in microfinance. I am particularly interested in understanding how...
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- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
pyramid so it makes good business sense—not a sense of do-gooding—to go after it." Today, market forces, private-sector know-how, and grassroots initiatives such as microfinance are all being looked to as tools to alleviate poverty....
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by Garry Emmons
- 1 Jul 2007
- Conference Presentation
The Secret of Commercial Microfinance's Sustainability: Turning Social Workers into Bankers or Bankers into Social Workers? Neither
By: Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado
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Microfinance
Battilana, Julie, and Silvia Dorado. "The Secret of Commercial Microfinance's Sustainability: Turning Social Workers into Bankers or Bankers into Social Workers? Neither." Paper presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, European Group for Organizational Studies, July 01, 2007.
- April 1994
- Case
Working Capital: Micro-Enterprise Development Via Peer-Group Lending
By: Bruce R. Scott
Scott, Bruce R. "Working Capital: Micro-Enterprise Development Via Peer-Group Lending." Harvard Business School Case 794-001, April 1994.
- November 1997 (Revised February 1998)
- Case
Finansol: Financiera para Microempresas (Spanish Version)
By: James E. Austin, Roberto Gutierrez, Marc Labie and Enrique Ogliastri
Austin, James E., Roberto Gutierrez, Marc Labie, and Enrique Ogliastri. "Finansol: Financiera para Microempresas (Spanish Version)." Harvard Business School Case 398-073, November 1997. (Revised February 1998.)
- February 2021
- Article
A Dynamic Theory of Multiple Borrowing
By: Daniel Green and Ernest Liu
Multiple borrowing—a borrower obtains overlapping loans from multiple lenders—is a common phenomenon in many credit markets. We build a highly tractable, dynamic model of multiple borrowing and show that, because overlapping creditors may impose default externalities...
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Commitment;
Multiple Borrowing;
Common Agency;
Misallocation;
Microfinance;
Investment;
Mathematical Methods
Green, Daniel, and Ernest Liu. "A Dynamic Theory of Multiple Borrowing." Journal of Financial Economics 139, no. 2 (February 2021): 389–404.
- 11 May 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field
- March 1998 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
Corposol (Abridged Version)
By: James E. Austin
The social enterprise Corposol has become the largest lender to microentrepreneurs in Colombia. Its rapid growth and diversification into other services and geographical areas has created organizational and resource strains.
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Social Enterprise;
Growth Management;
Diversification;
Microfinance;
Financial Services Industry;
Colombia
Austin, James E. "Corposol (Abridged Version)." Harvard Business School Case 398-123, March 1998. (Revised April 2001.)
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
charitable donations like a typical nonprofit would. Commercial microfinance organizations often adopt a hybrid model, for example: they provide business loans to poor people who wouldn't traditionally qualify, but they still depend on...
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by Carmen Nobel
- January 2001 (Revised September 2002)
- Case
First Marblehead Corporation (A)
By: D. Quinn Mills and Matt Salloway
Daniel Meyers, chairman and CEO of First Marblehead Corp., provides financial engineering services to educational institutions. This case deals with the market for student loans.
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- June 2003 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
ACCION International
By: John A. Quelch
ACCION International is a major nonprofit player in microfinance. Reviews the organization's history and evolution, details current activities and relationships within its network, and assesses the organization's challenges moving forward.
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Quelch, John A., and Nathalie Laidler. "ACCION International." Harvard Business School Case 503-106, June 2003. (Revised March 2006.)
- November 1997 (Revised February 1998)
- Case
Finansol
By: James E. Austin, Roberto Gutierrez, Marc Labie and Enrique Ogliastri
Finansol, created to provide loans to micro-entrepreneurs, encountered considerable difficulties after rapidly growing to become the biggest micro-enterprise lender in Colombia. Major restructuring was required to rescue it.
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Restructuring;
Microfinance;
Crisis Management;
Problems and Challenges;
Social Enterprise;
Financial Services Industry
Austin, James E., Roberto Gutierrez, Marc Labie, and Enrique Ogliastri. "Finansol." Harvard Business School Case 398-071, November 1997. (Revised February 1998.)
- 13 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia
conducted behavioral-change experiments in health, agriculture, and microfinance in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. She brings that globetrotting experience to bear when teaching a second-year course called Managing Global...
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- January 2018 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Financial Inclusion at Omidyar Network
By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme and James Barnett
A team of investors at Omidyar Network explore two different investment possibilities in the budding financial inclusion space using their investment framework to consider capital alternatives available for both investments, each of which carries highly divergent...
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Impact Investing;
Micro Finance;
Investment;
Investment Return;
Investment Activism;
Investment Portfolio;
Microfinance;
Africa;
Philippines
Gandhi, Vikram S., Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme, and James Barnett. "Financial Inclusion at Omidyar Network." Harvard Business School Case 318-004, January 2018. (Revised February 2020.)
- July 2019
- Supplement
Omidyar Network's Impact Investment Framework
By: Vikram S Gandhi
A team of investors at Omidyar Network explore two different investment possibilities in the budding financial inclusion space using their investment framework to consider capital alternatives available for both investments, each of which carries highly divergent...
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Impact Investing;
Micro Finance;
Investment;
Investment Return;
Investment Activism;
Investment Portfolio;
Microfinance;
Framework;
India;
Philippines
Gandhi, Vikram S. "Omidyar Network's Impact Investment Framework." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 320-701, July 2019.
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
challenges of cross-border acquisitions. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209022 Ujjivan: A Microfinance Institution at a Crossroads (A) Harvard Business School Case...
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Martha Lagace