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- 30 Apr 2010
- News
Microfinance Goes Public
- 22 Apr 2009
- News
Getting Microfinance Right
- 25 Mar 2014
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Microfinance 2.0: different methodology could reshape industry
- 20 Aug 2008
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Microfinance must embrace the free market
- 29 Dec 2019
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Microfinance Spurs Sustained Growth—but Not for Everyone
- 01 Mar 2011
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Turning a Profit by Helping the Poor
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
provide microfinance to entrepreneurs. “People in developing countries grasp technology very quickly, but the big battle is literacy,” she remarks. Creating Web sites that use images and numbers instead of text is one tactic for crossing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
microfinance institutions and banks in developing countries that make small loans to low-income women-and in some instances, men-so that they can build their own business and move beyond poverty. A customer in The Gambia, for example,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
its pragmatic use of the profit motive and market mechanisms to make a sustainable, self-perpetuating, and effective impact on the lives of poor people. When the ACCION opportunity came along, it forced me to confront those late-night musings. Explain the power of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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The Plight of the Global Poor
at the bottom of the 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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
then relatively obscure field of microfinance. As the head of ACCION International, a global microfinance organization, Chu helped develop microfinance into a global weapon against poverty while establishing... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
a microentrepreneur borrows from a microfinance institution, such as ACCION International or Grameen Bank, to pay for a testing kit and eyeglass supplies. The entrepreneur, who also undergoes a one-week training session, will then be able... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
Antares cofounder and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu, who is using his experience as a microfinance pioneer to harness markets to create better public health outcomes. When he stepped down as chair of SEI's Advisory Board in 2009, John... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 01 Dec 2004
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Class of 2004 Gives Fellowship
graduate of Princeton, Shariff is committed to international development. Prior to HBS, she worked with CARE International in Rwanda, primarily on HIV prevention and microfinance targeted at households run by children. “Because of the... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
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 Health. At a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop
affordable in Africa through microfinance and mobile payments. Alumnus: Alexandre Skander Allegue, PLDA 18, 2015 Region: Africa Vention: A platform that allows businesses to design and order industrial equipment online. Alumnus: Etienne... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2009
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Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
currently available brands and use locally sourced materials. The female workers ultimately will become owners of the business through microfinance loans. “Lack of access to pads affects not only the prospects of girls and women, it also... View Details