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  • 09 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 9, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49226   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 315-030 The Emergence of M&A in Microfinance Mibanco, a microfinance icon, is for sale,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4

Institutional Voids, Globalization, and Microfinance Institutions By: Liang, Hao, Christopher Marquis, and Sunny Li Sun Abstract—We examine the heterogeneous effects of globalization on the interest rate setting by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15

  PublicationsBuilding Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations Authors:Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We explore how new types... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2016
  • News

Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict

Photography by Gary Laufman “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Umaimah Mendhro (MBA 2009) was visiting her native Pakistan, working for a microfinance education nonprofit, when she was tasked with photographing students in a... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • October 2008
  • Teaching Note

Samoa Tala (TN)

By: Joshua D. Coval, Bhagwan Chowdhry and Konark Saxena
Teaching Note for [209053]. View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Risk Management; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Microfinance; Strategy; Borrowing and Debt; Currency; Cash Flow; Samoa
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  • 03 Feb 2018
  • Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
  • 23 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 23

Course MaterialsBANEX and the ,,No Pago" Movement (A) Shawn Cole and Baily Blair KempnerHarvard Business School Case 211-092 This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to continue investing in a Bolivian View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

movement arguments to examine institutional dynamics, said coauthor Johanna Mair, a visiting scholar at Stanford University. The Intra-Organizational Politics of Institutional Complexity is an in-depth case study of the rise and fall of a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
  • January 2011
  • Teaching Note

Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO (TN)

By: Michael Chu
Teaching Note for 308-094. View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Initial Public Offering; Investment Return; Financial Institutions; Microfinance; Capital Markets; Competition; Decisions; Banking Industry; Mexico
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  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-005 BancoSol and Microfinance in Bolivia BancoSol, a microfinance bank headquartered in La Paz, Bolivia, was forced to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

bus. START SMALL, THINK BIG: Clients of Compartamos Banco, a microfinance institution based in Mexico City that funds entrepreneurial activity in the areas of agriculture, crafts, and consumer products and clothing. Courtesy Compartamos... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808112 SKS Microfinance Harvard Business School Case 208-137 Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the largest and fastest growing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

this tool to optimize impact and financial performance going forward. This case was designed to be taught alongside Root Capital’s Efficient Impact Frontier Simulation exercise. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218084-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

real interest rate, compared to the standard 0.3 percent, and was announced as "the best option in the market" for saving. Groups were randomly assigned to one of the three savings options and managed by the Chilean microfinance... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 10 Apr 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

interviewing hundreds of microfinance clients around the globe, the authors were able to identify five tools drawn from management accounting where improved knowledge would have a substantial impact including cost management, throughput... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
  • Case

YES BANK: Mainstreaming Development into Indian Banking

By: Michael Chu and Namrata Arora
YES BANK, founded in 2003 and highly successful, has consistently been profitable meeting the Indian government's Priority Sector Lending (PSL) requirements, unlike virtually all other private sector banks, which view PSL activity as a necessary but loss-making part of... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Private Equity; Microfinance; Investment; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Expansion; Banking Industry; India
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  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

had no idea what microfinance was.” Firestarter: “The Mexico of tomorrow will be built by the entrepreneurs of today. That’s why Michael and I started IGNIA. Today we’re the largest venture capital firm in Mexico, focused on investing in... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

One-on-One with Thomas Riley

part of your job? The most satisfying things have been where the United States or our embassy has really helped Morocco: battling locusts, opening a girls’ school in a small rural town, the free trade agreement, the microfinance program.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Government
  • 06 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

Commerce to help implement technical assistance programs focusing on energy in over 30 countries. She also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica, expanding a microfinance institution and launching a women’s textile cooperative.... View Details