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  • 2009
  • Chapter

Small and Medium Firm Lending in Mexico: Lessons and Current Issues

By: Rodrigo Canales and Ramana Nanda
Mexico is often cited as one of the world's most entrepreneurial countries in terms of the percentage of its population that has started or is in the process of starting a business venture. Yet Mexico does not seem to be very friendly to entrepreneurs, as confirmed by... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Competition; Mexico
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  • 26 Apr 2017
  • News

How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

  • August 2021 (Revised February 2022)
  • Case

Lexoo: Building a Long-Lasting Platform (Abridged)

By: Chiara Farronato and Elena Corsi
Lexoo, a UK-based online marketplace for legal services, was facing the strategic choice of how to grow from early start-up to mature platform. Daniel van Binsbergen, Lexoo's CEO, and web developer Chris O'Sullivan, CTO, had set up Lexoo to help Small and Medium-Sized... View Details
Keywords: Legal Services; Marketplaces; Pivot; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Small Business; Service Operations; Decision Making; Legal Services Industry
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  • September 2018 (Revised October 2018)
  • Supplement

Lexoo: Building a Long-Lasting Platform

By: Chiara Farronato and Elena Corsi
Lexoo, a UK-based online marketplace for legal services, was facing the strategic choice of how to grow from early start-up to mature platform. Daniel van Binsbergen, Lexoo's CEO, and web developer Chris O'Sullivan, CTO, had set up Lexoo to help Small and Medium-Sized... View Details
Keywords: Marketplaces; Legal Services; Growth Strategy; Technology Ventures; Pivot; Service Operations; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Small Business; Decision Making; Legal Services Industry
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  • January 2025
  • Case

Untapped Global: Financing Africa's Missing Middle

By: Raymond Kluender and Emanuele Colonnelli
In November 2024, Jim Chu, founder and CEO of Untapped Global, faced mounting internal tensions over the company’s strategic direction. Untapped had developed a data-driven revenue-based financing (RBF) model to address the “missing middle” problem—the $5.2 trillion... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Working Capital; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Microfinance; International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Profit Sharing; Revenue; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Emerging Markets; Mission and Purpose; Small Business; Entrepreneurial Finance; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Nigeria; South Africa; Kenya; Uganda; California; San Francisco
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  • 2024
  • Report

The Economic Benefits of a Public Sector Nano, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (nMSME) Grading Agency: Evidence from Nigeria

By: Saveshen Pillay, Zaakirah Ismail, Anywhere Sikochi and Charles Odii
This is a summary of our working paper exploring the possibility of creating a public sector small and medium enterprise (SME) grading system in Emerging Markets. Using research and insights from ongoing work with the Nigerian government, the first country in Africa to... View Details
Keywords: Credit; Public Sector; Emerging Markets; Small Business; Africa; Nigeria
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  • February 2016
  • Article

Bridging Science and Technology Through Academic-Industry Partnerships

By: Sen Chai and Willy C. Shih
Partnerships that foster the translation of scientific advances emerging from academic research organizations into commercialized products at private firms are a policy tool that has attracted increased interest. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish... View Details
Keywords: Economic Development; Technological Change; Government Policy; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Information Technology; Policy; Technology Industry; Denmark
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  • October 2020 (Revised December 2020)
  • Case

AfricInvest: A Pan-African Investment Platform

By: Victoria Ivashina and Youssef Abdel Aal
The case is set in December 2018, when Ziad Oueslati, co-managing director and co-founder of AfricInvest, a leading pan-African private equity firm headquartered in Tunisia, was reflecting on the future direction of his firm. AfricInvest started as a traditional small... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Strategy; Governance; Financial Services Industry; Tunisia; Africa; Middle East
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  • June 30, 2020
  • Article

Bipartisan Tax-Free Solution to Health Care Financing: Coupling HRAs With a Public Option

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Richard Boxer and James Wallace
A combination of health insurance initiatives by the presumptive 2020 Democratic and Republican presidential nominees could expand health care coverage and significantly reduce costs, without raising taxes. Along the way, the combination could revitalize private... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Financing; Public Option; Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA); Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost Management
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  • 12 Nov 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization, and Microfinance Institutions

Keywords: by Hao Liang, Christopher Marquis & Sunny Li Sun
  • April 2020
  • Case

The Board's Role in Refocusing Bahrain Development Bank

By: Paul M. Healy and Alpana Thapar
In March 2016, Bahrain Development Bank’s (BDB) existing board term came to an end and Khalid Al Rumaihi was appointed the new chairman. Determining a need for change, he immediately overhauled the board and replaced BDB’s long-standing CEO. The new board quickly... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Banking Industry; Bahrain
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  • 20 Jul 2020
  • Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

HRA-Public Option combination, employers that are now compelled to continually raise out-of-pocket expenses to employees to control health care costs will no longer be caught in the middle between the complaints of employees and the demands of dominant health insurance... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance
  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa

operations head at Peak Investment Capital, an SME investment platform in Accra. Doha Tantawy (MBA 2019), a native of Cairo, Egypt, will work as a strategy and business development associate at Misr Radiology Center in Cairo. The chain of... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2021
  • News

Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

competition or another investing network. We took inspiration from our club’s mentorship program and came up with a shorter version, where we could advise startup founders.” Pundrik, Mansukhani, and Ventura lead the club’s New Ventures & View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • Web

IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

is a research-based course. Our objective is to provide students with perspectives and insight into the eighth largest economy in the world. Although it is dominated by SMEs (companies with annual revenues of below 50m make up 82% of the... View Details
  • 29 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

conditions. Our results suggest that receiving funding affects firms' innovative behavior differently depending on the type of firm, where (1) peer-reviewed publications increased significantly more for SMEs and larger projects, (2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

the fact that a large portion of new businesses is created in the informal sector. The authors identify the main obstacle to this area as the country's insufficient access to credit for small entrepreneurs. The chapter is devoted to assessing recent programs adopted in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

issues. This should help big business seeking global markets. At the same time, Biden’s proposals to “build back better—in America” and ensure investment in technology and innovation in all 50 states will provide a shot in the arm for View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Starting Up and Starting Over

entrepreneurial course development. The Management of New Enterprises course of 1947 was joined in the 1950s by Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SME), taught by Frank Tucker and W.A. Hosmer. In 1970, MNE essentially merged with SME and... View Details