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  • May 2010
  • Teaching Note

Ujjivan: A Microfinance Institution at a Crossroads (TN) (A) and (B)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
Teaching Note for [108057] and [108083]. View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry
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Narayanan, V.G., and Lisa Brem. "Ujjivan: A Microfinance Institution at a Crossroads (TN) (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 110-069, May 2010.
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Loan Officers Impede Graduation From Microcredit: Evidence from a Large Microfinance Institution

By: Natalia Rigol and Benjamin N. Roth
Graduating microcredit borrowers to larger loans can increase livelihoods. We demonstrate that loan officers impede borrower graduation due to common features of their compensation. Through an experiment with one of Chile’s largest microfinance institutions (MFIs), we... View Details
Keywords: Loan Officers; Strategic Behavior; Strategic Disclosure; Microfinance; Financial Institutions; Financing and Loans
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Rigol, Natalia, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Loan Officers Impede Graduation From Microcredit: Evidence from a Large Microfinance Institution." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29427, October 2021.
  • March 2022
  • Article

Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps

By: Ernest Liu and Benjamin N. Roth
Microcredit and other forms of small-scale finance have failed to catalyze entrepreneurship in developing countries. In these credit markets, borrowers and lenders often bargain over not only the interest rate but also implicit restrictions on types of investment. We... View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Financing and Loans
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Liu, Ernest, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps." Review of Financial Studies 35, no. 3 (March 2022): 1141–1182.
  • 2010
  • Chapter

Enamored with Scale: Scaling with Limited Impact in the Microfinance Industry

By: S. M. Datar, M. J. Epstein and K. Yuthas
Keywords: Microfinance; Banking Industry
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Datar, S. M., M. J. Epstein, and K. Yuthas. "Enamored with Scale: Scaling with Limited Impact in the Microfinance Industry." In Scaling Social Impact: New Thinking, edited by Paul N. Bloom and Edward Skloot. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
  • 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
  • October 2024
  • Article

On Why Women-owned Businesses Take More Time to Secure Microloans

By: Goran Calic, Moren Lévesque and Anton Shevchenko
Examining gender differences in business financing reveals important dimensions on which women- and men-owned businesses differ. Although considerable progress has been made in understanding gender differences in mobilizing resources, the role of time in business... View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Gender; Financing and Loans; Equality and Inequality; Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship
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Calic, Goran, Moren Lévesque, and Anton Shevchenko. "On Why Women-owned Businesses Take More Time to Secure Microloans." Small Business Economics 63, no. 3 (October 2024): 917–938.
  • December 2017 (Revised March 2022)
  • Teaching Note

La Ceiba: Navigating Microfinance and Relationships in Honduras (A) and (B)

By: Christine L. Exley, John Beshears and Alison Wood Brooks
Teaching Note for cases 918-014 and 918-015. View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Power; Apology; Negotiation Process; Microfinance; Power and Influence; Situation or Environment
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Exley, Christine L., John Beshears, and Alison Wood Brooks. "La Ceiba: Navigating Microfinance and Relationships in Honduras (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 918-016, December 2017. (Revised March 2022.)
  • 7 Aug 2009
  • Conference Presentation

Organization Building Amid Multiple Institutional Logics: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations

By: Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado
Keywords: Organizations; Microfinance
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Battilana, Julie, and Silvia Dorado. "Organization Building Amid Multiple Institutional Logics: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 07, 2009. (OMT Division.)
  • February 2014
  • Supplement

Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (B)

By: Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin and Marc Shotland
Keywords: Microfinance; Saving; Innovation and Invention; Measurement and Metrics; Product Design; Success; Performance Evaluation; Banking Industry; Philippines
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Ashraf, Nava, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin, and Marc Shotland. "Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 914-002, February 2014.
  • December 2007 (Revised July 2010)
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Who Killed Bhavani Manjula? A Story of Microfinance in Andhra Pradesh (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
Keywords: Microfinance; Complexity; Networks; Andhra Pradesh
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Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Katharine Lee. "Who Killed Bhavani Manjula? A Story of Microfinance in Andhra Pradesh (A)." Harvard Business School Case 508-021, December 2007. (Revised July 2010.)
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Do Group Dynamics Influence Social Capital Gains Among Microfinance Clients? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Urban India

By: Natalia Rigol, Benjamin Feigenberg, Erica Field, Rohini Pande and Shayak Sarkar
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Rigol, Natalia, Benjamin Feigenberg, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, and Shayak Sarkar. "Do Group Dynamics Influence Social Capital Gains Among Microfinance Clients? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Urban India." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 33, no. 4 (Fall 2014): 932–949.
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Doing Bad by Doing Good? Theft and Abuse by Lenders in Inadequately Regulated Microfinance Markets

By: Catherine S. M. Duggan
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Duggan, Catherine S. M. "Doing Bad by Doing Good? Theft and Abuse by Lenders in Inadequately Regulated Microfinance Markets." Working Paper.
  • Research Summary

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Professor Ashraf's research applies insights from psychology, sociology, and economics to understand and affect behavior in development. Her current research interests fall into three broad categories: technology adoption, motivation and incentive design, and... View Details
Keywords: Health; Microfinance; Agriculture; Women's Empowerment
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Chu's research is focused on business and low income sectors, particularly in the use of commercial platforms to deliver what has traditionally been considered public responsibilities. In the last three decades, business models have emerged to meet the underserved... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Microfinance; Base Of The Pyramid; Role Of Profit And Social Impact; Private Sector Development; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Health Care and Treatment; Management; Social Enterprise; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Health Industry; Latin America; North and Central America; Asia; Africa
  • Teaching Interest

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Chu's teaching focuses on businesses providing goods and services to the emerging middle class and low-income sectors that constitute the market below the well-served top of the socio-economic pyramid. In developed countries such as the USA, this may be 40-50% of the... View Details
Keywords: Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Emerging Markets; Low-income; Social Impact; Microfinance; Inclusive Finance; Impact Investing
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

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... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services
  • December 20, 2007
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Profit And Poverty: Why It Matters

By: Michael Chu
Commentary on investing in microfinance View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Profit; Poverty; Financial Services Industry
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Chu, Michael. "Profit And Poverty: Why It Matters." Forbes.com (December 20, 2007).
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Executive Education

By: Shawn A. Cole

Shawn Cole regularly teaches executive education. He has taught in the ACCION microfinance in the HBS-ACCION Microfinance Program on Strategic Leadership, View Details

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In Microfinance, Clients Must Come First

By: Srikant M. Datar, Marc J. Epstein and Kristi Yuthas
In the debate over whether microfinance works, few microfinance institutions articulate what, exactly, their ultimate goals are and how, exactly, they will achieve them. The authors cut through the confusion by mapping a clear theory of change for microfinance. If the... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Focus and Relationships; Social Entrepreneurship; Microfinance; Goals and Objectives; Success; Social Enterprise; Poverty
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Datar, Srikant M., Marc J. Epstein, and Kristi Yuthas. "In Microfinance, Clients Must Come First." Stanford Social Innovation Review 6, no. 1 (Winter 2008).
  • 2005
  • Chapter

Microfinance: The Next Ten Years

By: Michael Chu
A review of the history of commercial microfinance and a view on the key developments in the next decade. View Details
Keywords: History; Microfinance; Financial Services Industry
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Chu, Michael. "Microfinance: The Next Ten Years." In Microbanking: Creating Opportunities for the Poor Through Innovation, edited by A. Pakpahan, E. M. Lokollo, and K. Wijaya. Jakarta: Bank Rakyat Indonesia, 2005.
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