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Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
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Marketing Channels (1) Marketing Communications (15) Marketing Strategy (173) Marketing (322) Marketplace Matching (5) Markets (302) Mathematical Methods (10) Measurement and Metrics (16) Media (15) Medical Specialties (5) Mergers and Acquisitions (13) Microeconomics... View Details
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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
the publication of a book, the development of an MBA elective course on Business at the Base of the Pyramid, and the creation of an executive education program for leaders in the microfinance industry. Today, SEI continues to examine the... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
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Equity Bank CEO James Mwangi: Transforming Lives with Access to Credit
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Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
demanding than what the minimalist nature of duties of forbearance initially would suggest. 2014 Working Paper Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization and Microfinance Institutions By:... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
partnering with microfinance and vocational training institutions. FoodSTOP Feyi Boroffice, HBS Opeyemi Boroffice Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up Efficient produce distribution system. Business Track, 2002 FishLogic Javier Segovia... View Details
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Hybrid organizing
By: Julie Battilana
While historically the commercial and social sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, over the last 30 years we have witnessed a blurring of the boundaries between these two sectors. In an effort to account for this transition, Professor Battilana’s second... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
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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
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CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
address lack of health-seeking behavior Packaging of OTC medicines to reflect consumers’ limited spending power A dense network of local distributors to reduce stock-outs Frequent health camps for physicians in rural areas Microfinance... View Details
- 14 Mar 2024
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IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India
to perform work they previously wouldn’t have been able to do (e.g., roti machine with space for a wheelchair). SELCO has also built partnerships with Indian banks and microfinance organizations to enable entrepreneurs and families to... View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
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Launching a Career in Clean Energy
renewables and storage while at HBS? Getting involved with clubs is one of the best ways to meet people outside of your section and connect with people in any industry. I served as a leader for the Microfinance Club and was also involved... View Details
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Global Activities 2020
collaboration, which is leading to meaningful results for a microfinance organization in Santiago, Chile. Middle East & North Africa South Asia Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan Professor Victoria Ivashina introduced... View Details
- 16 May 2005
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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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- 13 Jun 2011
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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... View Details
- November 2022 (Revised October 2024)
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'A Marshall Plan for Africa': James Mwangi and Equity Group Holdings
By: Caroline M. Elkins, Debora L. Spar, Zeke Gillman and Julia M. Comeau
Financial Inclusion. Dignity. Trust. These were the core principles driving James Mwangi’s transformation of Equity Building Society, insolvent in 1991, into what is, today, Equity Group Holdings, East and Central Africa’s largest retail banking institution. Raised in... View Details
Keywords: Income Inequality; Micro Finance; Microcredit; Microfinance; Banks and Banking; Equality and Inequality; Mission and Purpose; Business Model; Social Entrepreneurship; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Africa; Kenya
Elkins, Caroline M., Debora L. Spar, Zeke Gillman, and Julia M. Comeau. "'A Marshall Plan for Africa': James Mwangi and Equity Group Holdings." Harvard Business School Case 323-048, November 2022. (Revised October 2024.)
- 30 Aug 2004
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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... View Details
- 03 May 2010
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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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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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... View Details