microfinance - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Apr 2010
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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

18 Jul 2014
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“The Promise of Microfinance and Women’s Empowerment; What Does the Evidence Say?;”

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

23 Sep 2019
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The $100 Trillion Opportunity: The Race To Provide Banking To The World’s Poor

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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; development; leadership; social issues; management; technology; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Mar 2013
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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

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

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

Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jan 2005
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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

23 May 2019
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Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

Gentera into the largest microfinance firm in the Americas. Rodríguez’s interest in using microloans to invest in developing economies was first sparked at HBS in 1994 when he helped organize the Latin American Conference. Through a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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 Dec 2005
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Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories

microfinance and empowering poor women in more than forty countries to become entrepreneurs and change agents. Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (MBA ’65) The current chairman of The Carlyle Group and the former chairman and CEO of IBM, Lou Gerstner... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

28 Jun 2011
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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

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

24 Mar 2017
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Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named

solve clotting, infection, and clogging issues. Alumnus: Andrew Jones, MBA 1997 Region: Mid-Atlantic US Pawame: Making solar energy affordable in Africa through a microfinance approach using mobile payments. Alumnus: Alexandre Skander... 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

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