microfinance - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Apr 2010
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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?;”

25 Mar 2014
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Microfinance 2.0: different methodology could reshape industry

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 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

01 Jun 2017
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The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop

affordable in Africa through microfinance and mobile payments. Alumnus: Alexandre Skander Allegue, PLDA 18, 2015 Region: Africa Vention: A platform that allows businesses to design and order industrial equipment online. Alumnus: Etienne... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments

Lake Como, people had something to hang these ideas on. The name helped create momentum.” Results helped, too. One of the impact investing movement’s earliest highlights was when Mexican microfinance bank Compartamos Banco completed its... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

19 Jul 2013
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All in Good Time

getting enough of the right calories. It seems counterintuitive, but it's possible to be undernourished and overweight." After HBS, Silbert worked for Women's World Banking, an international network of microfinance organizations, and was... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2010
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Beacon of Liberty

international microfinance institutions, helping them develop their corporate and governance strategies. He is also a photographer and filmmaker. This article is an edited version of a CNN.com article that first appeared on August 11,... View Details

Keywords: Sharjeel Kashmir; Islam; 9/11

12 Feb 2016
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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

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 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 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 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

01 Mar 2013
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A Mission in Motion

Antares cofounder and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu, who is using his experience as a microfinance pioneer to harness markets to create better public health outcomes. When he stepped down as chair of SEI's Advisory Board in 2009, John... View Details

Keywords: summary

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