Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

A career advisor once told me that those who pursue liberal arts majors and enter finance, consulting or technology are not the exceptions. She is now the core programming director for the Brown Entrepreneurship Program and Head of Design for The Intercollegiate Finance Journal. She's spending the summer in Dhaka doing microfinance.

CEO 70

CEO Microfinance Class Pharmaceuticals 70

Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

A career advisor once told me that those who pursue liberal arts majors and enter finance, consulting or technology are not the exceptions. She is now the core programming director for the Brown Entrepreneurship Program and Head of Design for The Intercollegiate Finance Journal. She's spending the summer in Dhaka doing microfinance.

CEO 70

CEO Microfinance Class Pharmaceuticals 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

This year my organization decided to give an award for "excellence in leadership," and among the elements of excellence we expect to see in the winner, we're putting one criterion front and center: the nominees' commitment to gender diversity in their leadership ranks.

Microfinance 16

Microfinance Diversity Banking Entrepreneur 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Six years ago, David and Donna Allman approached Opportunity with an idea that fell outside our traditional microfinance model: to build a Community Economic Development (CED) program in Nicaragua. We know that microfinance alone will not break the poverty cycle.

Microfinance 9

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As Amar Bhide said in " Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-ups " (a 20-year-old HBR article that is an uncanny precursor to today's "lean startup" meme), traditional business planning processes are less relevant to bootstrappers — where resilience trumps planning and energy trumps experience. Point of Entry and Leadership.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Planning Taylorism Taylor 14