Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

Not many would associate innovation with large, service-oriented nonprofits with decades of history. ” So the Seilers responded by piloting a program called the Pathway of Hope, which focuses on providing case management for families. A critical part was adapting a proven model in a related field: microfinance.

Microfinance 13

Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Although she was poor in resources, she possessed the innovation mindset shared by many game changers: they see and act on opportunities , use "and" thinking to resolve tough dilemmas and break through compromises, and employ their resourcefulness to power through obstacles. Hopeless as her situation was, Shantha engaged in "and" thinking.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Innovation Committee Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Encourage financial entrepreneurship and innovation. Entrepreneurship in financial services has been given a bad rap as one contributor to the economic crisis, but we desperately need innovative financing models for start-ups. We don't innovate in entrepreneurial finance enough in the U.S.:

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Risk management processes don't — but they should. Financial institutions must find innovative ways to understand their consumers' aspirations and actual behavior. Interdependencies: Insufficient understanding of interactions remains a critical issue in financial innovation.

Banking 14

Banking Pharmaceuticals Microfinance Risk Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

That's easier said than done in a world where most product innovations are geared toward the rich. Since water deep in the ground doesn't belong to anybody, we thought of giving loans to organizations of the landless poor to drill and manage deep tube wells and sell the water to rice farmers, who would in turn benefit from higher yields.

Technology 8

Technology Microfinance Banking Document 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Fatigue may be setting in for some Western investors’ interest in African innovation, particularly those that have yet to reap rewards to brag about. A few of these companies manage to transcend national boundaries and scale to a larger size. It has managed to combine international standards with African tastes.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

In 1985 Peter Drucker argued for a shift toward an entrepreneurial society, one where “executives in all institutions…make innovation and entrepreneurship a normal, ongoing everyday activity.” And if you need access to money, crowdfunding platforms and microfinance options make that easier than ever.

Drucker 8

Drucker Microfinance Licensing Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

We recently conducted a literature review of rigorous academic studies of financial service innovations among the very poor to find out what services and products would unlock the most value for those at the bottom of the pyramid. And third, digital platforms can facilitate innovation in product and service design.

Microfinance 15

Microfinance Insurance Banking Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Following Abed's twist on Schumacher — "small may be beautiful, but big is necessary" — it now touches the lives of an estimated 126 million people with healthcare, education, enterprise development, microfinance and a slew of other programs. Today it runs a sprawl of surplus-generating businesses across diverse sectors.

Microfinance 10

Microfinance Follow-up Bureaucracy Self-aware 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

The greedy nature of our work (asking us to wear more hats, to do more, to be always on ), combined with the demands of our personal lives and social pressure to be and focus on just one thing, means we need to learn how to manage our portfolio of different identities and the expectations that come with them. Change how you relate to others.

How To 15

How To Learning-by-Doing Examples Participative 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

.” Laudable as these may be, USAID, the State Department, and other government agencies should really be backing programs that stimulate and support scalable, innovative, job-creating businesses – the kinds of companies that are antidotes to mass unemployment and economic hopelessness, not microfinance.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Policies Entrepreneur NGO 8