Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Upon graduation, the governments, nonprofits, or (more recently) microfinance companies give them loans to buy tools and opens shops. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is a founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology. Across most developing countries, there is a model for job training where youth are assisted to acquire basic skills.

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Seminar Microfinance How To Education 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

A large part of NAF’s effort with farmers is to help break their initial emotional barriers to new technologies. The success of these measures has had a demonstrative impact on the farmers’ willingness to adopt and internalize new technologies. This has provided the platform to launch into other initiatives.

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Innovation Microfinance Parcell Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Schumacher, one of the fathers of the Green movement, declared that "small is beautiful" and called for "a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful." Forty years ago, British economist E.F. These programs were later spun off into stand-alone businesses.

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Microfinance Follow-up Bureaucracy Self-aware 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Or consider Kwabena Darko of Ghana, who helped found that country’s microfinance sector by forging a collaboration between global NGO Opportunity International , his national startup Sinapi Aba , and a myriad of village- and town-based trust groups. Instead of growing their organizations, they need to think about making the problems go away.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance NGO Mission Statement 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Where a solar light can simply be turned on to show its value, a stove demo requires 30 minutes of time and extensive training about the technology. Experiment #5: Microfinance Institutions. Prem, a BioLite Burner on our West India team, gives a HomeStove demonstration to a group of customers at a microfinance branch in Rajasthan.

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Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Another reason is that investors are myopically infatuated with snazzy technology. And across 11 countries Azuri Technologies provides lighting to villagers not connected to the grid by offering solar panels on micropayment plans through a mobile money service. A realistic approach to making money might strike some as humdrum.

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Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Technology also played a big role. ” Leverage technology. When those in the group that had the job givers question pulled off their masks, they discovered that Muhammad Yunus , a Nobel Prize winner for his microfinance work, had been with them, listening carefully to all their suggestions. And it worked.

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Conference Microfinance Creativity Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Currently, impact can mean anything from venture investments in new health technologies to microfinance loans in Peru; from affordable housing in the US to renewable energy in India; from social impact bonds to private equity funds that create jobs.

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Class Microfinance Education Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

There has been a boom in startups, the number of freelancers is growing rapidly, and technology-enabled platforms such as Upwork and Amazon’s MTurk are helping people find work that suits their skills and schedules. Internet technology has essentially democratized entrepreneurialism. To be a taxi driver, you need a car and a GPS.

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Drucker Microfinance Licensing Entrepreneur 8