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- October 2008
- Teaching Note
Samoa Tala (TN)
By: Joshua D. Coval, Bhagwan Chowdhry and Konark Saxena
Teaching Note for [209053].
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- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
Course MaterialsBANEX and the ,,No Pago" Movement (A) Shawn Cole and Baily Blair KempnerHarvard Business School Case 211-092 This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to continue investing in a Bolivian View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
renowned for their social responsibility still struggle to overcome this challenge. The focus of my research has been social enterprises, which provide laboratories to learn about the joint pursuit of social and commercial objectives in organizations. In the arenas of...
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by Julie Battilana
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
this tool to optimize impact and financial performance going forward. This case was designed to be taught alongside Root Capital’s Efficient Impact Frontier Simulation exercise. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218084-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
forum, Global Poverty: Business Solutions and Approaches, brings together 120 academics and business, nonprofit, and government leaders from around the world, resulting in a book, an MBA elective course, and an executive education program for leaders in the View Details
- January 2011
- Teaching Note
Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO (TN)
By: Michael Chu
Teaching Note for 308-094.
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Blending Traditional Models of Philanthropy with Business | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
the years, from my time working in microfinance to my current work with high-growth entrepreneurs. Is it socially impactful to support charities or social enterprises that have no path to scalability? Does creating middle-class jobs count...
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- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
that their rivals cannot. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/313105-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-005 Equitas Microfinance (B): Response to the Andhra Pradesh Crisis Supplements case 313-105. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
- Case
YES BANK: Mainstreaming Development into Indian Banking
By: Michael Chu and Namrata Arora
YES BANK, founded in 2003 and highly successful, has consistently been profitable meeting the Indian government's Priority Sector Lending (PSL) requirements, unlike virtually all other private sector banks, which view PSL activity as a necessary but loss-making part of...
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Development Economics;
Private Equity;
Microfinance;
Investment;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Expansion;
Banking Industry;
India
Chu, Michael, and Namrata Arora. "YES BANK: Mainstreaming Development into Indian Banking." Harvard Business School Case 311-063, October 2010. (Revised November 2010.)
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
microfinance and product design to open a new market segment based on the needs of low-income customers. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805064 PublicationsUK Competitiveness: Old...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
interviewing hundreds of microfinance clients around the globe, the authors were able to identify five tools drawn from management accounting where improved knowledge would have a substantial impact including cost management, throughput...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49226 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 315-030 The Emergence of M&A in Microfinance Mibanco, a microfinance icon, is for sale,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
Institutional Voids, Globalization, and Microfinance Institutions By: Liang, Hao, Christopher Marquis, and Sunny Li Sun Abstract—We examine the heterogeneous effects of globalization on the interest rate setting by View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
had no idea what microfinance was.” Firestarter: “The Mexico of tomorrow will be built by the entrepreneurs of today. That’s why Michael and I started IGNIA. Today we’re the largest venture capital firm in Mexico, focused on investing in...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
part of your job? The most satisfying things have been where the United States or our embassy has really helped Morocco: battling locusts, opening a girls’ school in a small rural town, the free trade agreement, the microfinance program....
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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
School Case 510-104 Founded as a for-profit microfinance company, Equitas had acquired nearly a million clients in the short two years since it was founded. The founder, Vasu, and his management team wished to accelerate the already...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808112 SKS Microfinance Harvard Business School Case 208-137 Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the largest and fastest growing View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
through the crowd to lesser-known microfinance borrowers in developing countries. Nanda puts most current crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo in the equivalent of the donation or lending category. Kickstarter began as...
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- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
movement arguments to examine institutional dynamics, said coauthor Johanna Mair, a visiting scholar at Stanford University. The Intra-Organizational Politics of Institutional Complexity is an in-depth case study of the rise and fall of a View Details
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by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-005 BancoSol and Microfinance in Bolivia BancoSol, a microfinance bank headquartered in La Paz, Bolivia, was forced to...
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Dina Gerdeman