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micro Home Solutions: A Social Housing Initiative in India
Authors: Kerr, William R.; Brownell, Alexis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2013
mHS is a social enterprise for the provision of affordable housing in India. After India's microfinance industry collapses, mHS needs to reposition itself for continued operations and long-term growth.
Micawber Capital: For Mission or Profit?
Authors: Austen-Smith, David; Burrell, Jeffery C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2012
In July 2010 Robert Drake, senior director at Micawber Capital, one of India's largest microfinance organizations, needed to recommend a corporate structure and organization for Micawber after its scheduled IPO in August 2010. Drake was skeptical that the new investors shared Micawber's commitment to help alleviate poverty in rural India through microcredit loans...
Sustaining a Social Venture: Transformation of Annapurna Mahila Mandal into Annapurna Pariwar
Author: Basargekar, Prema
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business; Indian School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
AMM is a trust that provides micro credit and allied services to poor working women. It was established by a veteran freedom fighter and social entrepreneur and her late husband, a union leader, in 1975 in the wake of a decade-long millworkers' strike in Mumbai. AMM needed to develop a very clear vision as to which direction it should grow in order to become sustainable without losing its focus on the core objective of empowerment of poor women...
My Speech to the Finance Graduates
Author: Shiller, Robert J.
Product Type: Speeches
Source: Project Syndicate
Publication Year: 2012
In this address to graduating Finance students, Robert J. Shiller exhorts students to remember that if they are to succeed, liberal arts will be just as important in their careers as training in financial theory, and that they should never lose sight of the social as well as economic goals of their profession...
Transformational Gaming: Zynga's Social Strategy (A, B, C)
Author: Hartman, Laura Pincus
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2012
In January 2009, Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of the immensely popular and successful Zynga Game Network met with his sister Laura Hartman, DePaul University business ethics professor, to discuss building a new brand of corporate social strategy. Pincus wanted to find a way that Zynga could have a greater social impact on the world. He and Hartman talked about creating a new social strategy that would naturally flow out of Zynga’s success in developing highly profitable interactive social games. The two of them wondered whether it was possible for one company to develop a strategy that would both be profitable and engender social change.
SKS Microfinance: The Sour Taste of Success
Author: Sunderasan, Srinivasan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The initial public offer of SKS Microfinance shares was seen as the initiation of a conflict between the interests of the company’s shareholders and the poor rural borrowers it was expected to serve. The provincial government brought out an ordinance effectively curbing microfinance lending and recovery operations, and the Reserve Bank of India issued a notification placing caps on interest rates, margins and specifying minimum tenures for relatively larger loan sizes. Was this the end of the road for the microfinance movement in India?
Using Business Tools To Combat The World's Big Problems
Author: Miller, Kara
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: WGBH, Innovation Hub
Publication Year: 2012
We talk to experts about the rising tide of social entrepreneurship. Does it have the power to address some of the fundamental problems in society — hunger, health, poverty? And we check in with local companies who are trying to change their communities and the world...
Arbor Days: Trumann Landscaping and ACCION USA
Authors: Fairchild, Gregory B.; Race, Natalie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Trumann Landscaping is environmentally sustainable, experienced, and interested in growth. Sarah Gomez at ACCION USA must evaluate their small business loan application...
CARD Group: Mutually Reinforcing Institutions
Authors: Montgomery, Cynthia A.; Chen, Michael Shih-ta; Lau, Dawn
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Under Dr. Aristotle Alip's leadership, CARD has become one of the top microfinance institutions in the world. Should CARD partner with commercial institutions to reap benefits from their larger sources of capital and technology expertise, or would that mean compromising the original mission of elevating people from the base of the pyramid?
SKS and the AP Microfinance Crisis
Authors: Cole, Shawn; Saleman, Yannick
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
SKS, India's leading microfinance firm, is challenged when politicians declaim microfinance as exploitation of the poor and severely restrict business practices...
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