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> Posted by Elizabeth Davidson
When was the last time you spent a day in a classroom filled with leaders in microfinance? How about an entire week?
Last week, 68 microfinance practitioners, investors, and regulators gathered at Harvard Business School for the 2012 HBS-Accion Program on Strategic Leadership for Microfinance. Hailing from 28 countries and every region of the world, participants had the opportunity to debate the most current and crucial issues in microfinance with colleagues in the industry and professionals from other stakeholder industries that play a role in bringing about financial inclusion around the world. As one of the people behind the scenes in preparing for the course, I was thrilled when the time came to meet the participants in person and sit in on the classroom discussions. Read the rest of this entry »
> Posted by Elizabeth Davidson
The deadline to apply for the 2012 HBS-ACCION Program on Strategic Leadership for Microfinance has been extended to January 31!
This year, the program will take place April 9-14 at the Harvard Business School campus in Boston.
The program is tailored to meet the needs of executives of institutions ranging from MFIs to private-sector commercial banks and service providers. In the past six years, the HBS-ACCION Program has been attended by over 100 executives from some of the world’s most prominent MFIs, including the Grameen Bank, SKS, MiBanco, BRI, Compartamos, and Equity Bank.
Additionally, this year we invite regulators and investors engaged in expanding financial inclusion to apply.
The program will focus on fundamental challenges of doing business in the low-income segment of the financial sector, including:
- succeeding in highly competitive financial sectors
- balancing a social focus with a commercial setting
- reaching new business segments
- evolving products and delivery channels Read the rest of this entry »
> Posted by Anita Gardeva
Participants in the 2009 HBS-ACCION Course on Strategic Leadership in Microfinance
It’s an exciting yet demanding time for microfinance leaders. As the industry matures, leaders have to make clear-headed decisions to steer their institution in the right direction.
The Harvard Business School (HBS) and ACCION are working together to make those decisions easier. The HBS-ACCION Program on Strategic Leadership for Microfinance connects microfinance executives with some of the world’s most experienced professors in leadership and strategy for social enterprises.
As this executive education program enters its seventh year, we’re happy to announce that the application process for 2012 is open. The 2012 program is scheduled to take place April 9th-14th at the Harvard Business School campus in Boston.
In the past six years, the HBS-ACCION Program has been attended by over 100 executives from some of the world’s most prominent MFIs, including the Grameen Bank, SKS, MiBanco, BRI, Compartamos, and Equity Bank. Read the rest of this entry »
> Posted by Center Staff
2009 HBS-ACCION Program on Strategic Leadership in Microfinance
The Harvard Business School-ACCION Program on Strategic Leadership for Microfinance began this week. This is the program’s sixth year of offering industry leaders the opportunity to connect with peers while engaging with some of the Harvard Business School faculty’s foremost thinkers in business strategy and management.
ACCION President and CEO Michael Schlein welcomed participants to this year’s April 25-30 program with these remarks:
Ladies and gentlemen, a very good evening to you all. I’m Michael Schlein, president and CEO of ACCION, and it’s a privilege to welcome all of you here tonight to the Harvard Business School-ACCION Program on Strategic Leadership for Microfinance.
Allow me to extend my warmest welcome, and my thanks, to the more than 60 new students who are with us this week, representing no fewer than 31 different countries.
Believe it or not, this is the sixth consecutive year that HBS and ACCION have been conducting this groundbreaking course. By the conclusion of this week’s class, nearly 400 participants from over 75 different countries will have participated in the training.
A list of graduates of this course would read like a veritable “Who’s Who” of the industry. By my count, more than 158 organizations have sent executives. No fewer than 75 of the participants have been the CEOs of those institutions. So, you are among very good company indeed. Read the rest of this entry »
> Posted by Elisabeth Rhyne
2009 HBS-ACCION Program on Strategic Leadership in Microfinance
I’m writing today from the HBS-ACCION Program for Strategic Leadership in Microfinance, where 70 microfinance leaders from 28 countries have come together to think with some of the top business professors in the world about how to move their MFIs into the future.
I love the first half of the program, where cases from the business world turn out to have surprising applications for microfinance. So far, we’ve looked at Grupo Elektra (Mexico), which built a financial services business for the lower-middle segment from a consumer goods retail platform, and I wondered what lessons Elektra has for those who want to use microfinance services as a platform for access to consumer goods (like renewable energy). We’ve looked at Farmacia Similares (also Mexico), exploring the art of combining client need with realism about what is possible to provide and coming out with a successful product design. We’ve looked at Read the rest of this entry »
> Posted by Kelley Mesa
The January 15th deadline for the joint Harvard Business School-ACCION Program on Strategic Leadership for Microfinance is quickly approaching!
For the fourth year, this course marries the best in strategic business thinking with the most important advances in microfinance through:
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An intensive immersion into the microfinance industry and the operations of leading microfinance institutions.
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Addressing key challenges of doing business at the base of the financial sector, including succeeding in highly competitive financial sectors, maintaining a social focus in a commercial setting, and evolving products and delivery channels.
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Engaging participants in discussing the experience of leading institutions through the case method approach, pioneered by HBS.
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Reviewing some of the most recent developments in microfinance, such as the Compartamos IPO and a video on the operations at ACCION partner, Mibanco, in Peru.
Executives from microfinance institutions, private sector commercial banks, service providers interested in expanding finance to underserved clients around the world are invited to apply now. Click here to learn more about the program details and admission requirements.
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