Sunday, February 6, 2011

When Microcredit Won’t Do: How to Grow a Social Business

Soluciones Comunitarias and microconsignment in general is getting a lot of press recently! Greg Van Kirk's article was recently published in innovations. A critique by Brett R. Smith was also included in the Invention-Led Development issue.

Tina Rosenberg just pushed a piece in the NYT's Opinionator, called "When Microcredit Won't Do" and it had so many comments on the site and on Facebook that they had a follow-up article yesterday.

One of my fellow SEC '08-ers got a shout-out in it. Congrats SolCom and SEC! (Thanks, Greg, Bucky, and Melanie for pointing all these out)

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .