Author Archive:
Harvey Koh
If this crisis is an opportunity, how do we seize it? – Part 2
In our previous blog, we explained that crises help to create windows of opportunity for systemic change, and that the interplay of innovations across both business models and practices, and market rules, have helped to …
If this crisis is an opportunity, how do we seize it? – Part 1
As we write this, the world is reeling from a calamitous health and economic crisis due to COVID-19. Infection numbers continue to climb, as is, tragically, the death toll from the disease. The economic impacts …
The Business of Doing Good – Anton Simanowitz and Katherine Knotts
Reviewed by Harvey Koh I have to confess to being more than a little sceptical as I picked up this book. The subtitle, Insights from one social enterprise’s journey to deliver on good intentions, worried …
Beyond the Pioneer on tour
Since the launch of Beyond the Pioneer at the Skoll World Forum and Sankalp Forum in early April, we’ve been discussing the report in cities across the US and UK with others – practitioners, funders, …
Carrying on the conversation
When we wrote Beyond the Pioneer, we said that we intended for it to begin an important conversation about how we should best use market-based solutions for social impact. We are thrilled to see that …
Market-Based Solutions: Getting them to Scale
In Tanzania, the number of active users in the mobile money industry grew from just 170,000 in 2009 to over nine million by 2013. The Kenya Tea Development Agency – which is wholly owned by …
Market-Based Solutions: What’s holding them back?
In our previous blog post, we discussed how market-based solutions to poverty, which could have potentially transformative benefits, were proliferating in number yet failing to achieve scale. Click here to read part 1 of the …
Market-Based Solutions: The Unfulfilled Promise
Half the world lives on less than $2.50 a day. That’s over three billion people. Nearly a billion of them entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. Over a …
Bigger, more fun and more serious than ever before: SOCAP12
SOCAP12 was bigger than ever before. Some 1,600 social entrepreneurs, impact investors, funders, advisers and other ‘social capital markets’ participants packed into Fort Mason Center on the San Francisco waterfront by day, and bounced from …
Bigger, more fun and more serious than ever before: SOCAP12
SOCAP12 was bigger than ever before. Some 1,600 social entrepreneurs, impact investors, funders, advisers and other ‘social capital markets’ participants packed into Fort Mason Center on the San Francisco waterfront by day, and bounced from …
