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Case
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Reference no. 9-708-441
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2007
Version: 7 May 2009
Length: 25 pages
Data source: Field research

Abstract

PlaNet Finance was a French NGO (non-governmental organisation) providing technical support and training services to microfinance institutions (ie, institutions providing financial services to the poor) and other microfinance actors, rating of microfinance institutions and management, and advisory services to microfinance investors and investment funds. Furthermore, it was creating a network of microfinance banks through a microfinance holding company. However, in a context of rapid change and explosive growth of the microfinance sector, Jacques Attali, the Founder and President, wondered whether PlaNet Finance''s scope was sufficiently broad to fulfill its mission or, on the contrary, whether it needed to be narrowed in order to eliminate organizational challenges and external perceptions of conflicts of interest.
Location:
Industry:
Size:
500 employees, USD7.2 million revenues
Other setting(s):
2007

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Abstract

PlaNet Finance was a French NGO (non-governmental organisation) providing technical support and training services to microfinance institutions (ie, institutions providing financial services to the poor) and other microfinance actors, rating of microfinance institutions and management, and advisory services to microfinance investors and investment funds. Furthermore, it was creating a network of microfinance banks through a microfinance holding company. However, in a context of rapid change and explosive growth of the microfinance sector, Jacques Attali, the Founder and President, wondered whether PlaNet Finance''s scope was sufficiently broad to fulfill its mission or, on the contrary, whether it needed to be narrowed in order to eliminate organizational challenges and external perceptions of conflicts of interest.

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Location:
Industry:
Size:
500 employees, USD7.2 million revenues
Other setting(s):
2007

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