Summer 2008
In two articles about microfinance, the summer 2008 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review covers how microfinance providers are funding the poverty-stricken while also creating revenue for investors, and envisioning a future where high volumes and not high margins provide a solid bottom line. This issue’s cover story, “Achieving Breakthrough Performance,” is devoted to the four simple but effective principles used by outstanding managers as they take their organizations into the rarefied realm of breakthrough performance and lasting change.