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Cold Call (Harvard Business School)23 minApril 27, 2023
Equity Bank CEO James Mwangi: Transforming Lives with Access to Credit
Hosted by Brian Kenny / Harvard Business Review
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Equity Bank CEO James Mwangi: Transforming Lives with Access to Credit
Episode Summary
James Mwangi, CEO of Equity Bank, has transformed lives and livelihoods throughout East and Central Africa by giving impoverished people access to banking accounts and micro loans. He’s been so successful that in 2020 Forbes coined the term “the Mwangi Model.” But can we really have both purpose and profit in a firm?
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