NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Why Should You Attend?

• To bolster your strategic thinking about serving clients at the base of the pyramid by analyzing real-life cases;
• To re-evaluate your role and the role of your organization in the financial inclusion space;
• To deepen and expand your knowledge of business strategy and management alongside like-minded peers and the foremost thinkers in the field; and
• To raise the caliber of your leadership skills

What to Expect
The intensive six-day Harvard Business School-Accion Program on Strategic Leadership in Inclusive Finance offers leaders from around the world an exceptional opportunity to connect with peers and engage with some of the HBS faculty’s foremost thinkers in business strategy and management. The HBS Executive Education learning model immerses the world’s most promising leaders in a transformational experience that marries the best of strategic thinking with the most important advances in financial inclusion and impact investing.

The HBS-Accion Program is the first executive education program of its kind to provide high-level management and leadership training to those shaping the microfinance industry, including CEOs of leading microfinance institutions and executives of mainstream banks entering the microfinance market.