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"""... heartfelt manifest...This thoughtful book presents a rare melding of genuine compassion with a businessman's commitment to efficiency and growth...intriguing and...insightful"" -- Publisher's Weekly An ""engaging account..."" -- Fast Company ""This absorbing book tells the story of how Vikram Akula turned an idealistic vision into a thriving business that today serves millions of poor women in India. I have witnessed firsthand how SKS Microfinance has had an amazing impact in India compared to other poverty-reduction programs."" -- Vinod Khosla, Cofounder, Sun Microsystems, and Principal, Khosla Ventures ""...an inspiring autobiographical story of an American of Indian origin who went to India to help the rural poor..."" -- Foreign Affairs"

... heartfelt manifest...This thoughtful book presents a rare melding of genuine compassion with a businessman's commitment to efficiency and growth...intriguing and...insightful -- Publisher's Weekly An engaging account... -- Fast Company This absorbing book tells the story of how Vikram Akula turned an idealistic vision into a thriving business that today serves millions of poor women in India. I have witnessed firsthand how SKS Microfinance has had an amazing impact in India compared to other poverty-reduction programs. -- Vinod Khosla, Cofounder, Sun Microsystems, and Principal, Khosla Ventures ...an inspiring autobiographical story of an American of Indian origin who went to India to help the rural poor... -- Foreign Affairs

  heartfelt manifest...This thoughtful book presents a rare melding of genuine compassion with a businessman's commitment to efficiency and growth intriguing and insightful  Publisher's WeeklyAn  engaging account  Fast Company This absorbing book tells the story of how Vikram Akula turned an idealistic vision into a thriving business that today serves millions of poor women in India. I have witnessed firsthand how SKS Microfinance has had an amazing impact in India compared to other poverty-reduction programs.  Vinod Khosla, Cofounder, Sun Microsystems, and Principal, Khosla Ventures  an inspiring autobiographical story of an American of Indian origin who went to India to help the rural poor  Foreign Affairs

An engaging account... - Fast Company<br><br> This absorbing book tells the story of how Vikram Akula turned an idealistic vision into a thriving business that today serves millions of poor women in India. I have witnessed firsthand how SKS Microfinance has had an amazing impact in India compared to other poverty-reduction programs. - Vinod Khosla, Cofounder, Sun Microsystems, and Principal, Khosla Ventures<br><br>. ..an inspiring autobiographical story of an American of Indian origin who went to India to help the rural poor... - Foreign Affairs<br>

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Vikram Akula is the Founder and Chair of SKS Microfinance, one of the leading microfinance institutions in the world. He is also a sought-after public speaker and in 2006, Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people. Akula launched SKS in 1998 because he saw a fundamental flaw in existing microfinance institutions: their inability to scale to large numbers. A former management consultant with McKinsey & Company, Akula holds a B.A. from Tufts, an M.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and he was a Fulbright Scholar. He has received several awards, including the World Economic Young Global Leader (2008), Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year in India (2006) and the Ernst & Young Start-Up Entrepreneur of the Year in India (2006). He has been profiled in media ranging from CNN to front page of the Wall Street Journal.

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