Key Takeaways on Overcoming Barriers to Scale from Kurt Dassel and Harvey Koh (Monitor Deloitte)

Kurt Dassel and Harvey Koh provide their key takeaways on business models which have scaled successfully during MPEP Seminar #8, Overcoming Barriers to Scale to Reach the Poor. In this video, Kurt Dassel sets the context on impact enterprises, while Harvey Koh sheds light on how different impact enterprises have successfully overcome various barriers to scale. This seminar was a 'sneak preview' of an upcoming publication based on hundreds of interviews and field research in India and Africa.

Bio: Kurt Dassel, Monitor Deloitte

Kurt Dassel is a Director in Monitor Deloitte’s Emerging Markets practice area and the co-lead for the Regional Economic Competitiveness (REC) practice. In this role, he manages led hundreds of projects in over 30 countries. Dassel works closely with Professor Michael Porter of Harvard through the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC). He has led major quantitative research and tools development efforts focused on economic development, competitiveness, policy and entrepreneurship. As a recognized expert in the field of economic development, Dassel has taught courses on economics and political economy of emerging markets as a Professor at Wellesley College and a Lecturer at Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and a B.A. in Political Economy of Industrial Societies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bio: Harvey Koh, Monitor Deloitte India

Harvey Koh is a Director with Monitor Deloitte India in Mumbai, where he co-leads the Monitor Inclusive Markets (MIM) unit that is dedicated to harnessing business models to serve the poor. In India, he has directed projects facilitating market development around specific business models in the low-income housing and safe drinking water sectors. Prior to joining Monitor Deloitte India, Koh was the founding head of programs at Private Equity Foundation, a venture philanthropy fund established by leading U.S. and European private equity firms to tackle the problem of the youth bulge. Previously, Koh worked with The One Foundation, a major foundation operating in Ireland and Vietnam, and with the London-based advisors New Philanthropy Capital. Koh was born and raised in Malaysia, and was educated at Cambridge University where he studied Economics, Law, and Resource Management.