Nancy Barry

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Nancy M. Barry is the president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, which she founded in September 2006.Wang, Lin (2016). [https://books.google.com/books?id=tOm9BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA60 Poverty Alleviation Investment and Private Economy in China: An Exploration of the Guangcai Programme]. Berlin: Springer. {{ISBN|9783662525005}}. p. 60-61."[http://www.columbiasocialenterprise.org/conference2011/keynote.htm Nancy Barry]" (participant bio). 2011 Social Enterprise Conference. Columbia Business School. Retrieved 2018-03-21. The organization works with corporations, entrepreneurs, and business schools to build business models that engage low-income producers as suppliers, distributors and consumers of products that build income and assets. She was President of Women's World Banking from 1990 to 2006, expanding the organization's network to reach approximately 20 million low-income entrepreneurs and shaping microfinance worldwide.{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/061022/30barry.htm?s_cid=rss:site1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929134413/https://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/061022/30barry.htm?s_cid=rss:site1 |archive-date=2007-09-29 |title=Thinking Big, Lending Small |first=Michael |last=Useem |publisher=U.S. News & World Report. usnews.com |date=October 22, 2006 |access-date=2018-03-21}}{{cite web|url=http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/awards/2005/barry.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914003802/http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/awards/2005/barry.html |archive-date=September 14, 2013 |access-date=2018-03-21 |title=Alumni Achievement Awards, 2005: Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975 |publisher=Harvard Business School. alumni.hbs.edu}} From 1975 to 1990, Barry worked at the World Bank, pioneering small enterprise programs and leading work on industry, trade and finance.

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| name = Nancy M. Barry

| citizenship = American

| education = MBA

| alma_mater = Stanford University & Harvard University

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Education

Barry earned a B.A. in economics at Stanford University, in 1971,"[https://alumni-esc.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=30706 Stanford of the East]". School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences. Alumni magazine. Stanford University. alumni-esc.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-21. and an MBA at Harvard Business School, in 1975.

Honors and awards

Barry is the recipient of a number of awards and honors. She was named to Forbes Magazine's "100 Most Powerful Women in the World" in 2004 and 2005,MacDonald, Elizabeth; Schoenberger, Chana R. (August 15, 2005). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20050731020540/http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2005/0815/046.html The World's Most Powerful Women]", section: "[https://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/11/901Y.html "#98 Nancy Barry]". Forbes. and was among the 20 people named to the listing of "America's Best Leaders" by U.S. News & World Report in 2006. Likewise, she also received an Alumni Achievement Award from the Harvard Business School, in 2005, and the Award for Distinguished Leadership from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, in 2004.Wood, Deborah Leigh (2004). "[http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kwo/sum04/inbrief/barry.htm Nancy Barry wins 2004 Kellogg distinguished leadership award]". Kellogg World (alumni magazine). Kellogg School of Management. Northwestern University. Retrieved 2018-03-21.

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