Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

These "small stretches" also energized participants and helped them develop capabilities as growth leaders. Short-term stretch goals also work with community development and not-for-profit initiatives. Short-term stretch goals also work with community development and not-for-profit initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

This is what is going on now in community development. Take the example of child sponsorships, highly popular as a marketing tool for many NGOs. It’s a valid question, but disappointingly, almost no NGO can point to evidence of impact. Big trends in business and society tend to march along at a measured pace.

Trends 9

Trends Development Net Present Value NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

One large company, Dow, is now tackling this issue, working with the environmental NGO The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to try and make the business logic clearer. It will be fun to watch how Dow navigates this tricky path — while developing the tools for other businesses to follow in their footsteps. is very low in the near-term).

Supply Chain 18

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. adults were at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in 2015. The same is true for social innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

And Bill Gates announced he was shifting his priorities from software development to social impact by moving full time to his foundation. That year, two global headlines raised the profile of social enterprise: Mohammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace prize. In the broader U.S. Lead collaborations, not just organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

To address this, Cape Town-based NGO mothers2mothers employs and trains HIV-positive mothers as "Mentor Mothers" who work alongside nurses and doctors in clinics, providing psychosocial support to pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV. Thirty-five percent of these infections occur in South Africa and Nigeria alone.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And, importantly, it would set up the sales and distribution infrastructure to sell the product to those who could afford to pay for it, while still focusing on bottom of the pyramid markets. While our primary focus is in India, Embrace is doing pilot projects with NGO partners in 10 countries, and we hope to further scale this year.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

As Steve Davis, former lead in McKinsey's Social Innovation practice and president of the global health NGO, Path, has said: "The best social innovations are not necessarily widely adopted. The Shell Foundation provided HPS with market-based expertise and funding to help the company validate and scale its model.

Entrepreneur 9

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

The outcome is delivered on the machine screen with a printout, providing confidence of analysis and further actions which may include prescriptions at participating pharmacies, or escalation for medical attention with NGO doctors who supply anonymous medical treatments. The creators are targeting refugee camps in Europe.

Health Care 13

Health Care Technology System Library 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Without adequate financing, ministries of health and even private hospitals in developing countries often don''t have the resources needed to purchase diagnostic equipment, train workers, and ensure access to appropriate treatment. Resistant forms continue to thrive, and increased travel makes the global threat very real. Redefine ROI.

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

While much has already been written about this challenge in the developed world, there are also some important lessons to be learned from the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP). They encourage viral marketing through early adopters. Instead, we have developed a simple demonstration unit that runs off of a small water jug.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. Two years ago I wrote a book on what succeeds in frontier markets like Africa. ” If you see the world Chris’ way, you can succeed in frontier markets. ” Many sectors are crowded in developed markets, but wide open at the frontiers. What an opportunity.”

Company 8

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

billion people — over half of the developing world's population — lack access to basic sanitation. To tackle threats to the future health and wellbeing of people in need, businesses must partner with governments and NGOs, lending their skills, resources, and reach. Unilever believes these are basic human rights.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. HBR: The idea of partnering with NGOs came up in many of the interviews. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The clean tech markets keep growing fast: three of the world’s biggest economies — the U.S., In addition, electric and hybrid cars are about 4% of US auto sales now, a doubling of market share in the last couple of years. Will we get better at valuing natural capital (and will companies and markets care)?

Supply Chain 13

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

Target and Walmart launched the Personal Care Sustainability Summit last year, and invited the largest players in the $74 billion market for lotions, soaps, and other beauty and grooming products to join them. The collaboration, which the NGO Forum for the Future is managing, has high aspirations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. Discussion abounds in the development sector today about the best ways to empower the poor. At BRAC , where I work, we call this subset the “ultra-poor.” If we’re to end poverty, we can’t ignore them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2015

For these reasons, we need to look beyond the current horizon of those who already have diabetes and get a firmer grip on the even greater proportion of the population — nearly 2 billion people — who are at risk of developing the condition. With our knowledge and position in the market, how can we not do something to help?

Health Care 8

Health Care NGO Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Refugees face specific issues in entering a new labor market that will require investment in dedicated processes. They may have no social networks to build upon and will be unfamiliar with local labor market norms. Interfacing with the job market. In most developing countries, if you have a good degree, you get a job.

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Learning-by-Doing NGO Marketing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Don’t make any big decisions in those first few days and don’t rush into the job market the day after you’ve received the news. So before you make that call, Lees recommends asking your trusted circle for objective feedback on your job market-readiness. .” Go hiking. Go camping. Go kayaking. Don’t.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

government withdrew funding from all American NGO's, Yemen-EFE was granted an exemption because it is an entirely local entity. Establishing EFE as a franchise has been an interesting journey, and one that has given me valuable insights into developing a successful social franchise. Organizations are able to setup and scale rapidly.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

The NGO Ceres has gotten an impressive array of companies to sign onto the Climate Declaration , which states that climate change is both a threat and a major economic opportunity. As the Economist said this year about the fast-growing green bonds market, sometimes “ a market appears out of nowhere.” Tough choices.

Chemicals 15

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Supporting activists to develop new campaign strategies that can build the capacity of NGO’s, as Campaign Lab does in the U.K. Many of our current systems — energy, finance, food — were designed at a different point in history when we didn’t consider how limited resources are.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Lower-wage countries like Vietnam and Cambodia have little spare production or skilled human capacity left, even in relatively low-skilled sectors like textiles and garments, let alone the advanced precision tooling, materials handling, and process engineering and development skills that a U.S. technology company needs. or European brand.

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Chief Financial Officer NGO Technology Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Anyone following developments in the African IT space from afar can be forgiven for thinking that it’s all about the consumer, and that applications and services for business lag far behind. That’s understandable — the growth of the consumer mobile market in Africa has been spectacular. Enterprise IT with an ‘Infrastructure Patch’.

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