Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

For the last three years, I have satiated this string of my DNA with an unconventional job – as Executive Director of a small NGO addressing maternal and child survival in slums of Mali, West Africa, where health outcomes are among the lowest in the world. Real progress however, is more messy and less linear.

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NGO Short-term Delegation Finance 175

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. However, the company execs and NGO leaders in Beijing tell me that sustainability is still a new pursuit for Chinese companies. Besides the meeting itself, I was struck by the considerable focus on green issues in China.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole. Innovation in Cities. The vibrant, sustainable cities of the future will be funded and delivered by creative financing arrangements that encourage collaboration.

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Finance Bond Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

You can run the largest NGO on the planet, and if you're being chicken-s**t, then you've squandered the powerful position you've been given. Consider the overwhelming number of transformative innovations that have come from the for-profit sector. What we should be asking is who people are being. Are you being courageous? Unstoppable?

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NGO Banking Learning-by-Doing Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The for-profit arm, Embrace Innovations, would raise money from venture capitalists — though our first screening criteria would be investors who were aligned with our social mission. Thus far, through this approach, Embrace and Embrace Innovations have helped over 3,000 babies with our product.

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NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). Another example is the Finance Innovation Lab, which hosted the meeting of unusual suspects mentioned above. The purpose?

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System Incubator Supply Chain NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. Financing the clean economy. And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change. — is seeming possible again.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 15