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. He divides his time between the US and Bamako, Mali.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

However, the company execs and NGO leaders in Beijing tell me that sustainability is still a new pursuit for Chinese companies. Comments The Buzz on Green Business in China I visited Beijing last week, speaking to a group of corporate executives assembled by a major NGO to work on climate change issues.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

Who, for instance, would have guessed that global NGOs spend nearly 80% more to track their finances and employ nearly twice as many finance staff as comparable for-profit multinationals? In time, corporations learned to build the administrative and technical infrastructure needed to manage their sprawling operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

The day before the stark story in the Times appeared, I attended a related conference, the Investor Summit on Climate Risk, held at the UN and run by the NGO Ceres. ” The value of the companies owning and managing those assets, the logic goes, will plummet. Economy Finance Sustainability' degrees Fahrenheit (2 o C).

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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. When I get my nonprofit management degree, that's when I can really start making a difference," we say to ourselves. Because that's what really makes a difference.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Nor did we realize the amount of management time it would require for us to raise this capital as a non-profit organization; precious time that would be taken away from building the product and the infrastructure needed to deliver the product, and to make impact at the scale we had envisioned.

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