Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Or consider Kwabena Darko of Ghana, who helped found that country’s microfinance sector by forging a collaboration between global NGO Opportunity International , his national startup Sinapi Aba , and a myriad of village- and town-based trust groups. Instead of growing their organizations, they need to think about making the problems go away.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance NGO Mission Statement 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. It would license the technology by paying a royalty for every product sold.

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NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

It starts with a trickle : To illustrate this challenge from my own experience, let's look at the example of drip irrigation , a technology that has been around for more than 50 years. This technology has been shown to save water and labor, and to increase yield in a variety of crops. In the trenches : Why is behavior entrenched?

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Early Adopters Payback Period NGO Influence 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

This sustained and sophisticated software scam suggests truly pathological levels of managerial desperation and contempt: desperation around a failed promise of clean diesel technology and unsubtle contempt for unsuspecting regulators and customers alike. Precisely how gullible did these wizards of Wolfsburg think people would be?

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Due Diligence Automotive NGO Incentives 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. And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change. Serious legislation like a carbon tax — even in the U.S.

Chemicals 15

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 15

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

She has only been finished her Residency in anesthesia for little over a year and is coordinating international WHO’s and the efforts of the likes of the Clinton Foundation, The UN and othe NGO’s. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. Sounds like a lifetime of accomplishments in leadership? She’s 37.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program.

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Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But as I’ve done for the last 4 years, I’ll attempt to summarize some of the latest stories about the big environmental and social pressures on business, and how some innovative companies are dealing with them. Food and food waste gets more attention, debate, and innovation: Can cows save the world, or should we make meat in labs?

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Supply Chain Energy McKinsey Apparel 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Obama administration issued new standards to double the fuel economy of cars and trucks , and the National Resources Defense Council (an NGO) proposed using the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from power plants by 25%. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help. In the U.S.,

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

And while almost all the examples I cite are from West Africa, many of these ideas and innovations are well suited for emerging markets around the world. Another example of an infrastructure patch that has already gotten attention in the West is BRCK, the spin-off commercial service from renowned NGO Ushahidi.

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