Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2024

Encourage your employees and stakeholders to contribute so that all levels of your management are engaged in the practice. Work with the NGO to reform the affected after the disaster has passed. Make financial donations for education or healthcare. Alternatively, you can create a foundation with a specific mission.

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CO2

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We received a lot of press, and I was frequently asked to join bank, for profit, and NGO boards. ” In this organization, even if you get all your work done and are proactive on projects because of great leadership and delegation, you would never let anyone know the truth–that you effectively manage your organization and your time.

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NGO Executive Coaching Influence Delegation 79

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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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

But the data, gathered in our new study " Stop Starving Scale " and compared against benchmarks from APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center), hint at a little-known story: most global NGOs today struggle to master the complexities of managing efficient, integrated operations in large part due to restrictions placed on them by funders.

Globalization 10

Globalization NGO Benchmarking Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

But just because your company is not fully evolved on the social change scale doesn't mean that there's nothing you (as a manager) can do. We're years away from the point where doing good will be the accepted norm for successful businesses. How much energy are you consuming? Are you wasting resources such as paper, ink, or other supplies?

Prahalad 15

Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Most major universities now have nonprofit management programs that didn't exist ten years ago. And so a young girl, whose calling — and whose value to the world — may really be to dance, or to build an industry, is hypnotized into becoming the fundraising director for an NGO.

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NGO Armstrong Industry Advertising 21

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Top-down management simply will not get the innovation part of the job done. Teaming in NGO s. During periods of uncertainty and fear it’s tempting to seek shelter under an iron fist management style. Crisis management Leading teams Leadership Healthcare Africa North America'

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Management Health Care NGO Crisis Management 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

As one manager said, "I learned more in 100 days than I had in the previous several years.". Over the next two years, hundreds of such teams around the world helped the company increase revenues while creating further opportunities for growth. Short-term stretch goals also work with community development and not-for-profit initiatives.

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Goal Short-term NGO Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Companies are increasingly seeing the obvious benefits of slashing energy use, and beginning to include in their calculations the considerable risk reduction from managing water well or limiting the use of toxic chemicals. Risk reduction: Managing your nature-sourced supply chain well can help avoid headaches and possible litigation.

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Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2012

Twenty years ago, a citizen might not know the name of a Fortune 500 CEO or NGO director, but they knew the reputation of the institution—and made an assumption that the person chosen to lead it must personify its good qualities. The reflected glory of their institutions.

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NGO Morale Media Reputation 20

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

Furthermore, many nonprofit managers do not instill the discipline in their organizations to use the mission on a regular basis as a tool to make decisions and achieve goals. A well-crafted mission statement allows an NGO to operate with focus and discipline. An effective strategy provides competitive advantage.

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Mission Statement NGO Budgeting COO 15

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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NGO Banking Learning-by-Doing Finance 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Now and then, over the years, a government agency or NGO issues a report that is startlingly insightful and useful. Those of us who don't work in economic development but instead focus on managing our own organizations and teams can take away the same lessons.

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NGO Bottom-up Report GDP 15

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. degrees Fahrenheit (2 o C). That’s $1 trillion per year.

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Discounted Cash Flow NGO Conference Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

The true solution, we think, lies in understanding the changed nature of modern supply chains and identifying new business models better suited for managing them. But however well intentioned the ideas are, this is not the best use of one of the most productive workforces in the world.

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Business Model Supply Chain Compliance Disaggregation 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Across the board we see the top executives of some of the world's largest organizations talking about, taking action on, and defining their success in terms of things that have conventionally been the realm of political leaders and NGO activists. The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers.

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Porter 15

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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NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

When disaster strikes, the NGO would set up pop-up warehouses in those locations to channel relief directly from the manufacturers to the myriad micro sites. More goods get where they need to go and micro sellers remain in business, ready to resume normal operations when the flood is over and the NGOs fold up their tents.

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Supply Chain EBITDA NGO Taylor 8

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.

Health Care 13

Health Care Technology System Library 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Alexandra, a project manager, was asked by her boss to support a leader who has having family issues and needed help doing his work. When Patria, a program leader in an NGO, was asked by her director to help a colleague whose team was having trouble managing its workload, she agreed. Turn a request for help into a negotiation.

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NGO COO Planning Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

To be sure, many international water agencies have left developing countries but those exits tend to reflect a loss of funding or end of a contract — or sometimes a convenient belief that a community water challenge has been solved by simply installing a water system and providing basic community management training.

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Venture Capitalist Exit Strategy NGO Mission Statement 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

It’s a valid question, but disappointingly, almost no NGO can point to evidence of impact. Instead, the NGOs fall back on process measures, like how many schools have been built or teachers hired. By now, three generations and at least three million children have passed through such programs. Have they been effective?

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Trends Development Net Present Value NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. It could be that it attracts employees who care about this issue, or that it makes management more likely to stay in that organization. HBR: The idea of partnering with NGOs came up in many of the interviews. The result will be innovation.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 9

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.

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Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Our ambition is to put “urban diabetes” — type 2 diabetes in cities — on the agenda for people designing and managing cities and for the global health community. Peer-to-peer networks can play an important role in changing people’s ability to manage their own health and equipping them to live with diabetes.

Health Care 8

Health Care NGO Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

feridun akgüngör. ” In the attention economy, the ability to maintain focus and concentration is every bit as important as technical or management skills. Nine or 10 hours have passed but you’ve accomplished only a few of your priorities.

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Sharpe NGO How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. When business is conducted globally, we often have to travel long distances to launch projects, meet with partners, negotiate deals, address crises, manage customer relations, and engage in a variety of other activities on the behalf of our organizations.

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Travel NGO Energy Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. You need techniques of investment and management that can traverse large distances and unimproved roads. For our family, it’s the homecoming routine. I pull up to the house and my son flies out of the car to inspect the box or two on our front stairs.

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Company NGO Long-term Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

It has InsideNGO, which works to improve the operational and management capacity of organizations in the global NGO community. It has the National Council of Nonprofits, a network of groups across the nation which does advocacy work and helps organizations learn from one another to achieve greater collective impact.

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Budgeting NGO Diversity Fixed Costs 8

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. However, social impact and pay-for-success securities could unlock substantial foundation, philanthropic, and NGO assets to buffer the risk for return-seeking capital.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

The collaboration, which the NGO Forum for the Future is managing, has high aspirations. I attended the two main meetings thus far, first in Chicago in 2014 and then in Brooklyn earlier this year. In one room, at the behest of the two big guns of retail, sat the largest consumer product, chemical, and fragrance companies.

Products 8

Products Productivity Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

TSC has evolved into a collaboration of more than 100 of the world’s largest retailers, consumer product companies, and NGO and academic partners. That said, helping all of us as consumers understand which companies are managing their environmental and social impacts best is a good thing.

Products 8

Products Productivity Supply Chain Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Moreover, hiring managers frequently applauded these candidates for being assertive. How does it define its market, or in the case of an NGO or government agency, its central purpose? They strategically framed the narrative around the value of mutual gain that could be achieved by hiring or promoting them.

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Tactics NGO Power Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The government agricultural agency teamed up with NGOs to work with ranchers on sustainable agriculture practices, which focused on no deforestation, more cattle per hectare, reforestation, managing water, biodiversity, soil conservation, reducing waste, and helping to improve the welfare of workers and animals.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Further, how can we engender the rock star aura of American entrepreneurship in places where NGO and government jobs are safer career bets for would-be, could-be, should-be startup founders? Since at least the days of Joseph Schumpeter, the workings of entrepreneurship have captivated academics and business managers alike.

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Microfinance Policies Entrepreneur NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

We can manage without you.’ All in all, “getting laid off is a manageable setback on the scale of human experience,” Lees says. He had spotted the posting online and — through his network of professional contacts — got a personal introduction to the hiring manager. ’ It feels personal.”

How To 8

How To Budgeting Self-aware NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Take the case of Kibreab Kidane, who came to Britain with 20 years’ senior experience in Eritrea as an Accountancy Manager and Auditor. But the number of people that this NGO can place is very small. He had to claim asylum from Eritrea in 2009 because of political persecution. Accommodating cultural differences.

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Learning-by-Doing NGO Marketing Skills 8