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

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Leaders of these companies now believe that "doing good" can be a powerful strategy for growing markets, stimulating innovation, motivating employees, tapping into new talent pools, and actually reducing costs. Billions of poor and underprivileged people constitute the largest untapped market in the world. Educate your team.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Investors who have significant money tied up in the fossil fuel industry — every pension and market fund, essentially — are facing a massive risk. And while the new electrified vehicles market is growing fast, it’ll be many years until those technologies dominate. The growing divestment movement, led by the NGO 350.org

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

As globalization began to shift into high gear in the 1980s, corporations grew by opening international outposts to access new markets. They need to come to grips with the unintended consequences of starving NGOs of the resources needed to invest in leadership, management, program evaluation, and integrated systems.

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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. For example, how should companies handle the overuse of natural resources and the reduction in the planet's " biodiversity " (that is, the abundant variation in plant and animal life)?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

To make this happen, a cross-functional team from each market selected ten promising brands and focused on getting initial, measurable results on one of them in 100days.Over the next year, these teams built on the initial results so that the collective gain was over half a billion dollars.

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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. coal market. Hundreds of financial executives gathered, including some heavy-hitters, from state comptrollers to executives from large pension funds to former U.S.

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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. Develop and fund a sales and marketing capability from the outset. Let’s look at each of these.

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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. Amplify the voices of the constituents you seek to serve.

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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

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

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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The Climate Declaration, created by the NGO Ceres as part of its BICEP advocacy group , makes a simple case for action: Taking on climate change will save money, improve efficiency, and drive innovation, all of which will keep America competitive internationally.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

While currently crippled by inadequate infrastructure in many countries, low- and middle-income countries will be the fastest-growing markets for pharmaceuticals and medical devices over the next decade. To do so, we enlisted one of our NGO partners to teach our IT team how to use geographic information systems (GIS). Redefine ROI.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

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. Child sponsorships have been operating since 1953, and all of them share the high-level objective of breaking the cycle of poverty.

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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.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Whether your goal is to tap this enormous, underserved market for a revolutionary new product, or to impact as many people as possible with a novel healthcare intervention , the question is the same. They encourage viral marketing through early adopters. How can you accelerate customer adoption of the best solutions?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

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. Understand your audience : We've been in emerging markets for over 100 years, offering products aimed at the bottom of the pyramid as much as for wealthier consumers.

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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)?

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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

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. Sustainability Supply chain Market research Retail & Consumer Goods' The corporate members include Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, P&G, J&J, Kellogg’s, L’Oreal, and Unilever.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

How does it define its market, or in the case of an NGO or government agency, its central purpose? What is its current place in that market, and what does it want its strategic place to be in the market in the near future and longer term? Research the market, the person, the entity, etc.,

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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 the UK, some NGOs are trying to fill this institutional void.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2015

This NGO has promoted health-related peer support across six continents and has run a number of initiatives that have significantly lowered people’s blood glucose levels, a strong indicator of diabetes risk in developing countries. With our knowledge and position in the market, how can we not do something to help?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. He is authoring an as yet unpublished study comparing these programs to 50 other government and NGO livelihood and cash transfer programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America. At BRAC , where I work, we call this subset the “ultra-poor.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

He highlights the short-term focus of financial markets and of political systems, and also the need to change consumer preferences and habits, as three big areas that need to change at the system level. HBR: The idea of partnering with NGOs came up in many of the interviews. How can these relationships be most fruitful?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. For our study, we focused in detail on 10 ranches participating in the Novo Campo program and on Fazenda São Marcelo, a large ranch that has been Rainforest Alliance certified since 2012, working with the Brazilian NGO Imaflora. Brazil’s Beef Industry.

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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. Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. 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. In Yemen, EFE's local board and staff give the organization credibility, and when the U.S. Organizations are able to setup and scale rapidly. At EFE, support hubs in the U.S. At EFE, support hubs in the U.S.

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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.

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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

Burgeoning middle-classes in South and Southeast Asia provide a growing market for China’s consumer and industrial goods, especially for non-luxury goods that do not need the cache of a U.S. Moving production nearer to those markets makes sense. has been that market been since the Second World War. or European brand.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

That’s understandable — the growth of the consumer mobile market in Africa has been spectacular. 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. In emerging markets, infrastructure is always an issue.

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