Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

Across industrial sectors, from healthcare to energy, from construction to retail, engineers are creating new technologies with potentially disruptive implications for the current architectural order of the global economy. One of the technologies, an “ AI doctor ”, shows great promise for the future of healthcare in Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals or the new Sustainable Development Goals , which will be debated at Rio, depends upon the engagement of a wide array of nations, businesses, and citizens, and on the effective use of technologies that place power in the hands of individuals rather than institutions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

Perversely, funders view such high costs as proof that NGOs already spend too much on administration, apparently oblivious to their role in pushing up the very costs they question. The absence of efficient financial management systems reflects comparatively low spending on information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Journalist Justin Gillis wrote about the risk of “severe economic disruption” and “wildly expensive” solutions — ones that may not even exist — if we don’t leverage existing technologies to shift the global economy away from carbon over the next 15 years. Talk of potential risk to humanity is not new. coal market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

As a recent report on the subject from the NGO Ceres said, “According to the IEA, more than two-thirds of the world’s proven reserves of fossil fuels will be unusable prior to 2050 if necessary carbon regulations are enacted [emphasis added].”. The growing divestment movement, led by the NGO 350.org The Stick: Regulation .

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Dara Dotz is removing obstacles to rapid recovery in humanitarian disasters with her NGO, Field Ready. Rather than relying on slow, expensive supply chains to import disaster relief, Field Ready empowers people in disaster-struck areas with the technology and expertise to make life-saving and life-sustaining supplies onsite.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It would license the technology by paying a royalty for every product sold. 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. Thus far, through this approach, Embrace and Embrace Innovations have helped over 3,000 babies with our product.

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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. Instead of growing their organizations, they need to think about making the problems go away.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. All told, such African technology start-ups attracted $186 million in early stage funding last year. Like many promising new markets, African technology has been the subject of hype. The technology communities of the U.S. The technology communities of the U.S.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Our teams work in partnership to provide technical assistance and training to expand lab workers'' skills, secure pricing agreements to increase access to our products, and design medical technologies appropriate for resource-limited settings. Redefine ROI. We then, in turn, trained local lab workers, who then trained others.

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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. Mobile Messaging: In early 2008, frog embarked on Project Masiluleke, a Public Private Partnership (PPP) to address HIV in South Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Started by the NGO Ceres, as part of its Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP) initiative, the Climate Declaration is a broad statement of intent that acting on climate will be good for our economy and society. So what’s really new this year? Let’s dive in. The Big Picture. What Companies Are Doing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

The day after John Denning* lost his job at a mobile technology company outside Boston, he took a long weekend in Maine. ” During one of these meetings, Paul was introduced to the director of an NGO. Neglect your wellbeing — make sure you’re eating well, exercising, and getting enough sleep. “It was perfect.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Alex Osterwalder – Co-founder Strategyzer. Entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

A key point: in a world that will spend $90 trillion on infrastructure over the next 15 years anyway, the additional costs to shift that build-out to a low-carbon path, with technologies we already have, will be minimal. ” But the Bank of England begs to differ , saying that the “vast majority of reserves are unburnable.”

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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%. Keeping the apparel theme, um, running, check out Nike's new shoe with FlyKnit technology. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

technology companies — that use China as a source of assembly, semi-manufactures or components have an additional vulnerability: their value chain. national security concerns because they incorporate Chinese technology into their end products. technology company needs. Doing so is neither necessarily easy nor cheap.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

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. Global business Information & technology IT management' 2. The Legacy Vacuum Can Be a Double-Edged Sword.

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