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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

I started my career in purchasing; migrated to sales and marketing; moved to manufacturing, mining, and then general management in a business operating in 40 countries. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations. billion in the last 5 years).

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To Grow, Social Enterprises Must Play by Business Rules

Harvard Business Review

They need new executive talent, infusions of capital, and systems capable of supporting an expanding organization. For-profit companies in the same situation can turn to a robust venture capital community that is focused on providing the management, financing and strategy that innovative companies need to scale up quickly.

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How One CEO Grows Her Business with Feeling

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, with $60,000 in seed money from the not-for-profit VC organization Echoing Green , and with the Harvard Business School's first social entrepreneur fellowship , Scharpf founded Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE). Managing Emotion Effectively Keeps Business On Track. Emotion Attracts Good People.