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5 Lessons from an Office on the Edge

Mills Scofield

For the last three years, I have satiated this string of my DNA with an unconventional job – as Executive Director of a small NGO addressing maternal and child survival in slums of Mali, West Africa, where health outcomes are among the lowest in the world. To find success, we have to fail. Which carries greater risk.

NGO 175
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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Creator of The Situational Coaching Model, author of 5 books including Coaching for Breakthrough Success.

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Europe Can Find Better Ways to Get Refugees into Workforces

Harvard Business Review

Unfavorable demographics, with the aging of the baby boomers and low birth rates, also represents an economic time bomb for countries whose public retirement systems rely on current contributions to finance current pension obligations. This successful project works with 50 refugee doctors each year. Accommodating cultural differences.

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The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing

Harvard Business Review

In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole. This is where a new financial product, social impact bonds (also known as pay-for-success contracts), can play a role. Innovation in Cities.

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Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems

Harvard Business Review

Over the course of the evening, 60 people drink red wine and laugh together in the heart of London as they watch an improvisational opera singer sum up the findings of the day: the characteristics of a financial system they would collectively be proud to put their name to. What would boost their chances of success? The purpose?

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