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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. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Raj Shah – President, The Rockefeller Foundation.

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How to Create an Effective Non-Profit Mission Statement

Harvard Business Review

In the private sector, corporations achieve their goals by carefully designing business operations that are reflected in a budget and then regularly reporting on how actual profits compare to that budget. Quite the opposite is true with the sales and profit budgets of successful corporations.

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How Target Is Taking Sustainable Products Mainstream

Harvard Business Review

The company has made significant efforts to improve store operations with their impressive energy efficiency work and the purchase of more solar power than any entity in the U.S. But by and large, for years, Walmart has taken, in my view, a mainly operational, cost-reducing, brand-fitting approach to sustainability.

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It's Not All About Growth for Social Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. The assumption is that company growth is good. Conclusion? This innovation has impact.

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If You're Out to Change the World, How Do You Know When to Move On?

Harvard Business Review

Social enterprises, of course, are organizations designed primarily to yield social versus financial value. At least in my corner of the social enterprise world (the part that focuses on communities'' access to good water), I have yet to see a successful, strategic exit. It''s much-needed advice.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

Toffel : The interesting thing about the risk lens is if everyone started paying attention to risks, I suspect it would lead to both more product innovation and investing in more-resilient operations and supply chains. 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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Can Walmart Get Us to Buy Sustainable Products?

Harvard Business Review

” For the first time, a major retailer is giving prominent shelf space — albeit virtual — to companies operating in a better way. TSC has evolved into a collaboration of more than 100 of the world’s largest retailers, consumer product companies, and NGO and academic partners.