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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. 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.

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New Lessons from Fighting an Ancient Disease

Harvard Business Review

Without adequate financing, ministries of health and even private hospitals in developing countries often don''t have the resources needed to purchase diagnostic equipment, train workers, and ensure access to appropriate treatment. Three people die every minute from tuberculosis — a treatable and largely preventable disease.

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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. They may have no social networks to build upon and will be unfamiliar with local labor market norms.

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The Social Franchise Model Works in Times of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

With deep roots and broad networks in their communities, these leaders mobilize diverse resources and optimize EFE's operations in specific labor, economic, political, and social contexts. government withdrew funding from all American NGO's, Yemen-EFE was granted an exemption because it is an entirely local entity.

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Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems

Harvard Business Review

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). Another example is the Finance Innovation Lab, which hosted the meeting of unusual suspects mentioned above. The purpose?

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The 10 Most Important Sustainable Business Stories from 2014

Harvard Business Review

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. Financing the clean economy. As the Economist said this year about the fast-growing green bonds market, sometimes “ a market appears out of nowhere.”