Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

In the World Economic Forum''s Global Risks 2013 report, the respondents named "rising greenhouse gas emissions" as the third most likely risk to the global economy (after inequity and deficits/debt). Climate Action Partnership ( USCAP ), led mainly by the NGO Environmental Defense.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

That year, two global headlines raised the profile of social enterprise: Mohammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace prize. And is this kind of rapid growth good news? You can find the answer to the timing question nestled among the facts that David Bornstein lays out in the preface to his book, How to Change the World.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance NGO Mission Statement 12

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.

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Discounted Cash Flow NGO Conference Banking 11

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.

Health Care 10

Health Care Technology System Library 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

This has made it increasingly hard, if not impossible, for a global retailer to ensure compliance with standards. Corporate social responsibility Global business Innovation' But producers in many of the newer entrants (such as Bangladesh) tend to be small and highly disaggregated.

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Business Model Supply Chain Compliance Disaggregation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

So the global media have been publishing lots of articles about the significance of Davos , about the moods of Davos , about how to dress for Davos (some of the tips in that one are from my wife, so pay heed). The World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos kicks off tonight. There will be lots more once the conference starts.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

If you have the funds, or your company supports such programs, volunteer (with the help of an NGO) to live in a rural village for a week or allow your people to take mini-sabbaticals or secondments with NGOs to work on development projects.

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Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

To achieve stretch sales goals, the commercial head of a health care company challenged her global team to boost revenues from older brands without losing focus on their primary products. As one manager said, "I learned more in 100 days than I had in the previous several years.".

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Goal Short-term NGO Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Time after time, three issues continue to bedevil global flood relief efforts — lack of advance preparation, lack of attention to floods too small to grab the international spotlight, and lack of economic recovery efforts after the waters abate. — for temporary warehouse sites.

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Supply Chain EBITDA NGO Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2015

To change the alarming rate at which the number of people with the condition is growing globally, a fundamentally new approach is needed that goes beyond the formal health care system. It may lack the immediacy of communicable diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV, but it is a bigger killer globally than all three combined.

Health Care 8

Health Care NGO Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

An eco-NGO, the International Council on Clean Transportation — not formal regulatory review — effectively uncovered the con. Yes, a Fortune 500 company could still deliberately choose to run a multi-billion dollar global fraud. Precisely how gullible did these wizards of Wolfsburg think people would be?

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Due Diligence Automotive NGO Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Resistant forms continue to thrive, and increased travel makes the global threat very real. To do so, we enlisted one of our NGO partners to teach our IT team how to use geographic information systems (GIS). Three people die every minute from tuberculosis — a treatable and largely preventable disease.

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

It’s a valid question, but disappointingly, almost no NGO can point to evidence of impact. There is a growing global awareness that we are not measuring developmental or humanitarian impacts correctly. Corporate social responsibility Generational issues Global business' Have they been effective? But all this has been changing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Only when BRAC, a Bangladesh NGO, recruited and deployed thousands of paid workers to teach villagers how to make it out of ingredients in even the humblest of homes did adoption take off, in the early 1980s. Acumen, a global nonprofit investor in organizations serving the poor, offers online courses on sales planning. A team of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

It has InsideNGO, which works to improve the operational and management capacity of organizations in the global NGO community. It has the National Council of Nonprofits, a network of groups across the nation which does advocacy work and helps organizations learn from one another to achieve greater collective impact.

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Budgeting NGO Diversity Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Now and then, over the years, a government agency or NGO issues a report that is startlingly insightful and useful. However, because of several odd factors (for example: they can't be commercially advertised) these reports often don't come to the attention of many who might actually have some use for their information.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. When business is conducted globally, we often have to travel long distances to launch projects, meet with partners, negotiate deals, address crises, manage customer relations, and engage in a variety of other activities on the behalf of our organizations.

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Travel NGO Energy Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

trillion each year , 5% of the global gross domestic product. He is authoring an as yet unpublished study comparing these programs to 50 other government and NGO livelihood and cash transfer programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America. 5% of GDP over six years.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance BHAG NGO Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

But the impact of the industry on Brazil’s natural resources — and global GHG emissions — has been intense. Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6% of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Teaming in NGO s. The coordination of these groups — the “teaming of teams,” as it were — will be essential in elevating global response and finally turning the tide against the disease.

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Management Health Care NGO Crisis Management 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

To tackle threats to the future health and wellbeing of people in need, businesses must partner with governments and NGOs, lending their skills, resources, and reach. We have found that choosing the right partner allows us to amplify our message and impact.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

But the number of people that this NGO can place is very small. Business has learned how to design and operate lean and mean processes under tough global competition. It provided Kibreab Kidane with relevant accountancy career information and advice and helped him find an internship in a credit union.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Further, how can we engender the rock star aura of American entrepreneurship in places where NGO and government jobs are safer career bets for would-be, could-be, should-be startup founders? ” We know entrepreneurship creates jobs, and we also know employed people promote more stable societies. And this is a budding field.

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Microfinance Policies Entrepreneur NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

One large company, Dow, is now tackling this issue, working with the environmental NGO The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to try and make the business logic clearer. The long-standing, best estimate on the value of ecosystem services has been $33 trillion annually , roughly the same order of magnitude as the global economy.

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Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

PwC’s annual Low Carbon Economy Index report concluded that we must lower global carbon intensity (the amount of carbon produced for every dollar of GDP) by 6% per year until 2100, a percentage point lower than last year’s report recommended. The short story is that we have less room than before. What Companies Are Doing.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

However, social impact and pay-for-success securities could unlock substantial foundation, philanthropic, and NGO assets to buffer the risk for return-seeking capital. As with other pay-for-success programs, the ability to attract pure return-seeking capital may be limited for social impact bonds. Corporations might even get involved.

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Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

Running a franchise — social or not — is complex, but there is much to gain for those that surmount the challenges: Social franchises craft local solutions to global problems. Although unemployment is a global challenge, there is no one-size-fits all solution. What works in Morocco could fall flat in Yemen.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

There will be fewer global value chains and more regional ones. Regional value chains do have an advantage: they are shorter than global ones. The overall effect will be that more value chains will begin and end in China rather than beginning in China and ending in the U.S. One scenario is that the current U.S. technology on U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Over the last two years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its fifth, multi-thousand-page assessment of global climate science. 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.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Supporting activists to develop new campaign strategies that can build the capacity of NGO’s, as Campaign Lab does in the U.K. For starters, we need to find ways to bring the global community of systempreneurs together. What would boost their chances of success? Yet this group hardly know one another.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

After Sandy raged across the eastern coast, Businessweek blared on its cover " It's Global Warming, Stupid." 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%.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

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. But last year, Zimbabwe and the DRC were among Oracle’s fastest growing markets in Africa.

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