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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Operations Group Baring Private Equity.

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Top Leaders of 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have no doubt he will achieve that goal. In other words, instead of viewing this as something to be kept under her control, she reaches out the parents to help participate in succeeding to reach a goal they both share – of helping their child learn how to read. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here.

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The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing

Harvard Business Review

Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. Innovation in Cities. However, social impact and pay-for-success securities could unlock substantial foundation, philanthropic, and NGO assets to buffer the risk for return-seeking capital.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

But I think the interesting part comes when they start to see it as an opportunity for innovations that are financially beneficial as well as socially beneficial. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms. The result will be innovation.

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Change the World Without Losing Yourself

Harvard Business Review

New infrastructures have arisen to support it, from the Stanford Social Innovation Review , TED and Good , to the Social Enterprise Program at Harvard. How would a "social enterprise" like PlanetTran, the hybrid car service, operate without Toyota, who makes the Prius, which constitutes their fleet?

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It's Not All About Growth for Social Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

To address this, Cape Town-based NGO mothers2mothers employs and trains HIV-positive mothers as "Mentor Mothers" who work alongside nurses and doctors in clinics, providing psychosocial support to pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV. This innovation has impact. Conclusion? So what should mothers2mothers' leaders do?

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7%