Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

And in the absence of industrial farmers and national grocery chains, we would find ourselves in need of a great deal more charity, and a lot further away from the goal of changing the world, to boot. Paradoxically, this new era of limitlessness often serves to limit the imaginations of the young people it attracts.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Tackling climate change — and thus keeping the world inhabitable — is an achievable goal, but it will become prohibitively expensive if we wait to act. The day before the stark story in the Times appeared, I attended a related conference, the Investor Summit on Climate Risk, held at the UN and run by the NGO Ceres. coal market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

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. Yet, if scaling impact is the goal, these skills are essential.

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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. There is no value in duplicating efforts; we'd rather work with others and bring our skills and resources to bear in achieving a shared goal.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Take the example of child sponsorships, highly popular as a marketing tool for many NGOs. It’s a valid question, but disappointingly, almost no NGO can point to evidence of impact. Child sponsorships have been operating since 1953, and all of them share the high-level objective of breaking the cycle of poverty.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Whether your goal is to tap this enormous, underserved market for a revolutionary new product, or to impact as many people as possible with a novel healthcare intervention , the question is the same. They encourage viral marketing through early adopters. How can you accelerate customer adoption of the best solutions?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Ending extreme poverty by 2030 is the BHAG – the big, hairy audacious goal – of our generation. ” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. While skepticism abounds, momentum is on our side, with poverty rates falling in every region of world.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The clean tech markets keep growing fast: three of the world’s biggest economies — the U.S., In addition, electric and hybrid cars are about 4% of US auto sales now, a doubling of market share in the last couple of years. Germany, and Walmart — add lots more renewable energy. came from renewables (solar alone was 72%).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. Deforestation causes up to 10% of global GHG emissions (trees store carbon, which reduces GHG emissions, and release carbon when they are cut or burned), and reducing deforestation is one of the cheaper and easier ways to tackle global climate change goals.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

the utility NRG – which gets the vast majority of its power from fossil fuels — set some remarkable public goals , committing to cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and 90% by 2050. And China took serious action, setting a cap on coal emissions by 2020 , which will help it reach the goals of the carbon agreement with the U.S. (a

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Your goal is get out of your own head with a fun and “active hiatus.” Don’t make any big decisions in those first few days and don’t rush into the job market the day after you’ve received the news. .’” ” During one of these meetings, Paul was introduced to the director of an NGO.

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