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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 Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

For example, [Andrew] Liveris talked about the focus Dow [Chemical] has on great chemistry and designing new sustainable product lines and being willing to cannibalize existing products. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms.

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Change the World Without Losing Yourself

Harvard Business Review

How would the charities trying to change the world operate without the manufacturers that make the equipment for their medical clinics, or without General Electric providing them with light bulbs? What difference does industry make, when it creates new products and jobs that make life better for others? Peace of mind? A slow pace?

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Delivering on the Promise of Private-Public Partnerships

Harvard Business Review

As a business that operates in many of the countries where these needs are most evident and pressing, we must help ensure those rights are realized. 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. And our insight is not limited to products.

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It's Not All About Growth for Social Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

Sure, size can often be correlated to maturity, but we want to know that the service, curriculum, or product the organization is offering has a significant impact on the problem it aims to solve. Yet, if scaling impact is the goal, these skills are essential. to prove the goal is much more than size: it's about impact.

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The Big Trends Changing Community Development

Harvard Business Review

Three lines of progress are crossing, and rapidly reshaping how businesses and nonprofits together strengthen the locales in which they operate. 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.

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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%