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. Networks can be developed consciously or arise in evolutionary fashion; either way, their value is in their production and dissemination of knowledge.

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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 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. Making drip irrigation more affordable and appropriate for these farmers has been one of my main goals in founding Driptech.

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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. 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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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

JANUARY 22, 2015

Ending extreme poverty by 2030 is the BHAG – the big, hairy audacious goal – of our generation. trillion each year , 5% of the global gross domestic product. While skepticism abounds, momentum is on our side, with poverty rates falling in every region of world. 5% of GDP over six years.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

It’s a valid question, but disappointingly, almost no NGO can point to evidence of impact. Improved community health has lowered absenteeism in the work force and increased productivity by a measurable amount higher than the cost of the program itself. Have they been effective?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

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. per kg of beef per hectare. per kg of beef per hectare. Profitability was up by 6.8x.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The company would double the size of its business, he said, by channeling its efforts toward achieving eight ambitious goals by 2020 — among them, doubling the proportion of Unilever's portfolio that meets the highest nutritional standards, and halving the water associated with the consumer use of its products.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Social entrepreneurs often grapple with the decision of whether to establish their organizations as nonprofit or for-profit in order to reach their goals. We were eager to take this product to the disadvantaged communities who desperately needed it. But what if you don't know which model to use, or which would best suit your mission?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Started by the NGO Ceres, as part of its Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP) initiative, the Climate Declaration is a broad statement of intent that acting on climate will be good for our economy and society. What Companies Are Doing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

This is where a new financial product, social impact bonds (also known as pay-for-success contracts), can play a role. These financial products create a risk-bearing financial arrangement between public, private, and nonprofit organizations. Innovation in Cities.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2012

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%. In the U.S., a backdoor approach to climate policy took over. The clean economy continues to explode.

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