Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Alexandra, a project manager, was asked by her boss to support a leader who has having family issues and needed help doing his work. When Patria, a program leader in an NGO, was asked by her director to help a colleague whose team was having trouble managing its workload, she agreed. Turn a request for help into a negotiation.

NGO 8

NGO COO Planning Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

Healthy organizations need both stretch and success to stay alive and vibrant, just like a well-balanced diet includes food that is both tasty and healthy. The key to integrating the two is to carve quick wins out of long-term goals — so that each small success is a building block towards achieving a broader challenge.

Goal 11

Goal Short-term NGO Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We're years away from the point where doing good will be the accepted norm for successful businesses. But just because your company is not fully evolved on the social change scale doesn't mean that there's nothing you (as a manager) can do. Billions of poor and underprivileged people constitute the largest untapped market in the world.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

Furthermore, many nonprofit managers do not instill the discipline in their organizations to use the mission on a regular basis as a tool to make decisions and achieve goals. Quite the opposite is true with the sales and profit budgets of successful corporations. An effective strategy provides competitive advantage.

Mission Statement 14

Mission Statement NGO Budgeting COO 14

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. Then, it looked at those rankings in light of the level of economic success the nations enjoyed. And certainly, many managers already have a broad awareness of the value of knowledge networks.

NGO 13

NGO Bottom-up Report GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. It could be that it attracts employees who care about this issue, or that it makes management more likely to stay in that organization. HBR: The idea of partnering with NGOs came up in many of the interviews. The result will be innovation.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Our ambition is to put “urban diabetes” — type 2 diabetes in cities — on the agenda for people designing and managing cities and for the global health community. Peer-to-peer networks can play an important role in changing people’s ability to manage their own health and equipping them to live with diabetes.

Health Care 8

Health Care NGO Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

At least in my corner of the social enterprise world (the part that focuses on communities'' access to good water), I have yet to see a successful, strategic exit. Every international NGO (INGO) and aid agency involved in water supply has a mission statement along the lines of "we envision a world where no one dies of a water-related disease."

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Exit Strategy NGO Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

Making sustainable products more accessible is a great fit for Target — after all, the company was dubbed Tar-jay years ago after its many successful forays into making high-end design affordable. The collaboration, which the NGO Forum for the Future is managing, has high aspirations.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

TSC has evolved into a collaboration of more than 100 of the world’s largest retailers, consumer product companies, and NGO and academic partners. That said, helping all of us as consumers understand which companies are managing their environmental and social impacts best is a good thing.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Supply Chain Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Across the board we see the top executives of some of the world's largest organizations talking about, taking action on, and defining their success in terms of things that have conventionally been the realm of political leaders and NGO activists. The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

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. Mobile Messaging: In early 2008, frog embarked on Project Masiluleke, a Public Private Partnership (PPP) to address HIV in South Africa.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

We can manage without you.’ All in all, “getting laid off is a manageable setback on the scale of human experience,” Lees says. ” Your goal is to find out what’s going on in a given sector and organization and “learn what success looks like” in it, he says. ’ It feels personal.”

How To 8

How To Budgeting Self-aware NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

This successful project works with 50 refugee doctors each year. Take the case of Kibreab Kidane, who came to Britain with 20 years’ senior experience in Eritrea as an Accountancy Manager and Auditor. But the number of people that this NGO can place is very small. Accommodating cultural differences.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing NGO Marketing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

But, much like improving company culture, turbocharging entrepreneurship ecosystems and supporting (without coddling) startups is an inexact science, where results vary and past performance does not guarantee future success. ANDE and Emory University are investigating what works and what doesn’t across startup accelerator programs.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Policies Entrepreneur NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone. This is where a new financial product, social impact bonds (also known as pay-for-success contracts), can play a role. Pay-for-success could be an appropriate generator of enthusiasm, too.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". In reality, both views were right. In the U.S., a backdoor approach to climate policy took over.

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. Traditional training courses often fly into cultural walls of hierarchy and formality that prevent managers from falling in line.

CRM 8

CRM Marketing Supply Chain NGO 8