Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

By contrast, NGOs rely on the generosity of funders who, for the most part, restrict their investments to specific programs, leaving NGOs starved for general operating support. While successful in appearance, it''s a pattern of growth that starves the operational core. billion NGO with operations in 97 countries.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He had a successful career in ministry and was in good churches, but he felt God calling him to this assignment. She has only been finished her Residency in anesthesia for little over a year and is coordinating international WHO’s and the efforts of the likes of the Clinton Foundation, The UN and othe NGO’s. She’s 37.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Creator of The Situational Coaching Model, author of 5 books including Coaching for Breakthrough Success. Raj Shah – President, The Rockefeller Foundation.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We're years away from the point where doing good will be the accepted norm for successful businesses. If you have the funds, or your company supports such programs, volunteer (with the help of an NGO) to live in a rural village for a week or allow your people to take mini-sabbaticals or secondments with NGOs to work on development projects.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

Quite the opposite is true with the sales and profit budgets of successful corporations. A well-crafted mission statement allows an NGO to operate with focus and discipline. In a nonprofit a clear and effective strategy facilitates attraction of funds and provides the ability to take smart action.

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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. If Roca meets certain goals related to preventing released prisoners from ending up back in jail, the state will repay the investors their principal, with a sliding scale of profit tied to degree of success.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

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. Ascertain the cost of your contribution. Helping is not a free good. Not only does it take time away from your day job but it can exact a toll on your health and family.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

My colleagues Jeff Bradach and Abe Grindle point out that even the most successful social enterprises are reaching only a fraction of the need. The biggest success story in the U.S. Take the issue of youth unemployment. is Year Up , an organization that mentors and trains disconnected youth into living-wage jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

HBR: The idea of partnering with NGOs came up in many of the interviews. Whelan : We’ve seen a sea change in the last 10 years around company and NGO engagement — it’s far more cooperative. How can these relationships be most fruitful? The result will be innovation.

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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."

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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. If you doubt this, take a look at the recent publications list of the World Bank , the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

government withdrew funding from all American NGO's, Yemen-EFE was granted an exemption because it is an entirely local entity. Establishing EFE as a franchise has been an interesting journey, and one that has given me valuable insights into developing a successful social franchise. Organizations are able to setup and scale rapidly.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. Successful examples of this approach are still rare; most people point to microfinance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2015

A good example of a successful program is Shape Up Somerville , a citywide initiative to fight childhood obesity in Somerville, Massachusetts, that led to a 15% reduction in elementary school children’s Body Mass Index. This is critical to create policy change that promotes community-wide health and well-being.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Teaming in NGO s. Staff regularly cycle in and out of treatment centers, making impromptu teaming critical to their success. Similarly, Doctors Without Borders’ West Africa Ebola response has sent 700 international staff to the region and admitted more than 5,200 patients since the beginning of the outbreak.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Decades of hit-or-miss advice from government, companies, and NGO's has reinforced farmers' already skeptical view of new solutions. Ideally we could bring every prospective customer to a successful Driptech installation, but this would be too resource-intensive and especially challenging in new geographies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

To do so, we enlisted one of our NGO partners to teach our IT team how to use geographic information systems (GIS). A wiser approach recognizes benefits like improved reputation, strengthened customer relationships, and a deeper appreciation for an emerging market. We then, in turn, trained local lab workers, who then trained others.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Supporting activists to develop new campaign strategies that can build the capacity of NGO’s, as Campaign Lab does in the U.K. What would boost their chances of success? They know from their own work that a sense of camaraderie and a place to connect, learn, and share challenges can accelerate success.

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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. In the end, the success or failure of this initiative will depend on us.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Despite decades of success fighting ill-health, illiteracy, and poverty, BRAC saw its programs still weren’t reaching women trapped in this chronic cycle of dire poverty. And we may have found a way to do this. BRAC began grappling with the problem of the ultra-poor in the 1990s.

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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. We have found that choosing the right partner allows us to amplify our message and impact.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

This successful project works with 50 refugee doctors each year. Aside from suffering chronic underfunding, Job Centres are not incentivized to do much more than present people with job openings; success can be getting a supermarket to hire an engineer as a checkout clerk. But the number of people that this NGO can place is very small.

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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. To be successful, vendors must go to the topmost echelons of decision-making and ‘show’ the bosses what the bosses are thinking about doing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

.” 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. The “language people use to describe success” should be reflected in “ your LinkedIn profile ,” he adds. Sustain momentum. “It was perfect.

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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.

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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.

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