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Leading For Good

Great Leadership By Dan

I didn’t even bother asking for advice. We were by far the first environmental NGO to move. “I almost fell out of my chair. The opportunity was big: supervise eighty people, a $100 million business, with a much higher profile than transportation. I just took it. I was pumped. I was really a leader and would learn more stuff!

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

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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Change the World Without Losing Yourself

Harvard Business Review

And so a young girl, whose calling — and whose value to the world — may really be to dance, or to build an industry, is hypnotized into becoming the fundraising director for an NGO. Others are from corporate executives feeling a dearth of purpose, and asking for career advice.

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Is VW’s Fraud the End of Large-Scale Corporate Deception?

Harvard Business Review

An eco-NGO, the International Council on Clean Transportation — not formal regulatory review — effectively uncovered the con. In other words, consumers and regulators alike will increasingly get sophisticated information and advice about who might be the next Volkswagen.

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How New Technologies Could Transform Africa’s Health Care System

Harvard Business Review

The blood sample is anonymized and then analyzed by the CareAi AI-based health assistant that references a vast array of medical and diagnosing libraries, dispensing advice with a corresponding rating of confidence.

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If You're Out to Change the World, How Do You Know When to Move On?

Harvard Business Review

It''s much-needed advice. 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." The magnitude of that goal can make the right time to exit seem like "never." That is particularly true in the water sector.

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Accelerating Customer Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Decades of hit-or-miss advice from government, companies, and NGO's has reinforced farmers' already skeptical view of new solutions. Next, we establish credibility by aligning ourselves with local influencers like village leaders or rural dealers, to whom farmers regularly look for advice.