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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Jim Kim – 12th President, the World Bank. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Former Executive VP and Head of Strategy & Transformation at TMB Bank. Sean McGrath – Human Resources Vice-President World Bank Group.

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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact

Harvard Business Review

That year, two global headlines raised the profile of social enterprise: Mohammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace prize. Note: This post is adapted from my remarks at Babson College’s 2014 Lewis Institute Social Innovator Awards. In the broader U.S. Amplify the voices of the constituents you seek to serve.

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The Laws of Money and Meaning

Harvard Business Review

The for-profit sector consists primarily of banks, oil companies, and greedy, soul-sucking corporations. You can run the largest NGO on the planet, and if you're being chicken-s**t, then you've squandered the powerful position you've been given. Even banks make a big difference. You cannot change what the public wants.

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Is Your Economy Built on the World's Best Knowledge?

Harvard Business Review

Now and then, over the years, a government agency or NGO issues a report that is startlingly insightful and useful. If you doubt this, take a look at the recent publications list of the World Bank , the U.S. If you doubt this, take a look at the recent publications list of the World Bank , the U.S.

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Entrepreneurship Needs to Be a Bigger Part of U.S. Foreign Aid

Harvard Business Review

” And the Legatum Institute, when aggregating data from the World Bank, the United Nations, and elsewhere to formulate its Prosperity Index , has found that of its many indicators, “entrepreneurship & opportunity” correlates most strongly with a country’s overall prosperity. We are talking about the U.S.

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The 10 Most Important Sustainable Business Stories from 2014

Harvard Business Review

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. And investors are noticing: in May, Barclays bank downgraded the bonds of the entire U.S. utility sector. Seeing the writing on the wall, German utility E.On

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Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems

Harvard Business Review

To the right, three shiny-suited investment bankers cluster around a banking reform activist in his twenties. This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). The purpose?

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