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Time to Review the Reputation of Team Building Activities

HR Digest

Finding a local NGO or community that you want to work with is the first step to this team-building activity. Gathering volunteers and making a day out of the experience will be a great bonding experience for everyone involved. What’s not to like? It will also leave everyone with a sense of pride regarding their contributions.

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The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing

Harvard Business Review

This is where a new financial product, social impact bonds (also known as pay-for-success contracts), can play a role. Social impact bonds were conceived to tackle social problems that can be objectively measured, such as recidivism. Insight Center. Innovation in Cities. Corporations might even get involved.

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The 10 Most Important Sustainable Business Stories from 2014

Harvard Business Review

And investors are noticing: in May, Barclays bank downgraded the bonds of the entire U.S. The NGO Ceres has gotten an impressive array of companies to sign onto the Climate Declaration , which states that climate change is both a threat and a major economic opportunity. utility sector. In the U.S., — is seeming possible again.

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Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems

Harvard Business Review

They are notorious for their hours spent thoughtfully connecting people by email and know that the secret is to nudge business partners to become friends, encouraging bonds to form in a deeply human way. Supporting activists to develop new campaign strategies that can build the capacity of NGO’s, as Campaign Lab does in the U.K.

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