Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Dara Dotz is removing obstacles to rapid recovery in humanitarian disasters with her NGO, Field Ready. He had her sit next to the CEO, and enabled her to wander around and ask questions to everyone, including the CEO and the CTO. Do away with hierarchy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

There's seldom much in the way of news generated at Davos, and most people aren't itching to hear a soundbite from CEO or government official rushing between meetings. I take issue with the statement that the world's most important CEOs, celebrities, artists, etc. (The one exception was a video post I did that got lambasted on Gawker.)

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NGO Media Globalization CEO 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2012

Twenty years ago, a citizen might not know the name of a Fortune 500 CEO or NGO director, but they knew the reputation of the institution—and made an assumption that the person chosen to lead it must personify its good qualities. The reflected glory of their institutions. Conditions have changed to make leadership harder.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

A well-crafted mission statement allows an NGO to operate with focus and discipline. Francis Pandolfi has worked with over 40 NGOs as a Board member and a consultant. He was formerly CEO of Times Mirror Magazines and COO of the US Forest Service. An effective strategy provides competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, points to the necessary skill of becoming a leader of teams of teams.Think about the pace of new cancer therapies — and how research center directors lead knowledge sharing between labs across continents and oceans. Amplify the voices of the constituents you seek to serve.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance NGO Mission Statement 13

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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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

It has InsideNGO, which works to improve the operational and management capacity of organizations in the global NGO community. It would fight for the common denominator issues that we all agree on, particularly the need for the donating public to start paying serious attention to impact instead of charity CEO salaries and overhead ratios.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. “Africa is full of great companies,” Asoko Insight’s CEO Rob Withagen says, “Why shouldn’t it have great corporate data?” For our family, it’s the homecoming routine. Santa only delivers once a year, but Amazon leaves something on our door about every other day.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

One large company, Dow, is now tackling this issue, working with the environmental NGO The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to try and make the business logic clearer. For example, how should companies handle the overuse of natural resources and the reduction in the planet's " biodiversity " (that is, the abundant variation in plant and animal life)?

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Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Started by the NGO Ceres, as part of its Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP) initiative, the Climate Declaration is a broad statement of intent that acting on climate will be good for our economy and society. What Companies Are Doing. And 31% even supported “intervention through taxation.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

At the macroeconomic level, the New Climate Economy report (issued by a group of CEOs, leading economists, and former country presidents) challenged the persistent, but incorrect, view that we have to choose between expanding prosperity for billions of people and protecting our shared asset base (that is, Earth and its climate). .”

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Some parts of the agenda — eco-efficiency and resource conservation for example — are widely accepted now, and it's rare to find a big-company CEO who doesn't have sustainability on his or her radar. Corporate sustainability lost some of its sexiness from previous years, as it grew more entrenched in day-to-day business.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 11

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. 2. One only needs take a look at MasterCard’s recent coup in Nigeria, where a deal has been signed to power the national ID system with MasterCard.

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