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The Big Trends Changing Community Development

Harvard Business Review

This is what is going on now in community development. There is a growing global awareness that we are not measuring developmental or humanitarian impacts correctly. Meanwhile, a second trend is the growing eagerness of the private sector to play a genuine and substantial role in community development.

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Three Unexpected Ways to Help with Disaster Recovery

Harvard Business Review

Further, once the immediate crisis or disaster has subsided, Thomson Reuters Foundation provides lawyers and legal resources for free to NGOs through two programs, Trustlaw and Trustlaw Connect. EIS provided critical information on how to contact search-and-rescue teams, where to receive food and water, and how to register missing loved ones.

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Monitor, Libya, and the Perils of a Blurred-Line World

Harvard Business Review

firm — founded in 1983 by several folks with Harvard Business School ties (among them famed professor Michael Porter ) — is known for strategy consulting, not PR work. The shorthand explanation: Globalization, technological change, and deregulation have disrupted long-established industries and professions. hedge funds?

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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Harvard Business Review

We are also bringing students to India and Haiti to do ethnographic research that will inform development of a $300 House, and when prototypes are developed, they will be deployed and tested with those who will live in them. For us, good business and social innovation are one and the same.

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The Economically Out-of-Date Nation-State

Harvard Business Review

Michael Porter, the godfather of business strategy, has gotten a lot of attention lately for trying to apply his model of competitive dynamics to the current plight of the United States — high unemployment, crushing healthcare costs, crumbling infrastructure, and widespread indebtedness.

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The Coming Age of Corporate Paternalism

Harvard Business Review

By "investing in American businesses to encourage hiring, to educate and train our workers to compete globally.". Those who see a crisis in business legitimacy are getting ahead of themselves. This is where Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's recent HBR article on adding social value fits nicely.

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