Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. Whelan : We’ve seen a sea change in the last 10 years around company and NGO engagement — it’s far more cooperative. The result will be innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

The Rio+20 Summit on sustainable development is still weeks away, and yet many already have proclaimed the event a failure. Few companies attended the original Earth Summit, and examples of company-NGO collaboration were few and far between. That verdict is based on outdated assumptions about the nature of change.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Now and then, over the years, a government agency or NGO issues a report that is startlingly insightful and useful. The study grew out of the recognition that, in a developing nation, cultivating a thriving private sector is fundamental to sustainable economic growth—and that the world already knows a lot about how to do this.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

To be sure, many international water agencies have left developing countries but those exits tend to reflect a loss of funding or end of a contract — or sometimes a convenient belief that a community water challenge has been solved by simply installing a water system and providing basic community management training.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Without adequate financing, ministries of health and even private hospitals in developing countries often don''t have the resources needed to purchase diagnostic equipment, train workers, and ensure access to appropriate treatment. Resistant forms continue to thrive, and increased travel makes the global threat very real.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The company would double the size of its business, he said, by channeling its efforts toward achieving eight ambitious goals by 2020 — among them, doubling the proportion of Unilever's portfolio that meets the highest nutritional standards, and halving the water associated with the consumer use of its products.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

feridun akgüngör. Understand that mindfulness is not just a sedentary practice; mindfulness is about developing a sharp, clear mind. It’s about stripping away distractions and staying on track with individual, as well as organizational, goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

While much has already been written about this challenge in the developed world, there are also some important lessons to be learned from the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP). Making drip irrigation more affordable and appropriate for these farmers has been one of my main goals in founding Driptech.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Ending extreme poverty by 2030 is the BHAG – the big, hairy audacious goal – of our generation. Discussion abounds in the development sector today about the best ways to empower the poor. While skepticism abounds, momentum is on our side, with poverty rates falling in every region of world. Do you give them cash or assets

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

To address this, Cape Town-based NGO mothers2mothers employs and trains HIV-positive mothers as "Mentor Mothers" who work alongside nurses and doctors in clinics, providing psychosocial support to pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV. Yet, if scaling impact is the goal, these skills are essential.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

billion people — over half of the developing world's population — lack access to basic sanitation. To tackle threats to the future health and wellbeing of people in need, businesses must partner with governments and NGOs, lending their skills, resources, and reach. Unilever believes these are basic human rights.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Your goal is get out of your own head with a fun and “active hiatus.” Develop an “objective, short, and upbeat” message that shows you’re “not a victim and you’re not stuck.” ” During one of these meetings, Paul was introduced to the director of an NGO. ” Go hiking.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Social entrepreneurs often grapple with the decision of whether to establish their organizations as nonprofit or for-profit in order to reach their goals. Furthermore, this allows the for-profit entity to develop and focus its competencies to sell and distribute products, as well as to conduct research and development.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao Paolo, Lagos, New Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta, and many others. As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

the utility NRG – which gets the vast majority of its power from fossil fuels — set some remarkable public goals , committing to cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and 90% by 2050. And China took serious action, setting a cap on coal emissions by 2020 , which will help it reach the goals of the carbon agreement with the U.S. (a

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Obama administration issued new standards to double the fuel economy of cars and trucks , and the National Resources Defense Council (an NGO) proposed using the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from power plants by 25%. In the U.S., a backdoor approach to climate policy took over. Company Stories.

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