Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

The company has made significant efforts to improve store operations with their impressive energy efficiency work and the purchase of more solar power than any entity in the U.S. But by and large, for years, Walmart has taken, in my view, a mainly operational, cost-reducing, brand-fitting approach to sustainability.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

adults were at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in 2015. At the same time, some 1,000 nonprofits and community-based organizations were offering a drug-free solution to help avoid developing diabetes, but they weren’t sufficiently publicizing it or engaging users to sell the service. Consider that 86 million U.S. A team of U.S.

Innovation 9

Innovation Rogers NGO Participative 9

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. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

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.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Exit Strategy NGO Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

As Steve Davis, former lead in McKinsey's Social Innovation practice and president of the global health NGO, Path, has said: "The best social innovations are not necessarily widely adopted. This framework has the potential to reverse the typical role of CSR, currently viewed as a way to "give back" to communities that a business operates in.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

feridun akgüngör. In other words, many of us operate on autopilot. Understand that mindfulness is not just a sedentary practice; mindfulness is about developing a sharp, clear mind. Nine or 10 hours have passed but you’ve accomplished only a few of your priorities. You’re not alone.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe NGO How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

The outcome is delivered on the machine screen with a printout, providing confidence of analysis and further actions which may include prescriptions at participating pharmacies, or escalation for medical attention with NGO doctors who supply anonymous medical treatments. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

Health Care 9

Health Care Technology System Library 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

billion people — over half of the developing world's population — lack access to basic sanitation. As a business that operates in many of the countries where these needs are most evident and pressing, we must help ensure those rights are realized. Unilever believes these are basic human rights.

NGO 8

NGO Franchising Project Operations 8

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. Thirty-five percent of these infections occur in South Africa and Nigeria alone.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It recognizes this new reality will spell decline for some commercial activities, but growth for others who find better ways of operating. Of course, when the requirements of leadership change, so must the focus of leadership development. So in one sense, Polman is only being a good businessman. engage in effective dialogue (75%).

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Even cutting-edge thinking operates from a binary context: It ties itself in knots trying to figure out how you can have both. 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. It's mutually exclusive, or so the story goes. Unstoppable?

NGO 10

NGO Banking Learning-by-Doing Construction 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

In most developing countries, if you have a good degree, you get a job. But the number of people that this NGO can place is very small. Business has learned how to design and operate lean and mean processes under tough global competition. I want to give something back to the Irish people.”

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing NGO Marketing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. ” Many sectors are crowded in developed markets, but wide open at the frontiers. Premise and Asoko grow not only because they are in new markets, but because they’re developing a new model to succeed there. For our family, it’s the homecoming routine.

Company 8

Company NGO Long-term Technology 8

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.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

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. This odd couple announced a collaboration last week to "work together to apply scientific knowledge and experience to examine how Dow's operations rely on and affect nature.".

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

When my organization, Education For Employment , began operations in 2006 as a demand-driven answer to Arab youth unemployment, I felt that creating a social franchise model was the best way to meaningfully address an issue of this scale. In regions in turmoil, this can be the difference between expanding operations and closing shop.

Franchising 8

Franchising Uncertainty NGO Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” However, there are other ways for Chinese authorities to take reprisals against Western multinationals operating in China should they so choose. Nor do those countries have the resources to develop them rapidly. technology company needs. is set on preventing the export of crucial U.S.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer NGO Technology Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

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 citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change. Serious legislation like a carbon tax — even in the U.S.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 12

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%. Finally, how much will we challenge the nature of capitalism, and what will that mean for how companies operate?

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Anyone following developments in the African IT space from afar can be forgiven for thinking that it’s all about the consumer, and that applications and services for business lag far behind. Presumably, the same logic operates in places like Bangladesh, Nicaragua, and Papua New Guinea.

CRM 8

CRM Marketing Supply Chain NGO 8