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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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To Profit from Doing Good, Start Small

Harvard Business Review

Leaders of these companies now believe that "doing good" can be a powerful strategy for growing markets, stimulating innovation, motivating employees, tapping into new talent pools, and actually reducing costs. Billions of poor and underprivileged people constitute the largest untapped market in the world. Educate your team.

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The Social Franchise Model Works in Times of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

With ethical, networked leaders involved, a franchise model is the best way to keep an organization running in an unstable area where uncertainty or lack of trust can make it challenging for foreign organizations to operate and deploy funds. Find ethical, networked leaders at the local level. Local legitimacy leads to resiliency.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

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. The Shell Foundation provided HPS with market-based expertise and funding to help the company validate and scale its model.