Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals or the new Sustainable Development Goals , which will be debated at Rio, depends upon the engagement of a wide array of nations, businesses, and citizens, and on the effective use of technologies that place power in the hands of individuals rather than institutions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

In the private sector, corporations achieve their goals by carefully designing business operations that are reflected in a budget and then regularly reporting on how actual profits compare to that budget. A well-crafted mission statement allows an NGO to operate with focus and discipline.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Keith Ferrazzi – Addresses behaviors that block the achievement of strategic goals. Raj Shah – President, The Rockefeller Foundation. Healthcare Leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

The magnitude of that goal can make the right time to exit seem like "never." Every international NGO (INGO) and aid agency involved in water supply has a mission statement along the lines of "we envision a world where no one dies of a water-related disease." That is particularly true in the water sector.

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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. A strong finding is that knowledge networks, like many other forms of interaction, need care and attentiveness and goals for their success.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Tackling climate change — and thus keeping the world inhabitable — is an achievable goal, but it will become prohibitively expensive if we wait to act. The day before the stark story in the Times appeared, I attended a related conference, the Investor Summit on Climate Risk, held at the UN and run by the NGO Ceres.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

And in the absence of industrial farmers and national grocery chains, we would find ourselves in need of a great deal more charity, and a lot further away from the goal of changing the world, to boot. Paradoxically, this new era of limitlessness often serves to limit the imaginations of the young people it attracts.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Through the many challenges we''ve faced along the way, we''ve gained some insights that we hope will serve us and others as we continue to try to transform health care systems in Africa, India, and beyond: Set and measure ambitious goals — together. We then, in turn, trained local lab workers, who then trained others.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

feridun akgüngör. It’s about stripping away distractions and staying on track with individual, as well as organizational, goals. You probably know the feeling all too well: You arrive at the office with a clear plan for the day and then, in what feels like just a moment, you find yourself on your way back home.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

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. There is no value in duplicating efforts; we'd rather work with others and bring our skills and resources to bear in achieving a shared goal.

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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 22, 2015

Ending extreme poverty by 2030 is the BHAG – the big, hairy audacious goal – of our generation. He is authoring an as yet unpublished study comparing these programs to 50 other government and NGO livelihood and cash transfer programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Whether your goal is to tap this enormous, underserved market for a revolutionary new product, or to impact as many people as possible with a novel healthcare intervention , the question is the same. Making drip irrigation more affordable and appropriate for these farmers has been one of my main goals in founding Driptech.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

It’s a valid question, but disappointingly, almost no NGO can point to evidence of impact. By now, three generations and at least three million children have passed through such programs. Have they been effective? What began as charity-minded Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs have evolved into pursuits of “shared value.”

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Deforestation causes up to 10% of global GHG emissions (trees store carbon, which reduces GHG emissions, and release carbon when they are cut or burned), and reducing deforestation is one of the cheaper and easier ways to tackle global climate change goals.

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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.” ” Your goal is to find out what’s going on in a given sector and organization and “learn what success looks like” in it, he says. ” During one of these meetings, Paul was introduced to the director of an NGO.

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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. While our primary focus is in India, Embrace is doing pilot projects with NGO partners in 10 countries, and we hope to further scale this year.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2016

However, social impact and pay-for-success securities could unlock substantial foundation, philanthropic, and NGO assets to buffer the risk for return-seeking capital. As with other pay-for-success programs, the ability to attract pure return-seeking capital may be limited for social impact bonds.

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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.

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