N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Watching how she instructs and interacts with the children in her class, I am reminded of many of the important skills a leader needs to demonstrate. Covey’s understands that to get the children into learning how to read means first creating a love of reading within the child. For example, Ms. Something else that Ms.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For our study, we focused in detail on 10 ranches participating in the Novo Campo program and on Fazenda São Marcelo, a large ranch that has been Rainforest Alliance certified since 2012, working with the Brazilian NGO Imaflora. “But when we implemented sustainable practices, our quality immediately increased.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

“The old adage that it’s not about you is nonsense,” says John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and the author of How to Get a Job You Love. ” During one of these meetings, Paul was introduced to the director of an NGO. We can manage without you.’ ’ It feels personal.”

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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. Author: How to Be Happy at Work. . Author: The New IQ, How to lead Up, Down, and Across and The Coach’s Playbook: The Leader as Coach Playbook.

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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. HBR: The idea of partnering with NGOs came up in many of the interviews. How can these relationships be most fruitful? The result will be innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Only when BRAC, a Bangladesh NGO, recruited and deployed thousands of paid workers to teach villagers how to make it out of ingredients in even the humblest of homes did adoption take off, in the early 1980s. A team of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

So the global media have been publishing lots of articles about the significance of Davos , about the moods of Davos , about how to dress for Davos (some of the tips in that one are from my wife, so pay heed). The World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos kicks off tonight. There will be lots more once the conference starts.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

You can find the answer to the timing question nestled among the facts that David Bornstein lays out in the preface to his book, How to Change the World. And is this kind of rapid growth good news? That year, two global headlines raised the profile of social enterprise: Mohammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace prize.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

But here the community is borrowing a term from traditional venture capitalists, who know that a big part of maximizing returns is having a plan for when and how to end one''s involvement in a venture and invest resources elsewhere. Social enterprises, of course, are organizations designed primarily to yield social versus financial value.

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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

MAY 1, 2013

To improve national TB programs, for example, we needed to improve not only the labs but also the tracking process of TB specimens from the patient to the lab, and we needed to learn how. To do so, we enlisted one of our NGO partners to teach our IT team how to use geographic information systems (GIS).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Is it better to attach conditions, or do the poor know best how to spend their money? 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. Do you give them cash or assets ?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

How many such projects are they handling currently? How long has it been in business? How does it define its market, or in the case of an NGO or government agency, its central purpose? So, don’t spend all of your preparation time determining how to lock in a deal.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Across the board we see the top executives of some of the world's largest organizations talking about, taking action on, and defining their success in terms of things that have conventionally been the realm of political leaders and NGO activists. The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers.

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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. We have found that choosing the right partner allows us to amplify our message and impact.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Decades of hit-or-miss advice from government, companies, and NGO's has reinforced farmers' already skeptical view of new solutions. So how to reduce these risks and accelerate early adoption? This is because the wrong changes to their methods can potentially jeopardize their entire income.

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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.

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

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

In this article we draw on that experience to explore the key challenges involved in on-boarding and suggest how to confront them. In Europe, they have to learn how to sell themselves and compete on the job market. But the number of people that this NGO can place is very small. Recognizing qualifications.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

The policy debate should really move beyond whether to “do entrepreneurship” to how to seed the businesses that will create the jobs. Further, how can we engender the rock star aura of American entrepreneurship in places where NGO and government jobs are safer career bets for would-be, could-be, should-be startup founders?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

For example, how should companies handle the overuse of natural resources and the reduction in the planet's " biodiversity " (that is, the abundant variation in plant and animal life)? 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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Supporting activists to develop new campaign strategies that can build the capacity of NGO’s, as Campaign Lab does in the U.K. Many of our current systems — energy, finance, food — were designed at a different point in history when we didn’t consider how limited resources are.

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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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