Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

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. As Jason Saul argues in his new book Social Innovation Inc. , How much energy are you consuming? Educate your team.

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Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

One team, for instance, revised a commercial taping product for home use and partnered with Home Depot to sell it. As one manager said, "I learned more in 100 days than I had in the previous several years.". These "small stretches" also energized participants and helped them develop capabilities as growth leaders.

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Goal Short-term NGO Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

But however well intentioned the ideas are, this is not the best use of one of the most productive workforces in the world. The true solution, we think, lies in understanding the changed nature of modern supply chains and identifying new business models better suited for managing them.

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Business Model Supply Chain Compliance Disaggregation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

New infrastructures have arisen to support it, from the Stanford Social Innovation Review , TED and Good , to the Social Enterprise Program at Harvard. Most major universities now have nonprofit management programs that didn't exist ten years ago. So, what difference does being (as opposed to doing ) make? Peace of mind? A slow pace?

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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. You might well be surprised at both the mass of empirical data they gather and, on occasion, the innovativeness of a study's conception and underlying ideas. Department of Commerce , or the United Nations.

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NGO Bottom-up Report GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Our research has found that embedded sustainability drives financial performance through mediating factors such as innovation, operational efficiency, risk reduction, employee recruitment, engagement and retention, customer and supplier loyalty, competitive advantage, reduced cost of capital, and improved marketing and sales.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

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. When I get my nonprofit management degree, that's when I can really start making a difference," we say to ourselves. The assembly line, which made workers eight times more productive.

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NGO Banking Learning-by-Doing Construction 10

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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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone. Innovation in Cities. This is where a new financial product, social impact bonds (also known as pay-for-success contracts), can play a role. Insight Center. Corporations might even get involved.

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Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

We were eager to take this product to the disadvantaged communities who desperately needed it. Little did we know the time and capital it would require for us to get from a concept to a manufactured and clinically tested product — not to mention what it would take to build a distribution channel to sell our product.

NGO 8

NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Companies are increasingly seeing the obvious benefits of slashing energy use, and beginning to include in their calculations the considerable risk reduction from managing water well or limiting the use of toxic chemicals. Risk reduction: Managing your nature-sourced supply chain well can help avoid headaches and possible litigation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". In reality, both views were right. In the U.S., a backdoor approach to climate policy took over. It wasn't just energy.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10