Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The Climate Declaration, created by the NGO Ceres as part of its BICEP advocacy group , makes a simple case for action: Taking on climate change will save money, improve efficiency, and drive innovation, all of which will keep America competitive internationally.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

To make this happen, a cross-functional team from each market selected ten promising brands and focused on getting initial, measurable results on one of them in 100days.Over the next year, these teams built on the initial results so that the collective gain was over half a billion dollars.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

He highlights the short-term focus of financial markets and of political systems, and also the need to change consumer preferences and habits, as three big areas that need to change at the system level. HBR: The idea of partnering with NGOs came up in many of the interviews. The result will be innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Or consider Kwabena Darko of Ghana, who helped found that country’s microfinance sector by forging a collaboration between global NGO Opportunity International , his national startup Sinapi Aba , and a myriad of village- and town-based trust groups. Amplify the voices of the constituents you seek to serve. Leadership Social enterprise'

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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. This innovation has impact. Conclusion? So what should mothers2mothers' leaders do?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

I’ve been in contact with Heiny and her team at Target over the last year about the program she helped build to drive product innovation and more sales. The collaboration, which the NGO Forum for the Future is managing, has high aspirations. So why are sustainable products surging now?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality. Brazil’s Beef Industry. Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6%

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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. They encourage viral marketing through early adopters. How can you accelerate customer adoption of the best solutions?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The for-profit arm, Embrace Innovations, would raise money from venture capitalists — though our first screening criteria would be investors who were aligned with our social mission. Thus far, through this approach, Embrace and Embrace Innovations have helped over 3,000 babies with our product.

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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. 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)?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But as I’ve done for the last 4 years, I’ll attempt to summarize some of the latest stories about the big environmental and social pressures on business, and how some innovative companies are dealing with them. The clean tech markets keep growing fast: three of the world’s biggest economies — the U.S., What Companies Are Doing.

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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. As the Economist said this year about the fast-growing green bonds market, sometimes “ a market appears out of nowhere.” Tough choices.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). Another example is the Finance Innovation Lab, which hosted the meeting of unusual suspects mentioned above. The purpose?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

That’s understandable — the growth of the consumer mobile market in Africa has been spectacular. And while almost all the examples I cite are from West Africa, many of these ideas and innovations are well suited for emerging markets around the world. In emerging markets, infrastructure is always an issue.

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