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

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. But, so what? Conclusion?

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7%

Supply Chain 8

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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 12

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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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

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. Consider the overwhelming number of transformative innovations that have come from the for-profit sector. Are you being authentic? Unstoppable? Law #2: You make a difference now.

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NGO Banking Learning-by-Doing Construction 10

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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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Economists Norbert Berthold and Klaus Gründler, looking across 188 countries worldwide, concluded in a working paper that “entrepreneurship has a significantly positive effect on growth.” We are talking about the U.S.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Policies Entrepreneur NGO 8

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. companies that value and integrate biodiversity and ecosystem services into their strategic plans are best positioned for the future by operationalizing sustainability."

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 31, 2023

This is being carried out at both the government authority and NGO levels. While more data can be positive, it’s important to keep in mind that data is never objective. Over the past few years, there has been a rising trend of generating copious amounts of data on refugees worldwide.

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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

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. Another example of an infrastructure patch that has already gotten attention in the West is BRCK, the spin-off commercial service from renowned NGO Ushahidi.

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