Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

McManus’s reframing of leadership — the leader as the sidekick, the intern as the superhero — embodies three powerful principles that enable innovation and discovery. To recognize how innovative this approach is, just imagine telling your intern or most junior employee that come Monday, you are their intern.

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Supply Chain NGO CTO Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

Ian Bremmer's smart new book, Every Nation for Itself, accurately depicts today's world: a complex system lacking über-powerful mega-states that set the stage for us all. In the "G-Zero world" that Bremmer describes, many have power—and no one has control. Twenty years ago, the internet was largely unknown.

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Succession NGO Globalization Politics 11

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. ,

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Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

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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Policies NGO Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

Over the past several decades, my colleagues and I have seen the power of short-term stretch goals in almost every imaginable situation. Second, intentionally design the short-term stretch goals in ways that force innovation, collaboration, and learning — so it's not just a matter of working harder for a short period of time.

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Goal Short-term NGO Long-term 12

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

DECEMBER 4, 2017

But I think the interesting part comes when they start to see it as an opportunity for innovations that are financially beneficial as well as socially beneficial. HBR: The idea of partnering with NGOs came up in many of the interviews. The result will be innovation. How can these relationships be most fruitful?

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

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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Entrepreneur Microfinance NGO Mission Statement 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

Continues Parag: The best place to view what model of diplomacy lies before us in the New Middle Ages is the Swiss enclave of Davos, where each January the planet's most influential heads of state, CEOs, mayors, religious leaders, NGO heads, university presidents, celebrities and artists flock for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

An eco-NGO, the International Council on Clean Transportation — not formal regulatory review — effectively uncovered the con. This structural power shift is not unique to expensive automobiles; it holds for any and every industry where consumers, customers, and clients demonstrably care about getting their money’s worth.

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Due Diligence Automotive NGO Incentives 8

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 company has made significant efforts to improve store operations with their impressive energy efficiency work and the purchase of more solar power than any entity in the U.S.

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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 14

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 courageous? Are you being authentic? Unstoppable?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We hope this will serve as a powerful motivator to improve leaders’ decision making and bring sustainable business practices further into the mainstream. These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality. Brazil’s Beef Industry.

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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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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The main challenge is that investors are very good at understanding a single asset with standalone cash flows — a toll road, for example, or a power plant, or an apartment building. But to tackle sprawl, multisector coordination is required: roads, rail, land-use, zoning, power, water, and sanitation must work together.

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Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

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. Walmart, already the largest private sector buyer of solar power in the US (with more solar capacity than 38 U.S.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 31, 2023

This is being carried out at both the government authority and NGO levels. “In these decision-making processes, where asylum seekers and authorities have a very unequal power relationship, democratic and legal rights are easily subject to pressure.

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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. A deep shift in how we generate and use power has begun. And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

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. They dodge the same-old power dynamics and focus on building solutions that work.

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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%. On May 26, Germany set a world record when it produced 50% of its electricity needs from solar power alone.

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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. 5.

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