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5 Lessons from an Office on the Edge

Mills Scofield

For the last three years, I have satiated this string of my DNA with an unconventional job – as Executive Director of a small NGO addressing maternal and child survival in slums of Mali, West Africa, where health outcomes are among the lowest in the world. Motivation. Real progress however, is more messy and less linear.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. And on and on.

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Top Leaders of 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

She has only been finished her Residency in anesthesia for little over a year and is coordinating international WHO’s and the efforts of the likes of the Clinton Foundation, The UN and othe NGO’s. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. Sounds like a lifetime of accomplishments in leadership? She’s 37.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

I visited Beijing last week, speaking to a group of corporate executives assembled by a major NGO to work on climate change issues. Of these 5 articles, some were self-explanatory: " Nation spurs development of new, green technologies ". " Besides the meeting itself, I was struck by the considerable focus on green issues in China.

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Is VW’s Fraud the End of Large-Scale Corporate Deception?

Harvard Business Review

This sustained and sophisticated software scam suggests truly pathological levels of managerial desperation and contempt: desperation around a failed promise of clean diesel technology and unsubtle contempt for unsuspecting regulators and customers alike. Precisely how gullible did these wizards of Wolfsburg think people would be?

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Accelerating Customer Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

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. This technology has been shown to save water and labor, and to increase yield in a variety of crops.

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Should Your Business Be Nonprofit or For-Profit?

Harvard Business Review

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.

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