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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

We adopted a tactic I learned from Andrew Youn, Founder of One Acre Fund, to counteract this pinch. B-Corp Brown University Culture Entrepreneurship Innovation Runa Social Entrepreneurship Strategy Virtues-Values' Recruiting new técnicos has been a further bottleneck to scaling.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

Toffel: I thought Paul Polman was spot-on when he was breaking down the challenge of corporate sustainability into tactical and systemic issues. Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality.

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Accelerating Customer Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

These strategies may sound familiar, but implementing them effectively at the BoP requires distinct tactics. But beyond product and technology innovations, more widespread adoption can only happen if the behavior of individual farms changes in a fundamental way. In the trenches : Why is behavior entrenched?

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

We may not be keeping pace with these pressures, but leading companies continue to evolve more sustainable strategies and tactics. This isn't just a wonky exercise: As PepsiCo exec Al Halvorsen told me, "the real reason you do an LCA is improve the business, to put more efficient processes in place, and innovate in the supply chain.".