Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

We all want to buy the best products we can find and afford. How about a product that minimizes its environmental impacts or tries to make the world a better place? Identifying the companies that make these more “sustainable” products has been nearly impossible… until now.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I spent some time talking with Peter Anderson, the manager of the Mologne House. Peter has been the manager at Mologne since it opened 14 years ago. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. He told me that the average stay for his guests is somewhere between 16 and 18 months.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

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. Each major government ministry in China was pitching green products and services at the tradeshow. Its another thing to see the green focus up close.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

But the data, gathered in our new study " Stop Starving Scale " and compared against benchmarks from APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center), hint at a little-known story: most global NGOs today struggle to master the complexities of managing efficient, integrated operations in large part due to restrictions placed on them by funders.

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Globalization NGO Benchmarking Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. For example, [Andrew] Liveris talked about the focus Dow [Chemical] has on great chemistry and designing new sustainable product lines and being willing to cannibalize existing products. They’re so far removed from it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

One team, for instance, revised a commercial taping product for home use and partnered with Home Depot to sell it. As one manager said, "I learned more in 100 days than I had in the previous several years.". These "small stretches" also energized participants and helped them develop capabilities as growth leaders.

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Goal Short-term NGO Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

But just because your company is not fully evolved on the social change scale doesn't mean that there's nothing you (as a manager) can do. We're years away from the point where doing good will be the accepted norm for successful businesses. How much energy are you consuming? Are you wasting resources such as paper, ink, or other supplies?

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Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

The outcome is delivered on the machine screen with a printout, providing confidence of analysis and further actions which may include prescriptions at participating pharmacies, or escalation for medical attention with NGO doctors who supply anonymous medical treatments.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

But however well intentioned the ideas are, this is not the best use of one of the most productive workforces in the world. The true solution, we think, lies in understanding the changed nature of modern supply chains and identifying new business models better suited for managing them.

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Business Model Supply Chain Compliance Disaggregation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

The day before the stark story in the Times appeared, I attended a related conference, the Investor Summit on Climate Risk, held at the UN and run by the NGO Ceres. ” The value of the companies owning and managing those assets, the logic goes, will plummet. degrees Fahrenheit (2 o C). That’s $1 trillion per year.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. When business is conducted globally, we often have to travel long distances to launch projects, meet with partners, negotiate deals, address crises, manage customer relations, and engage in a variety of other activities on the behalf of our organizations. You and Your Team. Business Travel.

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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. Networks can be developed consciously or arise in evolutionary fashion; either way, their value is in their production and dissemination of knowledge.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Most major universities now have nonprofit management programs that didn't exist ten years ago. And so a young girl, whose calling — and whose value to the world — may really be to dance, or to build an industry, is hypnotized into becoming the fundraising director for an NGO. What difference does passion make? A slow pace?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Ascertaining why and how deeply one’s counterparty needs what you’re offering is central when it comes to relative power — the greater his need for you and/or your product or service, the greater your power, and vice-versa. Moreover, hiring managers frequently applauded these candidates for being assertive.

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Tactics NGO Power Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The government agricultural agency teamed up with NGOs to work with ranchers on sustainable agriculture practices, which focused on no deforestation, more cattle per hectare, reforestation, managing water, biodiversity, soil conservation, reducing waste, and helping to improve the welfare of workers and animals.

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Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 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. When I get my nonprofit management degree, that's when I can really start making a difference," we say to ourselves. The assembly line, which made workers eight times more productive.

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NGO Banking Learning-by-Doing Construction 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

It’s a valid question, but disappointingly, almost no NGO can point to evidence of impact. Instead, the NGOs fall back on process measures, like how many schools have been built or teachers hired. By now, three generations and at least three million children have passed through such programs. Have they been effective?

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Trends Development Net Present Value NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The company would double the size of its business, he said, by channeling its efforts toward achieving eight ambitious goals by 2020 — among them, doubling the proportion of Unilever's portfolio that meets the highest nutritional standards, and halving the water associated with the consumer use of its products.

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

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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NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Companies are increasingly seeing the obvious benefits of slashing energy use, and beginning to include in their calculations the considerable risk reduction from managing water well or limiting the use of toxic chemicals. Risk reduction: Managing your nature-sourced supply chain well can help avoid headaches and possible litigation.

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Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. And African Courier Express (ACE) is a logistics provider built to move products from e-commerce warehouses like Jumia’s to points identified by apps like OkHi. You need techniques of investment and management that can traverse large distances and unimproved roads.

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Company NGO Long-term Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone. This is where a new financial product, social impact bonds (also known as pay-for-success contracts), can play a role. Innovation in Cities. Corporations might even get involved.

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Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". In reality, both views were right. In the U.S., a backdoor approach to climate policy took over. It wasn't just energy.

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