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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Toffel: I thought Paul Polman was spot-on when he was breaking down the challenge of corporate sustainability into tactical and systemic issues. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. But then more pressingly, I think, he talks about the need for system change.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2015

To change the alarming rate at which the number of people with the condition is growing globally, a fundamentally new approach is needed that goes beyond the formal health care system. The human cost is enormous, and the economic burden threatens to crush health systems. Insight Center. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

To be sure, many international water agencies have left developing countries but those exits tend to reflect a loss of funding or end of a contract — or sometimes a convenient belief that a community water challenge has been solved by simply installing a water system and providing basic community management training.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

Working with UL’s Good Guide system , Target scores 7,000 products on a 100-point scale, with 50 points at stake related to the toxicity of ingredients. The collaboration, which the NGO Forum for the Future is managing, has high aspirations. Our discussions focused on three reinforcing elements.

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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. None of these strategies is ideal.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

It has a central nervous system that alerts it to pain in the form of looming federal policy threats to tax exempt status and other core functions. It has InsideNGO, which works to improve the operational and management capacity of organizations in the global NGO community.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Recent studies of the efficiency and effectiveness rates of leading international NGOs and UN agencies have revealed the shortcomings of a system that, over the last half a century, has measured itself on process and not outcome. Take the example of child sponsorships, highly popular as a marketing tool for many NGOs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

As Steve Davis, former lead in McKinsey's Social Innovation practice and president of the global health NGO, Path, has said: "The best social innovations are not necessarily widely adopted. They developed a system to insert these messages into normal data traffic and measure the response through South Africa's National AIDS Helpline.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

We can manage without you.’ All in all, “getting laid off is a manageable setback on the scale of human experience,” Lees says. Tell it as many times as you need in order to resolve any “emotional baggage” and get it out of your system before you get in front of a recruiter.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Unfavorable demographics, with the aging of the baby boomers and low birth rates, also represents an economic time bomb for countries whose public retirement systems rely on current contributions to finance current pension obligations. But the number of people that this NGO can place is very small. Accommodating cultural differences.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Nor did we realize the amount of management time it would require for us to raise this capital as a non-profit organization; precious time that would be taken away from building the product and the infrastructure needed to deliver the product, and to make impact at the scale we had envisioned.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

For everybody, it is seen as offering a framework in which the lack of a credible police emergency system encourages different actors to consider wholly new ways of interconnecting. 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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