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How New Technologies Could Transform Africa’s Health Care System

Harvard Business Review

The solution is called CareAi: an AI-powered computing system anchored on blockchain that can diagnose infectious diseases, such as malaria, typhoid fever, and tuberculosis, within seconds. If AI systems could handle some of the minor healthcare issues, the available healthcare professionals could focus on the most difficult issues.

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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

We’ve built our entire supply chain from the ground up and are the first to introduce guayusa to international markets. ” We’ve instituted a system where técnicos rotate into different areas and take detailed GIS coordinates of all the farms.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system. Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy.

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Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems

Harvard Business Review

Over the course of the evening, 60 people drink red wine and laugh together in the heart of London as they watch an improvisational opera singer sum up the findings of the day: the characteristics of a financial system they would collectively be proud to put their name to. It can be a daunting task. Consider this example: the Future of Fish.

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Global NGOs Spend More on Accounting Than Multinationals

Harvard Business Review

As globalization began to shift into high gear in the 1980s, corporations grew by opening international outposts to access new markets. Like multinationals in the early days of globalization, many NGOs today struggle to grow the essential management capabilities and systems required to effectively manage their operations and growth.

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How Exactly Will We Move Away from Fossil Fuels?

Harvard Business Review

Investors who have significant money tied up in the fossil fuel industry — every pension and market fund, essentially — are facing a massive risk. But it doesn’t mean we’ll be stranding many assets any time soon – the installed base of carbon-based energy systems is really large. The growing divestment movement, led by the NGO 350.org

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The Largest Risk (and Opportunity) Investors Are Ignoring

Harvard Business Review

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. coal market. Nearly none, and that systemic failure of vision contributed mightily to a global financial collapse.