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How Big Data Can Support More Precise Conservation

The Horizons Tracker

Marketing may on the surface appear to have little it can teach conservationists about how to protect precious wilderness, but a recent study from the University of Montana suggests that the kind of data-driven approach used by digital marketers can also help to inspire new conservation behaviors. ” Precision conservation.

NGO 50
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Leading For Good

Great Leadership By Dan

My friends were all doing sexier things like technology, communications, or financial services.” In the interview, Mark made a compelling case that understanding deals, companies, and markets would be vital to the success of NGOs in the 21 st century. We were by far the first environmental NGO to move. Then we grew.

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How New Technologies Could Transform Africa’s Health Care System

Harvard Business Review

Across industrial sectors, from healthcare to energy, from construction to retail, engineers are creating new technologies with potentially disruptive implications for the current architectural order of the global economy. One of the technologies, an “ AI doctor ”, shows great promise for the future of healthcare in Africa.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Authority on new technology and communication. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Alex Osterwalder – Co-founder Strategyzer.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention. In the U.S.

NGO 14
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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. Perversely, funders view such high costs as proof that NGOs already spend too much on administration, apparently oblivious to their role in pushing up the very costs they question.

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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. And while the new electrified vehicles market is growing fast, it’ll be many years until those technologies dominate. The growing divestment movement, led by the NGO 350.org

NGO 9