Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

How would the charities trying to change the world operate without the manufacturers that make the equipment for their medical clinics, or without General Electric providing them with light bulbs? Lost in this new era is the notion that one can still make a difference in business, even absent any corporate social responsibility program.

NGO 18

NGO Armstrong Industry Advertising 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Bring your team together to identify ways that you can operate with greater sustainability and then set stretch targets. Are you wasting resources such as paper, ink, or other supplies? Are you recycling as much as possible? Can you reduce business and commuter travel, or make it more efficient? Prahalad called the bottom of the pyramid.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

It doesn’t have one center of organization and imagination looking out at the far horizon to inspire and guide all of the component parts to get to a place together that none operating independently could ever get to on its own. It has no coordinated analytical capability to help it understand its progress.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting NGO Diversity Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

The company has made significant efforts to improve store operations with their impressive energy efficiency work and the purchase of more solar power than any entity in the U.S. But by and large, for years, Walmart has taken, in my view, a mainly operational, cost-reducing, brand-fitting approach to sustainability.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Toffel : The interesting thing about the risk lens is if everyone started paying attention to risks, I suspect it would lead to both more product innovation and investing in more-resilient operations and supply chains. HBR: The idea of partnering with NGOs came up in many of the interviews. How can these relationships be most fruitful?

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

While nonprofits, often starved for general operating funds, can’t match pharma’s marketing budgets, a recent Bridgespan study argues that it’s time they and their funders heed business findings on increasing noise in the marketplace and the need to make any new offering, even a life-saving one, stand out. A team of U.S.

Innovation 9

Innovation Rogers NGO Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Three lines of progress are crossing, and rapidly reshaping how businesses and nonprofits together strengthen the locales in which they operate. Take the example of child sponsorships, highly popular as a marketing tool for many NGOs. It’s a valid question, but disappointingly, almost no NGO can point to evidence of impact.

Trends 8

Trends Development Net Present Value NGO 8

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. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

Health Care 10

Health Care Technology System Library 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

feridun akgüngör. In other words, many of us operate on autopilot. You probably know the feeling all too well: You arrive at the office with a clear plan for the day and then, in what feels like just a moment, you find yourself on your way back home. You’re not alone.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe NGO How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

As a business that operates in many of the countries where these needs are most evident and pressing, we must help ensure those rights are realized. The numbers are staggering: 884 million people do not have access to safe drinking water, and 2.6 Unilever believes these are basic human rights.

NGO 8

NGO Franchising Project Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

In our work, victory means that the districts where we work, comprising hundreds or even thousands of villages, no longer need our support to keep water systems operating. The magnitude of that goal can make the right time to exit seem like "never." That is particularly true in the water sector.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Exit Strategy NGO Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

To address this, Cape Town-based NGO mothers2mothers employs and trains HIV-positive mothers as "Mentor Mothers" who work alongside nurses and doctors in clinics, providing psychosocial support to pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV. Thirty-five percent of these infections occur in South Africa and Nigeria alone.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Even cutting-edge thinking operates from a binary context: It ties itself in knots trying to figure out how you can have both. 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. It's mutually exclusive, or so the story goes. Unstoppable?

NGO 10

NGO Banking Learning-by-Doing Construction 10

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. This framework has the potential to reverse the typical role of CSR, currently viewed as a way to "give back" to communities that a business operates in.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% Despite these strictures, the Brazilian operations of McDonald’s and Carrefour reaped similar types of benefits as the slaughterhouses — $12.5 of revenues). million (0.01% to 0.6%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

” For the first time, a major retailer is giving prominent shelf space — albeit virtual — to companies operating in a better way. TSC has evolved into a collaboration of more than 100 of the world’s largest retailers, consumer product companies, and NGO and academic partners.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Supply Chain Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It recognizes this new reality will spell decline for some commercial activities, but growth for others who find better ways of operating. Unilever's strategy for 2020 is formulated in direct response to that quest for improved quality of life in a much more resource-constrained context.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

But the number of people that this NGO can place is very small. Business has learned how to design and operate lean and mean processes under tough global competition. It provided Kibreab Kidane with relevant accountancy career information and advice and helped him find an internship in a credit union.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing NGO Marketing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

One large company, Dow, is now tackling this issue, working with the environmental NGO The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to try and make the business logic clearer. This odd couple announced a collaboration last week to "work together to apply scientific knowledge and experience to examine how Dow's operations rely on and affect nature.".

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. But as their operating models demonstrate, deploying large numbers of boots on the ground is precisely what’s called for in Africa, supplemented by machine learning at both companies. For our family, it’s the homecoming routine. Here’s another key difference.

Company 8

Company NGO Long-term Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. However, social impact and pay-for-success securities could unlock substantial foundation, philanthropic, and NGO assets to buffer the risk for return-seeking capital.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

When my organization, Education For Employment , began operations in 2006 as a demand-driven answer to Arab youth unemployment, I felt that creating a social franchise model was the best way to meaningfully address an issue of this scale. In regions in turmoil, this can be the difference between expanding operations and closing shop.

Franchising 8

Franchising Uncertainty NGO Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” However, there are other ways for Chinese authorities to take reprisals against Western multinationals operating in China should they so choose. It would undercut the high-ground that Beijing has occupied as self-appointed defender of “the rules-based international order.”

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer NGO Technology Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change. Serious legislation like a carbon tax — even in the U.S.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Obama administration issued new standards to double the fuel economy of cars and trucks , and the National Resources Defense Council (an NGO) proposed using the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from power plants by 25%. Finally, how much will we challenge the nature of capitalism, and what will that mean for how companies operate?

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The creative binding together of radio stations, private security operations (usually available only to the very wealthy), and neighborly values achieves what only massive infrastructure build-out in terms of police stations, communication lines, response vehicles, and training facilities could enable in another context.

CRM 8

CRM Marketing Supply Chain NGO 8