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

MARCH 4, 2016

feridun akgüngör. In other words, many of us operate on autopilot. To better understand the power of focus and awareness, consider an affliction that touches nearly all of us: email addiction. Nine or 10 hours have passed but you’ve accomplished only a few of your priorities. You’re not alone.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe NGO How To Short-term 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% We hope this will serve as a powerful motivator to improve leaders’ decision making and bring sustainable business practices further into the mainstream. of revenues). million (0.01% to 0.6%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

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

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. It is indicative of a new generation of leadership emerging at the top of many of the world's largest organizations. So in one sense, Polman is only being a good businessman.

Globalization 15

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

But the number of people that this NGO can place is very small. This sends a powerful signal about Britain’s diversity and openness. Business has learned how to design and operate lean and mean processes under tough global competition. He subsequently accepted an audit job offer from the same credit union.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing NGO Marketing Skills 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. The main challenge is that investors are very good at understanding a single asset with standalone cash flows — a toll road, for example, or a power plant, or an apartment building.

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 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. A deep shift in how we generate and use power has begun. And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change.

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%. On May 26, Germany set a world record when it produced 50% of its electricity needs from solar power alone.

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. 5.

CRM 8

CRM Marketing Supply Chain NGO 8