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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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Global NGOs Spend More on Accounting Than Multinationals

Harvard Business Review

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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Top Leaders of 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

She has only been finished her Residency in anesthesia for little over a year and is coordinating international WHO’s and the efforts of the likes of the Clinton Foundation, The UN and othe NGO’s. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. Sounds like a lifetime of accomplishments in leadership? She’s 37.

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Meet the Tech Companies Creating Opportunity in Africa

Harvard Business Review

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. And African Courier Express (ACE) is a logistics provider built to move products from e-commerce warehouses like Jumia’s to points identified by apps like OkHi. All told, such African technology start-ups attracted $186 million in early stage funding last year.

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How Western Multinationals Are Responding to the Escalating U.S.-China Trade War

Harvard Business Review

” However, there are other ways for Chinese authorities to take reprisals against Western multinationals operating in China should they so choose. technology companies — that use China as a source of assembly, semi-manufactures or components have an additional vulnerability: their value chain. technology company needs.

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The 10 Most Important Sustainable Business Stories from 2014

Harvard Business Review

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. Walmart and Target demonstrated how this works by convening a Personal Care Products Sustainability Summit. — is seeming possible again.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

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%. In the U.S., a backdoor approach to climate policy took over. The clean economy continues to explode.