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Unlocking Corporate Social Responsibility: 10 Impactful Ways to Give Back as a Business Owner

Strategy Driven

Support Local Charities and Nonprofits Charities and nonprofits operate with donations from other companies. Adopt Ethical Supply Chain Practices Building an ethical supply chain system is another effective way to become a socially responsible company. Work with the NGO to reform the affected after the disaster has passed.

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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. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

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. a holding company that operates seven distinct business.

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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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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

Toffel: I thought Paul Polman was spot-on when he was breaking down the challenge of corporate sustainability into tactical and systemic issues. But then more pressingly, I think, he talks about the need for system change. Winston : I agree with Mike that the focus on system change was notable. The result will be innovation.

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Change the World Without Losing Yourself

Harvard Business Review

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? Still others are from nonprofit leaders frustrated by a system that works against the dreams that brought them into the sector in the first place.

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How Target Is Taking Sustainable Products Mainstream

Harvard Business Review

Working with UL’s Good Guide system , Target scores 7,000 products on a 100-point scale, with 50 points at stake related to the toxicity of ingredients. 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.