Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

As a recent report on the subject from the NGO Ceres said, “According to the IEA, more than two-thirds of the world’s proven reserves of fossil fuels will be unusable prior to 2050 if necessary carbon regulations are enacted [emphasis added].”. Companies and consumers could also decide it’s cool to use clean power.

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NGO Energy Morale Price 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

However, the company execs and NGO leaders in Beijing tell me that sustainability is still a new pursuit for Chinese companies. Comments The Buzz on Green Business in China I visited Beijing last week, speaking to a group of corporate executives assembled by a major NGO to work on climate change issues.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

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. Sounds like a lifetime of accomplishments in leadership? She’s 37. I have found Maggie Doyne to be one of those amazing people.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Black Enterprise Magazine ‘Top 100 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America’ and ‘50 Most Powerful Women in Corporate America’. Healthcare Leaders.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The Climate Declaration, created by the NGO Ceres as part of its BICEP advocacy group , makes a simple case for action: Taking on climate change will save money, improve efficiency, and drive innovation, all of which will keep America competitive internationally.

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Policies NGO Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

Ian Bremmer's smart new book, Every Nation for Itself, accurately depicts today's world: a complex system lacking über-powerful mega-states that set the stage for us all. In the "G-Zero world" that Bremmer describes, many have power—and no one has control. Twenty years ago, the internet was largely unknown.

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Succession NGO Globalization Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

Over the past several decades, my colleagues and I have seen the power of short-term stretch goals in almost every imaginable situation. If you tackle them by carving out short-term challenges, and learn as you go, they can be a powerful way to accelerate progress. Let's not dismiss stretch goals as demotivating or dangerous.

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Goal Short-term NGO Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Professional negotiators and researchers alike hail the BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement, or “walk away” outcome) as a negotiator’s primary source of relative power. A negotiator’s BATNA-based power in these situations is virtually meaningless as would be any corresponding strategy based on the same.

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Tactics NGO Power Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

McManus’s reframing of leadership — the leader as the sidekick, the intern as the superhero — embodies three powerful principles that enable innovation and discovery. Dara Dotz is removing obstacles to rapid recovery in humanitarian disasters with her NGO, Field Ready. Be the beginner.

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Supply Chain NGO CTO Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Leaders of these companies now believe that "doing good" can be a powerful strategy for growing markets, stimulating innovation, motivating employees, tapping into new talent pools, and actually reducing costs. As Jason Saul argues in his new book Social Innovation Inc. ,

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NGO Prahalad Long-term Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

Continues Parag: The best place to view what model of diplomacy lies before us in the New Middle Ages is the Swiss enclave of Davos, where each January the planet's most influential heads of state, CEOs, mayors, religious leaders, NGO heads, university presidents, celebrities and artists flock for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

An eco-NGO, the International Council on Clean Transportation — not formal regulatory review — effectively uncovered the con. This structural power shift is not unique to expensive automobiles; it holds for any and every industry where consumers, customers, and clients demonstrably care about getting their money’s worth.

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Due Diligence Automotive NGO Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

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. One of the technologies, an “ AI doctor ”, shows great promise for the future of healthcare in Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Or consider Kwabena Darko of Ghana, who helped found that country’s microfinance sector by forging a collaboration between global NGO Opportunity International , his national startup Sinapi Aba , and a myriad of village- and town-based trust groups. Amplify the voices of the constituents you seek to serve.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance NGO Mission Statement 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This is why mitigation requires government policy mandates, and I think CEOs should try to use their power of persuasion to try to get government to require mitigation — and adaptation. HBR: The idea of partnering with NGOs came up in many of the interviews. How can these relationships be most fruitful?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

feridun akgüngör. 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. And, most likely, you can’t even remember exactly what you did all day.

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Sharpe NGO How To Short-term 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. The collaboration, which the NGO Forum for the Future is managing, has high aspirations. besides the military.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

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. Are you being courageous? Are you being authentic? Unstoppable? Because that's what really makes a difference. It's who you are being that matters — whatever sector you're in.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

It has InsideNGO, which works to improve the operational and management capacity of organizations in the global NGO community. It has the National Council of Nonprofits, a network of groups across the nation which does advocacy work and helps organizations learn from one another to achieve greater collective impact.

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Budgeting NGO Diversity Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Now and then, over the years, a government agency or NGO issues a report that is startlingly insightful and useful. However, because of several odd factors (for example: they can't be commercially advertised) these reports often don't come to the attention of many who might actually have some use for their information.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. However, this belies the powerful physiological mechanisms at play. And if you have to cross time zones, it can wreak havoc on the circadian process that regulates sleep, leaving you feeling tired and groggy just when you need to be your most productive.

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Travel NGO Energy Strategy 8

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. Consider these examples: 1. The Shell Foundation provided HPS with market-based expertise and funding to help the company validate and scale its model.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

TSC has evolved into a collaboration of more than 100 of the world’s largest retailers, consumer product companies, and NGO and academic partners. In 2009, Walmart was one of several companies that provided seed funding to start The Sustainability Consortium (TSC), jointly run by the University of Arkansas and Arizona State University.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

He is authoring an as yet unpublished study comparing these programs to 50 other government and NGO livelihood and cash transfer programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America. We need to tap into their creative power. “In some cases it actually works out to be cheaper, especially when you take effectiveness into account.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

This is not to say that civil servants and NGO volunteers are not well meaning. But they are in a position of relative power to the refugees, which creates the potential for a psychologically dangerous dynamic to take hold. The question is no longer whether we shall admit migrants.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Across the board we see the top executives of some of the world's largest organizations talking about, taking action on, and defining their success in terms of things that have conventionally been the realm of political leaders and NGO activists. The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers.

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We hope this will serve as a powerful motivator to improve leaders’ decision making and bring sustainable business practices further into the mainstream. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective.

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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. It provided Kibreab Kidane with relevant accountancy career information and advice and helped him find an internship in a credit union. Accommodating cultural differences.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 31, 2023

This is being carried out at both the government authority and NGO levels. “In these decision-making processes, where asylum seekers and authorities have a very unequal power relationship, democratic and legal rights are easily subject to pressure.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

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. But to tackle sprawl, multisector coordination is required: roads, rail, land-use, zoning, power, water, and sanitation must work together.

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Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Neuroscientists believe that overoptimism is based on biased information processing in the brain, which makes it difficult to correct overly rosy expectations in the young (this bias might actually be evolutionary efficient , as a powerful driver for seeking progress). As we age, things often don’t turn out as nicely as we planned.

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Crisis Career Bottom-up NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

And in November, after the Philippines faced the most powerful storm ever recorded to hit land, some climatologists suggested we add a “Category 6” to the top end of the storm scale. And America’s wind power has quadrupled over the last 5 years ; wind is now generating enough electricity to power the state of Georgia.

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Supply Chain Energy McKinsey Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

government withdrew funding from all American NGO's, Yemen-EFE was granted an exemption because it is an entirely local entity. The first step to setting up is always to identify 6-12 powerful, dedicated and insightful women and men who are prepared to build the organization from the ground up. At EFE, support hubs in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Second, a new coalition representing many of the world’s largest companies launched in September under the name We Mean Business and issued its own powerful study , offering substantial evidence of the direct business value of investing in low-carbon tech and energy efficiency. A deep shift in how we generate and use power has begun.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

They often have limited power themselves and rely on their role as a trusted, neutral, and honest peer to facilitate difficult conversations between people who don’t agree. Supporting activists to develop new campaign strategies that can build the capacity of NGO’s, as Campaign Lab does in the U.K.

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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.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Another example of an infrastructure patch that has already gotten attention in the West is BRCK, the spin-off commercial service from renowned NGO Ushahidi. That also means that the public services, which in most of these countries command massive spending power, hate to specify their needs for vendors. 5.

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