Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

For years, the answer to the question “Do people really want to buy more sustainable products?” ” Surveys consistently show that we aspire to buy responsibly , and we even say we’ll pay more for environmental or socially preferable products. So why are sustainable products surging now?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

We all want to buy the best products we can find and afford. How about a product that minimizes its environmental impacts or tries to make the world a better place? Identifying the companies that make these more “sustainable” products has been nearly impossible… until now.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. Each major government ministry in China was pitching green products and services at the tradeshow. Its another thing to see the green focus up close.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

This hardly seems right given that multinationals are thought to be awash in money and NGOs have the image of cash-strapped, waste averse organizations — which they are. And NGO leaders need to stop playing the low-overhead-is-good game and lead the charge for adequate general operating support.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I visited Beijing last week, speaking to a group of corporate executives assembled by a major NGO to work on climate change issues. The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors.

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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. 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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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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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].”. But he also bragged about increased production of natural gas and oil.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

For example, [Andrew] Liveris talked about the focus Dow [Chemical] has on great chemistry and designing new sustainable product lines and being willing to cannibalize existing products. HBR: The idea of partnering with NGOs came up in many of the interviews. They’re so far removed from it. Winston : Absolutely.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

One team, for instance, revised a commercial taping product for home use and partnered with Home Depot to sell it. To achieve stretch sales goals, the commercial head of a health care company challenged her global team to boost revenues from older brands without losing focus on their primary products.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

If you have the funds, or your company supports such programs, volunteer (with the help of an NGO) to live in a rural village for a week or allow your people to take mini-sabbaticals or secondments with NGOs to work on development projects. Billions of poor and underprivileged people constitute the largest untapped market in the world.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

But however well intentioned the ideas are, this is not the best use of one of the most productive workforces in the world. Over the last years, labor intensive production keeps moving to ever-cheaper countries. But producers in many of the newer entrants (such as Bangladesh) tend to be small and highly disaggregated.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators. A team of U.S.

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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. — their users to potential problems with the products and services they consume. Precisely how gullible did these wizards of Wolfsburg think people would be?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

The day before the stark story in the Times appeared, I attended a related conference, the Investor Summit on Climate Risk, held at the UN and run by the NGO Ceres. The 20% drop in coal demand was driven mainly by the incredible increase in natural gas production due to fracking technology, not from any concern over greenhouse gases.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

And so a young girl, whose calling — and whose value to the world — may really be to dance, or to build an industry, is hypnotized into becoming the fundraising director for an NGO. What difference does industry make, when it creates new products and jobs that make life better for others? What difference does passion make?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

You might think, given all this production of Davos-related content, that there was a lot of demand for it among readers and viewers. There will be lots more once the conference starts. And of course several of the cable news networks will be conducting endless streams of interviews from Davos. I doubt that. are on hand at Davos.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Whether your goal is to tap this enormous, underserved market for a revolutionary new product, or to impact as many people as possible with a novel healthcare intervention , the question is the same. Decades of hit-or-miss advice from government, companies, and NGO's has reinforced farmers' already skeptical view of new solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Our teams work in partnership to provide technical assistance and training to expand lab workers'' skills, secure pricing agreements to increase access to our products, and design medical technologies appropriate for resource-limited settings. We then, in turn, trained local lab workers, who then trained others. Make a multi-year commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. 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. It may be tempting to assume that you can tough your way through jetlag. You and Your Team. Business Travel.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Ascertaining why and how deeply one’s counterparty needs what you’re offering is central when it comes to relative power — the greater his need for you and/or your product or service, the greater your power, and vice-versa. How does it define its market, or in the case of an NGO or government agency, its central purpose?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

trillion each year , 5% of the global gross domestic product. 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. From there, participants receive set of six interventions over the course of 24 months.

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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. Networks can be developed consciously or arise in evolutionary fashion; either way, their value is in their production and dissemination of knowledge.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

To tackle threats to the future health and wellbeing of people in need, businesses must partner with governments and NGOs, lending their skills, resources, and reach. Understand your audience : We've been in emerging markets for over 100 years, offering products aimed at the bottom of the pyramid as much as for wealthier consumers.

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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. The assembly line, which made workers eight times more productive. What we should be asking is who people are being. Are you being courageous? Are you being authentic? Unstoppable?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality. All of these changes led to big gains for ranchers, who experienced an increase in productivity of 2.3x “But when we implemented sustainable practices, our quality immediately increased.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

It’s a valid question, but disappointingly, almost no NGO can point to evidence of impact. Improved community health has lowered absenteeism in the work force and increased productivity by a measurable amount higher than the cost of the program itself. Have they been effective?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Sure, size can often be correlated to maturity, but we want to know that the service, curriculum, or product the organization is offering has a significant impact on the problem it aims to solve. In our view, those types of growth don't necessarily translate to real and significant impact.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The company would double the size of its business, he said, by channeling its efforts toward achieving eight ambitious goals by 2020 — among them, doubling the proportion of Unilever's portfolio that meets the highest nutritional standards, and halving the water associated with the consumer use of its products.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

We were eager to take this product to the disadvantaged communities who desperately needed it. Little did we know the time and capital it would require for us to get from a concept to a manufactured and clinically tested product — not to mention what it would take to build a distribution channel to sell our product.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

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. For our family, it’s the homecoming routine. Today, Jumia is in nine countries and valued at $550 million.

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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. They will identify risks and opportunities at Dow's facilities and in its products and supply chain, and try to value them correctly. See 15 cool biomimicry stories.).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

When it does, it inflicts pain on the individual suffering it and causes productivity losses for employers. If the burned out Wall Street lawyer and the dissatisfied NGO activist were to change seats, perhaps neither would end up more content. A mid-career crisis can happen to anyone. What are the causes?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

This is where a new financial product, social impact bonds (also known as pay-for-success contracts), can play a role. These financial products create a risk-bearing financial arrangement between public, private, and nonprofit organizations. Innovation in Cities. Corporations might even get involved.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Started by the NGO Ceres, as part of its Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP) initiative, the Climate Declaration is a broad statement of intent that acting on climate will be good for our economy and society. What Companies Are Doing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Something similar has occurred when Chinese consumers have on earlier occasions read the signals for when they were meant to boycott Japanese and South Korean products. national security concerns because they incorporate Chinese technology into their end products. Doing so is neither necessarily easy nor cheap.

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