Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. HBR: The idea of partnering with NGOs came up in many of the interviews. The result will be innovation.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

He was an experienced forestry engineer who had managed a number of different cacao and coffee projects in the region. Our first hire in Ecuador was a great man named Fausto. We met Fausto through a friend of a friend of a friend. A driven man who had a natural ability to lead, Fausto gained our confidence.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES. Healthcare Leaders.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

They applied her discoveries to an Autodesk research project called Primordial, and at McManus’s urging, it was Lisa who presented the project to 400 top executives and clients. Dara Dotz is removing obstacles to rapid recovery in humanitarian disasters with her NGO, Field Ready.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He was on the creative planning team for catalyst, works with leadership development of Chick-Fil-A, and is quarterbacking many projects for well known leaders. He has recently aquired ownership of The Whiteboard Sessions (a conference designed for leaders & strategy). To learn more about Jason check him out @ [link] Mike Henry Sr.

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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.

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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].”. The growing divestment movement, led by the NGO 350.org The Stick: Regulation .

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Rather than a funding gap, there is a bankable projects gap : the projects themselves are not attractive to investors. Rather than attracting mostly single-project debt investors who pander to timid underwriters obsessively guarding against downside risk, social impact bonds would reframe negotiations to spotlight upside potential.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

In early June, at the invitation of the European Commission to Brussels (Belgium), I toured some fascinating AI and blockchain-based projects, which the Commission is funding. KATERYNA/KONSCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Alexandra, a project manager, was asked by her boss to support a leader who has having family issues and needed help doing his work. When Patria, a program leader in an NGO, was asked by her director to help a colleague whose team was having trouble managing its workload, she agreed. Turn a request for help into a negotiation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

They acknowledge how delicate new projects, new business models, new strategies feel during the creative process so they create safe spaces where pioneers can meet, test, and refine their ideas over and over before being released into the world. But funding is critically needed to get these projects off the ground and to sustain them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

While our primary focus is in India, Embrace is doing pilot projects with NGO partners in 10 countries, and we hope to further scale this year. The for-profit arm, Embrace Innovations, would raise money from venture capitalists — though our first screening criteria would be investors who were aligned with our social mission.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Is this a big project for this person or entity, or a small, relatively insignificant project? How many such projects are they handling currently? How does it define its market, or in the case of an NGO or government agency, its central purpose? How is this person rewarded in his or her organization?

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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. We drew on our experience with the Shakti women to inform the Waterworks project that we are currently running with PSI. And our insight is not limited to products.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. When business is conducted globally, we often have to travel long distances to launch projects, meet with partners, negotiate deals, address crises, manage customer relations, and engage in a variety of other activities on the behalf of our organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

In total, these brands are projected to reach revenues of $1 billion at Target alone this year. The collaboration, which the NGO Forum for the Future is managing, has high aspirations. With this level of topline growth, it’s no wonder that Target wants more options.

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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. But perhaps more importantly, the project will be an open-source exercise, with the partners sharing all the tools and lessons learned.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Further, how can we engender the rock star aura of American entrepreneurship in places where NGO and government jobs are safer career bets for would-be, could-be, should-be startup founders? Right now, dozens of other agencies, in addition to USAID, run foreign aid projects.) We are talking about the U.S.

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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. Mobile Messaging: In early 2008, frog embarked on Project Masiluleke, a Public Private Partnership (PPP) to address HIV in South Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

The whole procedure can take up to 8 years and is full of obstacles — even though the EU is projected to be short of more than 200,000 physicians by 2020. This is not to say that civil servants and NGO volunteers are not well meaning. You will be sent back to medical school if you want to practice in Belgium.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

At the same time, as material consumption in emerging economies rises, we also face the fact that, as of the end of 2011, the Earth now contains seven billion people ; by 2050, that global population is projected to reach nine billion. The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

This successful project works with 50 refugee doctors each year. There are also similar UK projects for teachers, nurses, and academics. But the number of people that this NGO can place is very small. But the numbers benefiting from these initiatives are still painfully small and government support is needed to scale them up.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Over one-third of the world's largest companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project are already seeing the impacts of climate change on their business. This is the focus of my next project.). So with life-and-death consequences and vast costs, we must have moved quickly to tackle climate change, right? In the U.S., on to 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

” During one of these meetings, Paul was introduced to the director of an NGO. “The director didn’t have a fulltime job that was quite right for me, but she offered me a consulting project that involved me interviewing the heads of other NGOs in the region,” he says. “It was perfect.

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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. Much of the corruption that vendors feel is inherent in tender, procurement, and public-private-partnership IT projects in emerging markets is not all due to unethical government bosses.

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