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- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
the colloquium is to help leaders in businesses and society create social value for their communities, while in parallel strengthening their organizations. The study centered on forty organizations—twenty NGOs (non-governmental... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
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Frequently Asked Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
present day? Our students do not want to know about the past. The design of the CEM project was specifically to focus on leaders of business and NGOs with thirty or forty years of experience, so we could capture the vast changes seen in... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
reliably meet the demand generated by these evolving clean energy technologies. These are but a few of the many opportunities corporate leadership will need to bring into its deliberations on strategy and resource allocation. Also, in these 20 months we have seen donor... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
LaMure (HBS MBA '02), is that targeted corporate executives who decide to ignore NGO protests do so at their own peril. Spar and LaMure recently detailed the rising power of NGOs and corporate responses in... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprise Forum Discusses Strategy
ChildrenU.S. has responded to changing societal norms. A second case considered how NGOs can improve their organizational performance by using strategic frameworks from the private and public sectors. Another session, titled Strategy and... View Details
- Profile
Rawiah Abdallah
members administered health services, microfinance loans, and vocational training. They taught English and computer skills. "I became very passionate about development," says Rawiah. "But I saw a lot of inefficiencies in View Details
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Global Leadership Roundtables | Institute for Business in Global Society
business leaders, NGO executives, government officials, and scholars to discuss emerging best practices and the challenges that leaders encounter when they address significant societal issues. Each event focuses on a region-specific issue... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
locally grown coca fibers for the manufacture of head rests and seats. With the help of Brazilian NGOs and the U.S. government's Inter-American Foundation, he found a community organization called POEMA in the impoverished northern part... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Career Coach
Aspen Wang
appointment, please send Aspen a quick email as well as signing up on calendly. Work Experience: Trimtab Impact (Impact Investing), Imagine Worldwide (Edtech NGO in developing countries) and McKinsey & Company (Strategy Consultant) View Details
- Portrait Project
Sarina Hickey
NGO mission to rescue girls sold into sex slavery. Some were badly burned or beaten. Others too catatonic to know reality from nightmare. All robbed of their childhood. She passed away not two hours after our team liberated her from her... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Corruption
Henry Motte-Munoz (MBA 2013) is cofounder of Bantay, an NGO that educates Filipinos about their rights to good government services and gives them tools to obtain these services without paying bribes. “The people who are corrupt, you know... View Details
- 31 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
the less government involvement there is, the better,” says Oberholzer-Gee. “In fact, a number of the competitive advantages enjoyed by companies have come from the regulations that governments impose on markets.” In the course’s last module, Oberholzer-Gee turns to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Non-Government Organizations in the 21st Century by John A. Quelch and Nathalie Laidler-Kylander (Thomson South-Western) Using twelve HBS cases, Professor Quelch and Laidler-Kylander (MBA ’92) examine how NGOs like Oxfam America, Doctors... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success
Yusuf Keshavjee (OPM 17, 1991) helps African farmers and their families escape poverty through beekeeping. He cofounded Honey Care Africa (HCA), a private-sector enterprise in Kenya that partners with local NGOs and international... View Details
- 12 May 2021
- News
Aid from Afar
working with GiveIndia to channel funds directly to NGOs that have been authorized to supply equipment and supplies to hospitals and COVID care centers in India. Funds are dispersed by GiveIndia to nonprofit partners to supply equipment... View Details