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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business

We see this in our research at Columbia University and have identified many examples where CEOs benefit their businesses by partnering across sectors with public officials, nonprofit managers, and community members. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale.

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business

The answer is yes, as we found in the example of Ascension , the largest nonprofit health system in the United States. Under the leadership of Anthony Tersigni, Ascension’s president and CEO, the organization has sought to become much more efficient at delivering health care. The question is: Could U.S.

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The Power of Zilch: An interview with Nancy Lublin

The Nonprofit Consultant

One of my pet peeves has always been when well-meaning, but somewhat clueless outsiders tell us in the nonprofit sector that we need to be "more businesslike." Her lessons and leadership are great examples, not just for business leaders, but also for our peers in the nonprofit world. But my readers are all in the nonprofit sector.

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Why the World Needs Doctors with These 3 Qualities

Harvard Business

Business discipline: The third key quality of doctorpreneurs is that they pay close attention to finances, capital spending, and management processes because they understand that if their organization is not highly productive, it will not survive and cannot achieve its purpose of serving the greatest number of people.

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Business Lessons from Henry David Thoreau

Emerson Consulting Group

So inspired to uncover a solution to this, Henry took himself back to Harvard for a week to engage in an MBA-like “independent study” project, specifically aimed at how to fashion a “recipe” for pencil lead that would transform Thoreau pencils into an efficient product that everyone could use and love.

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When Selling, Ask Questions, Rank Your Prospects … and Listen!

Emerson Consulting Group

These will often heighten your efficiency as to who should be considered a worthwhile prospect to meet with at all, thereby increasing each sales call’s likelihood of success. which transforms business consultants, CEOs, attorneys, finance experts and other business leaders and their companies into published “thought leaders.”

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How the Data That Internet Companies Collect Can Be Used for the Public Good

Harvard Business

Finally, corporations can share data with a limited number of trusted intermediaries, such as the UK’s Consumer Data Research Centre and the international development nonprofit NetHope , to enable data analysis and modeling, as well as other value chain activities. How the Exchange of Data Can Help Solve Public Problems.

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