How to Create the Conditions for Social Intrapreneurs to Thrive
Four ways companies seeking to align their corporate strategies and business processes with the Sustainable Development Goals can foster social innovation from within.
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Six Lessons for Getting Work Training and Employment Right
Strategies for successfully filling the skills gap for companies, and helping millions of unemployed youth and others find jobs.
Realizing the SDGs Through Transformational Corporate-NGO Partnerships
Reflections on a 50-year partnership between an international NGO and multi-national corporation, and why working together in true partnership is the only way to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.
Why We Need to Nurture Entrepreneurship in Young Girls
Existing programs that promote and support women’s entrepreneurship help address the inequality that currently exists, but they don’t reach women early enough.
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Be Green and Save a Little
An excerpt of Magali A. Delmas and David Colgan's The Green Bundle: Pairing the Market with the Planet.
An Operating Model to Make Social Innovation Stick
The former chief innovation officer at USAID outlines a way for social sector organizations and funders to build innovation into their DNA.
Land Rights Pose Opportunities, Not Just Risks, to Companies and Social Justice
By focusing on four critical aspects of land rights, businesses can not only manage risks, but also do a great deal of global good while strengthening their bottom lines.
Three Ways Businesses Can Improve Their Women’s Economic Empowerment Programs
Corporate programs that focus on women’s economic empowerment need to incorporate women-centered, context-specific design and business-aligned measurement from the start.
Business Models for Building Refugee Resilience
A new era of business collaboration is rising to address humanitarian crises, and the humanitarian sector can help bring these new models to scale.
Can Business Really Step Up to Help Solve Global Problems?
This article series, produced in partnership with Business Fights Poverty, explores how global companies are stepping up to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and includes practical ideas and guidance for business leaders of today.