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Turning Intentions into Action: How to Boldly Implement Gender Lens Investing
There is strong evidence around the business case for investing in women, yet many asset managers and impact investors remain unsure about how to integrate a gender lens into their organization’s investment strategy. Though the process can take time to implement effectively, and will differ from institution to institution, David Venn offers several key questions that can help investors take the first step.
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- Investing
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More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously
We are witnessing a big, transitional moment – akin to the transition from analog to digital, or the realization that globalization is a really big deal. Companies are beginning to realize that paying attention to the longer term, to the perceptions of their company, and to the social consequences of their products is good business.
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Why CEOs of socially responsible companies face a higher risk of getting fired
As a consumer, you may feel a little better knowing that stores where you shop pay their workers a fair wage, hire a diverse workforce and avoid polluting the environment. But if you’re a CEO trying to run your business in this way — known as practicing corporate social responsibility — you may actually be taking on an unexpected personal risk, a new study finds.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Why More CEOs Want to Make a Social Impact
Whether it’s the post-Charlottesville dialogue on racial equity, changes to immigration law that will impact Dreamers, or the Paris Climate Change Accord, we see business leaders advocating in a newly public, vigorous and informed way for solutions that align social progress with their core business interests.
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- Impact Assessment
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- leadership, social impact
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Stanford, De Beers launch $3m African entrepreneurs initiative
The Stanford Graduate School of Business and De Beers Group have announced a three-year, US$3 million partnership aimed at empowering young entrepreneurs and owners of established businesses in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa through two new educational programs.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Influential Health Fund Reboots Its Search for a Leader
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has announced that it is reopening its search for a new executive director. The fund is influential in global health, disbursing about $5 billion a year to fight the three diseases — a budget more than twice as large as the World Health Organization’s.
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- Health Care
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The Global Good Fund Announces 5th Annual Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurs
The Global Good Fund, a social enterprise accelerating the leadership development of high-potential social entrepreneurs tackling the world's greatest challenges, has announced the fifth annual selection of 2017 Global Good Fund Fellows. Increasing its 2016 support of The Global Good Fund Fellowship, this year Johnson & Johnson will sponsor three Fellows who are innovating to solve healthcare challenges.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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- North America
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A vision for WHO for 2017 and beyond
As I turn the calendar page to January 2017, I am keen to look ahead and examine our health challenges for the coming year and decade - challenges with goals and targets which have been well defined in our United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and especially, in the ‘health goal’ or SDG 3 - Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
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- Health Care
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