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Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women: A Public-Private Partnership

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women: A Public-Private Partnership

The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women initiative was launched as a $100 million initiative to foster economic growth by providing female entrepreneurs with business education and access to capital.

CARE-Cargill Partnership: Nourishing the Future in Central America: A Public-Private Partnership

CARE-Cargill Partnership: Nourishing the Future in Central America: A Public-Private Partnership

Nourishing the Future tackles the issues of malnourishment and poverty by addressing the needs of both the rural farmers and local communities.

Partnering for Poultry: A Public-Private Partnership

Partnering for Poultry: A Public-Private Partnership

Focusing on two regions of Ethiopia, Amhara and Tigray, the partnership seeks to improve productivity and reduce costs by increasing access to improved poultry breeds and training smallholder farmers to raise them effectively.

The Accenture and Upwardly Global Partnership: A Public-Private Partnership

The Accenture and Upwardly Global Partnership: A Public-Private Partnership

In order to help skilled immigrants and refugees secure professional employment, the Accenture and Upwardly Global Partnership launched an online job-training platform that provides free interactive trainings on acculturation, job search skills, resume writing and interviewing.

Sanitation Marketing Systems in Bangladesh: A Public-Private Partnership

Sanitation Marketing Systems in Bangladesh: A Public-Private Partnership

Sanitation Marketing Systems in Bangladesh was a finalist for the annual P3 Impact Award, which recognizes leading public-private partnerships that improve communities around the world.

Bigger Than the Grasshopper and the Ant: A Macroeconomic View of Saving for Retirement

Bigger Than the Grasshopper and the Ant: A Macroeconomic View of Saving for Retirement

Darden Professor Dan Murphy believes that, in a recession, pro-savings policies should in fact be turned upside down — just for a time — to account for the macroeconomic situation.

Daniel Murphy

Daniel Murphy

An expert in economics and public policy, Murphy researches the nature of consumer demand and its implications for market outcomes.

Use Strategic Buckets: How to Succeed at Innovation

Use Strategic Buckets: How to Succeed at Innovation

How does a big company make good decisions to launch new products that might fatten up the bottom line and keep it innovative and growing? Find out now.

The Innovation Dream Team: Opposites Succeed

The Innovation Dream Team: Opposites Succeed

The crux of design thinking is that it embraces both creativity and analytical thinking to solve problems; two sides of the design thinking coin, both are essential to the design thinking process.

Eastern Philosophies, Western Strategies: Strategic Intuition

Eastern Philosophies, Western Strategies: Strategic Intuition

To thrive in a global economy, managers need to be aware not only of linear analytics and Western economics, but also aspects of Eastern philosophy, like letting go of desire and control — perhaps unexpected lessons at a business school.