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The Social Sector Office (SSO) was recently created to ensure the best capabilities of McKinsey are available to help the world’s leading institutions address important societal challenges.
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How Private Health Care Can Help Africa
The McKinsey Quarterly, March 2008
In Nigeria, Kenya, and elsewhere, the private sector already serves more than 40 percent of the people in the lowest economic quintile. With the right investments, it could do even more.
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Assessing the Impact of Societal Issues: A McKinsey Global Survey
The McKinsey Quarterly, November 2007
Executives place the environment and climate change in a class of their own when evaluating the impact of societal issues on shareholder value. They also indicate that companies are getting a little better at managing sociopolitical issues and understanding what the public wants.
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The Business of Health in Africa
A new report by the International Finance Corporation, uses research and analysis by McKinsey to examine how to grow the private health sector to improve health in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Addressing Africa's health workforce crisis
The McKinsey Quarterly, November 2007
Members of the public, private and social sectors all have a role to play in solving the African health worker crisis.
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How the World's Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top
A new report examines the common characteristics of school systems producing students who perform well on international tests.
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Building Better Partnerships for Global Health
By correcting some flaws, global health partnerships can save even more lives in desperately poor countries.
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The Dynamic Board: Lessons from High-Performing Nonprofits
What do the boards of the best nonprofits do? Our answer, developed through a series of interviews with leading nonprofit organizations, suggests that a set of roles–prioritized according to environmental factors–and structural enablers play a part.
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The Power of Vision
For any organization to succeed–and especially for nonprofits–leaders need to have vision. That can be easier said than done, but leaders need to do the hard work to not only find their vision, but also maintain it.
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Effective Capacity Building in Nonprofit Organizations
This report brings some common language to the discussion of capacity building, and offers insights and examples of how nonprofits have pursued building up their organizational muscle.
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