Humanitarian and resilience investing in the COVID-19 era
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens already fragile social and economic systems and could potentially impact the lives of up to 2 billion people. Based on estimates by the World Bank, it woul...
Wendy Woods is BCG's Vice Chair, Social Impact, Climate & Sustainability.
Wendy helps lead BCG's work addressing global health, development, education, environment and climate, humanitarian response, and total societal impact. She works with corporate, government, and social sector clients and is closely involved with BCG's partnerships with the World Food Programme, Save the Children, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Yunus Social Business, WWF, and Teach For All.
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens already fragile social and economic systems and could potentially impact the lives of up to 2 billion people. Based on estimates by the World Bank, it woul...
Every society represented at Davos this year undoubtedly has a saying equivalent to the American expression “Put your money where your mouth is”. The meaning should be clear: it’s not goo...
The Business Roundtable, which represents many of the largest US-based companies, surprised a lot of people when it publicly endorsed the idea that, in addition to shareholders, corporati...
In my decades as a strategy consultant, I’ve seen companies grapple with everything from cutting costs to finding new sources of growth. I’ve also helped them in their efforts to tackle c...
Just two years ago, Ebola ripped through West Africa, resulting in 11,000 deaths and orphaning more than 16,000 children. My colleagues and I at The Boston Consulting Group responded to a...