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Collaboration for Change: Multi-Sector Partnerships in Sustainable Medical and Sharps Waste Management

Strategy Driven

Case Study: Houston’s Multi-Sector Approach In Houston, this collaborative spirit is palpable. The Global Perspective: Lessons from Abroad While Houston offers a compelling case study, it’s essential to recognize global efforts. Yet, solutions often remain localized.

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The Happiness Advantage: Escaping the Cult of the Average

Strategy Driven

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula.

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Case Study: When Should A Rising Star Make Her Pregnancy Public?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. She appreciated how hard Zach was trying, but she couldn't muster the energy to play along. Anything for you?" the waiter asked Betsy Sugarman. A Higher Standard.

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How to Speak Up About Ethical Issues at Work

Harvard Business Review

Ethical situations at work can be cause for alarm, and are also a normal part of doing business,” says Detert. That’s why it’s important to not only know how to recognize an ethical issue but how to raise it — especially one that may be more of a gray area, she says. ” Talk to the perpetrator first.

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Make Sure Your Team’s Workload Is Divided Fairly

Harvard Business Review

“You are managing the energy and brainpower of an entire group,” she says. “There needs to be a clearly articulated and repeated value that everyone ought to be equally contributing his or her talents, skills, and energy,” she says. “I knew her work ethic,” he says. Have a plan.

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The Happiness Advantage: Researching Happiness at Hogwarts

Strategy Driven

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula.

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Case Study: Can an Ethical Bank Support Guns and Fracking?

Harvard Business Review

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. A Green Vision.