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

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. That’s why we’re part of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values. Last time I looked, it wasn’t the ‘Global Alliance for Banking on Selected Values.’

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How Big Companies Can Save Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The Syngenta story, like the other three case studies in the article, had a clear protagonist, a "corporate catalyst": someone who marshaled resources both inside and outside the company and built organizational support for the disruptive growth strategy. Consider IBM. Activate resources beyond their immediate control.

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How to Master a New Skill

Harvard Business Review

Second, how much time and energy can you give to the project? Case study #1: Learn by trial and error. Case study #2: Experiment with different approaches. "There are certain limits to what you can learn," explains Weintraub. It's not like going to the pharmacy and getting a prescription filled," says Weintraub.

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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Harvard Business Review

From the start we asked: What are the complexities of financing these homes? How do you get energy and infrastructure into such dwellings? Bhalla used the case study of the chulha stove, co-created by businesses, NGOs, and slum dwellers, to make his point. How do you get corporations to invest in a significant way?

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Why Social Marketing Is So Hard

Harvard Business Review

Brands are spending a great deal of time and energy investing in platforms to get likes or pluses, and not really being social at all. So many brilliant people have been writing, speaking, and sharing case studies over that length of time, that if I only listed a few, I'd miss some really important thinkers.

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When You Should Seek Capital from an Impact Investor

Harvard Business Review

And despite the Global Impact Investing Network's recent report that over $8 billion was invested by impact investors in 2012, it is still common to hear a lot of complaints from both sides: investors bemoan the lack of quality deal flow and social entrepreneurs say it's difficult to find interested investors.