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The “Business in Society” Imperative for CEOs

Harvard Business Review

These include legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement, litigation, ethics, reputation, crisis management, corporate citizenship, and pressures from public officials, NGOs, and the media. The challenges of business-in-society issues arise in many different settings.

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How We Transformed Emergency Care at Our Hospital

Harvard Business Review

We were on ambulance diversion for at least eight of every 24 hours, often longer. Other local EDs actually had betting pools on how long it would take us to go back on diversion after we came off. Virtually no patients leave our ED without being seen, and we are never, ever on ambulance diversion.

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Career Bankers Alone Can’t Solve the Financial Industry’s Problems

Harvard Business Review

A lot has changed in the banking industry since the crisis in 2008 , especially in terms of regulation and compliance. Most of the leading financial institutions are still led by career bankers — in some cases the same people who led these institutions through the crisis.

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