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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.

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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. “But

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Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

Harvard Business Review

Paul Kennedy's seminal Rise and Fall of the Great Powers captures the way technological and economic advances have converted into strategic advantage, and how failure to "lock in" that edge accelerates imperial decline. Technik , then, is the technological quotient of civilization. It pledges $1.5 The contrast between the U.N.'s

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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 Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the former Houston Natural Gas moniker. Yet, when the company shifted from being an energy supplier to the hucksterish energy trader, the charitable activities were dispensed with. The News Media. The Auditing Firm Employed by Enron.