Could Mindset - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

but we're kind of the canaries in the coal mine—in that our business is risk. Our job is to price risk and thus predict risk.” Up until 2012, Liberty could just trend past weather data into the future and get reasonably close predictions.... View Details

08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

and missed opportunities that could be addressed. This is also a time to strengthen partnerships with other organizations in a similar space. Rather than compete, you can find ways to multiply your impact by working together. You can... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Jun 2020
News

Homeschooled

at-home access to devices and the internet is a must-have. I hope this crisis changes our mindset about that. Khan Academy doesn’t solve that problem, but we can use our soapbox to help advocate for that. There seems to be writing on the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; online learning; Educational Services

12 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

equipment between batches using styrene, which becomes a costly hazardous waste. Having worked on minimizing waste for the past 20 years, CCP believed it could not reduce the use of styrene without risking product quality. Instead, CCP... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Aug 2020
News

What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

stay. For instance, the pervasiveness of remote work, the reduction in business travel will be longer-term contributors to reduce CO2. Potentially people being more comfortable cooking at home—cooking more plant-based meals at home could... View Details

28 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

found many firms mistakenly applied an "outsourcing" mindset to collaboration efforts which, in turn, led to three critical errors: First, they focused solely on lower costs, failing to consider the broader strategic role of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 May 2018
News

Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders

or finding freedom is 80% mindset and 20% strategy. And I was focused on the strategy for those seven years in trying different tools and different avenues. And it wasn't until I adopted a new set of beliefs about myself that the strategy... View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

these social leaders viewed those advantages as a vehicle for contributing to solutions of certain social problems. According to Juan Carr, founder of the Solidarity Network (Red Solidaria, hence RS), the institution's mission "to improve life conditions for needy... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

03 Jul 2024
News

Surviving the Iditarod

would potentially prepare me for the South Pole. Training for the ITI is really difficult. A lot of it actually is trying to think about what your mindset is going to be out there, how uncomfortable you're going to be, how difficult... View Details

28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

behaviors led to undesirable consequences, even if they saw those behaviors as acceptable before they knew the consequences. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that a rational, analytic mindset can override the effects of one's... View Details