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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

more complex medical conditions and patient segments in order to access expertise, facilities and services to enable high-value care Rural and community hospitals can take on new roles through affiliation View Details

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National Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Development in Inner Cities Economic Development in Rural Areas Cluster Studies International Cluster Competitiveness Profiles National Competitiveness National Competitiveness Creating and sustaining national prosperity has become more... View Details

09 Apr 2007
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Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

workers do which activities? What is a living wage, and how does that vary by country and by urban or rural setting? These are questions for which we just don't have good answers yet. So it is not surprising that firms might disagree with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Oct 2020
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IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

including two economic recessions. Smaller cities and rural areas were excluded because of missing data for at least one year during this time period. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Greenstein and Cao parsed both the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

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Meagan Hill

then form a revised view. But it's great training for any career path." Meagan is part of a Mohawk community from a small rural town southwest of Toronto. She believes her classmates' wide range of "backgrounds, ethnicities, and... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

CEO Joseph Jimenez was considering how and whether to deepen the company's investment in Arogya Parivar, its profitable program that sold Novartis medicines in rural India, while expanding access to medicine and health information to... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small

If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

28 Feb 2023
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Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

rates, says Fuller, who suggests more targeted guidance and outreach to shrink the gap. In recent years, CareerWise has begun to expand, with new programs in cities including New York and Washington, DC, as well as rural locations in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Sep 2023
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MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

their interest. On the other hand, I have also come to know many more local organizations and individuals, capable in different ways to solve the same problem. This helped me to rethink my approach: instead of parents and home, focus on teachers and girls in school,... View Details

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

Chopra GMP 2012 | Founder & CEO, Metafin “Metafin is India’s first vertically integrated clean energy lender enabling access to energy and financial inclusion in rural India. With over 600 solar projects enabled, Metafin’s customized... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

If the company is successful, that equity pays dividends. At C.H.I. Overhead Doors in rural Illinois, which offered equity grants shortly after KKR acquired the company in 2015, the first dividends were paid in May 2017. “I had colleagues... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

but for Cisco customers, increasing industry growth. The program has also strengthened Cisco’s relationships with suppliers, customers and government. Integrating Strategy Across Levels - Novartis in Rural India Reconceiving Products &... View Details

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Collection Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti by Robert S. Kaplan and Mahek A. Shah Partners in Health, a global NGO focused on delivering health care to residents of rural underserved communities, conducts a project on the... View Details

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Charlotte MacDonald

future, Charlotte says she has "a couple of hypotheses to test. My short-term plan is to return to BCG in Toronto. I grew up in a more rural environment, with a slower economy. My long-term ambition is to return home to Atlantic... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

10 Oct 2023
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Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

https://www.energy.gov/diversity/justice40-initiative. “Justice40 Initiative Covered Programs List.” The White House. April 21, 2023. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Justice40-Covered-Programs-List_v1.4_04-20-2023.pdf. “Landowners: Generating... View Details

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

rural regions, and regulatory uncertainties. “One of the exciting things about Alibaba and Ant Financial is Jack Ma’s vision of financial inclusion across China. So you have rural potato farmers who have... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Competitiveness of States & Regions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Development in Inner Cities Economic Development in Rural Areas Cluster Studies International Cluster Competitiveness Profiles Competitiveness of State... Competitiveness of States & Regions Prosperity levels vary dramatically within... View Details

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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Development in Inner Cities Economic Development in Rural Areas Cluster Studies International Cluster Competitiveness Profiles Cluster Studies Cluster Studies Clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, specialized... View Details

29 Jun 2016
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The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

Leight “50 Million Years of Work Could be Lost to Anxiety and Depression” by Sam Jones, The Guardian, April 12, 2016 “Cognitive behaviour therapy-based intervention by community health workers for mothers with depression and their infants in View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

Rumi, the company has grown into a successful for-profit social enterprise that ships spices directly from farmers in Afghanistan to a certification plant in Turkey, then to their Chicago office for distribution. In addition to Jung, Miller, and Alaniz, Carol Wang, who... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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