Harnessing science for business

Harnessing core business for development impact - ODI Background Notes

‘C reative capitalism’, ‘inclusive business’, ‘doing well by doing good’, ‘harnessing core competencies’, ‘social enterprise’, ‘ethical trade’, delivering ‘shared value’ to stakeholders and shareholders. All of these terms and ideas have one fundamental idea in common. They are based on the view that, through the operation of core business on commercial terms, businesses can benefit poor people...

Design Science for Business Management

This issue of the Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science explores the connection between design science and business management. The relationship may not be obvious since it is rather subtle in some instances. However, the nature of problems that design science is confronted with is analogous to the nature of problems business management tackles. Both design science and business manag...

Working Pasteur's Quadrant: harnessing science and action for community change.

Community psychology in general and the field of prevention in particular has unquestioningly accepted the assumption that the research process should proceed in a linear fashion from a search for basic knowledge to application in the community context. This ignores the compelling insight offered by Stokes (1997) that the drive for new knowledge and the pursuit of application can be combined in...

Harnessing new science is vital for biodefense and global health.

W ith the impending Congressional approval of Project Bioshield (S. 15 and H.R. 2122), the United States will be taking new steps to prepare itself against the prospect of bioterrorism. The bills provide incentives to the private, for-profit sector to develop diagnostics, vaccines, and drugs against biological threats. In addition, through a program launched in fiscal year 2003, the National In...

Harnessing the Science of Persuasion for Expert Witness Testimony