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Pay For Success and Social Innovation Financing: Serving Santa Clara County's Mentally Ill Residents
Brest, P; Schifrin, DCase SGSB-SI133-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn 2016, Santa Clara County was launching a six-year project aimed at reducing the enormous costs of treating its most acute mental health care patients − $45 million a year − while improving their treatment and quality of life. For the project, the county chose a new model called "Pay for Success" (PFS), in which governments only pay service providers if their efforts are successful. By contrast, in the traditional payment model, providers bill...Starting at €8.20
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Bad Arguments and Rationalization in Business
Freeman; R. Edward; Wicks; Andrew C.; Harris; Jared D.; Parmar; Bidhan L.; Mead; JennyTechnical Note DARDEN-E-0406-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe following note attempts to catalog and analyze a set of flawed but common arguments made in business and organizational settings to drive strategic and operational decision-making. The arguments are deconstructed into syllogistic form—a set of premises leading to a conclusion—and analyzed for validity and soundness. The final part of this note pays attention to ways decision-makers can avoid such bad arguments and the rationalization that oft...Starting at €8.20