We should be using data to see how we can better target our services; map transportation and commerce to see what patterns and opportunities we find; provide educational content online at LACity.org; and spur the creativity and ingenuity of our people.
"The first opportunity we found was in real estate, and as we work to deepen that traction, we naturally looked to adjacent verticals as well," the company's CEO Jed Carlson told me.
Quite soon after the publication of Crime as Opportunity, we found we were not alone in our views: Cohen and Felson (1979) and the Brantingham and Brantingham (1981) working respectively in the United States and Canada, had persuasively argued that explaining crime involved not merely explaining criminal dispositions but also explaining the role of immediate circumstance and situations.
"The biggest opportunity we found is the if you can survive in Hong Kong with all these head winds, the opportunity, if you can get though that, the sky is limit because you built up a tolerance to all these challenges in front of you.
There's an opportunity we find hard to resist, but first we have to get across the room of Mr. Dunne's duplex apartment.
Here are just a few of the opportunities we've found: "The House of the Seven Gables".
Part of a series called "Foreclosure Fantasy," the boxes represent "opportunities we have found under such conditions: alternative forms of domesticity emerged from foreclosures," according to a descriptive leaflet.
Although well-validated targets, such as epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and CD20, continue to provide opportunities for companies, we found notable trends toward targeting less-well-validated antigens and exploration of innovative MOA such as the generation of anticancer immune responses or recruitment of cytotoxic T cells.
After all hand-hygiene opportunities were assessed, we found that hand-hygiene compliance was significantly better in the old hospital compared to the new hospital (161/304 [53%] vs. 97/417 [23%]; p<0.001).
Rather than doing a broad sweep of all charities, we deeply research the best charitable opportunities we can find and focus on impact: making sure that the interventions of the charities we recommend actually work, cost-effectiveness: so you have the greatest "altruistic bang for your buck", and transparency.
