During more than 30 years of working with corporations to help solve social problems, there’s something that has never happened and never even been discussed: involving an industrial designer. As an ...

Even sophisticated AI systems need human support and institutional capacity to succeed.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Social Security is generally considered politically untouchable, but lawmakers have been fretting about its future for months. In ...

What prompted the idea for the course? As a control systems researcher, I have long felt that control systems – and systems science in general – have much to contribute to solving social problems.

Social problems are like Hydra heads: cut one off, and more appear. This is the frustrating reality that organizations in the philanthropic sector face every day. They try to solve problems to improve ...

Why do we turn to nonprofits, NGOs and governments to solve society’s biggest problems? In this Ted Talk, Michael Porter admits he’s biased, as a business school professor, but he wants you to hear ...

From self-driving cars to virtual assistants, AI has already significantly impacted our daily lives. Perhaps AI’s biggest potential lies in its ability to tackle some of the world’s most pressing ...

“Every few decades, America’s business leaders change their minds about what obligations corporations and the wealthy have to society,” writes David Callahan, an author and a senior fellow at Demos, ...

Economists are fond of saying there are no solutions to social problems, only trade-offs. Often, these trade-offs cannot be known precisely in advance and are inherently tragic. Since March 2022, the ...

Ron Berry believes that “doing good” is in his family’s DNA and draws inspiration from relatives like his cousin Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative, whose bestselling memoir Just Mercy ...