Why We Can’t Shop Our Way to Sustainability
Consumers will never solve the climate crisis. To build sustainability, business leaders must partner with government and society to re-focus their companies on new forms of market exchange.
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How to Ensure Medical Devices Help Communities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Governments, foundations, and social enterprises that want to ramp up the production and distribution of medical equipment in response to COVID-19 and other ongoing threats need to assess the process holistically or risk overpromising and underdelivering on important aid. Part of a series on civil society's response to the pandemic.
Bridging the Divide
How Youth Junction is training rural youth in India for urban jobs.
Frugal Innovation for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Crises
Organizations that reuse, repurpose, recombine, and rapidly innovate under resource and time pressures can help build a more inclusive and sustainable future.
Q&A Roundtable: The Future of Impact Finance
Six leading members of the Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium discuss trends, predictions, foibles, and tensions related to the rapidly growing field their group has been focused upon for the past four years. The first article in the Impact Investing Today and Tomorrow in-depth series.
Impact Investing Today and Tomorrow
A consortium of more than 190 professors focused on impact investing share new insights into the rapidly changing field at a critical juncture in its development.
The Problem With COVID-19 Artificial Intelligence Solutions and How to Fix Them
How nonprofit and business leaders can equitably and responsibly use AI systems in the fight against COVID-19.
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Innovating for a Higher Purpose
An excerpt from Fearless Innovation delves into new potentials for innovation as a driving force in the social sector.
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How Private Sector Leadership Can Fight the Biodiversity Crisis
An excerpt from Strategic Corporate Conservation Planning details the efforts of companies, governments, and communities to remediate polluted lands.
Data-Centering the Community
Endeavoring to be a good neighbor, Microsoft supplements its data centers with local investments to boost economic and social development. A Field Report from the Summer 2020 issue.