Can Charity Make Big Brother Benevolent?
What would Hari Seldon think of big data?
Global Issues - Articles
Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health (more)
Can a “Like” Save a Life?
A Georgetown University and Waggener Edstrom study sheds new light on the debate surrounding the effectiveness of online influence.
Product Paternalism
Women’s empowerment means voter choice, partner choice, healthcare choice, reproductive choice, career choice, and consumer choice.
What is The Future of Hospital Community Benefit Programs?
Health systems need to rethink their programs to take full advantage of health reform—and reframe their value to the communities they serve.
Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself
Real assets can have real environmental impact and are ideal investments for young people with new wealth.
From Technocracy to a Practical Politics
For the environmental movement to succeed, it needs to convert its ideas, science, theories, and activism into practical politics that can win votes on a large scale.
Where Is the BOP Health Care Fortune?
Research shows that healthcare social enterprises are segmenting the BOP and leaving the bottom 50 percent of consumers behind.
The Commodification of Architecture
Catastrophes of the built environment, like the Bangladeshi factory collapse, expose the true cost in public suffering when we fail to build resiliently.
Mandatory CSR in India: A Bad Proposal
Looked at from the perspective of the political right, and the left, and the center, the proposed law making CSR mandatory is a really bad idea.
It Can Be Smart to Dumb Things Down
Keeping your message simple helps mobilize people in support of your goals.