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Health care communites can help.

Getting promising drug discoveries out of university labs and into the drug pipeline is more difficult than it should be.

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Environmental conservation and business investment are not mutually exclusive, argues the CEO of the Nature Conservancy.

Protest movements don't emerge merely because people have something to protest. Many other factors come into play.

Racial integration in US schools has declined in the wake of recent court decisions to release districts from earlier desegregation orders.

Political reform alone doesn't ensure good government. Equally important, if not more so, are institutions that let citizens act collectively.

Public sector innovators are improving government by replicating the market conditions that have fostered breakthroughs in the private sector.

The nonprofit sector has taken on the management of a wide range of heretofore government services. Some portions of mass transit should be next.

NGOs, social entrepreneurs, impact investors, and philanthropists need to help slow climate warming.

Connecting information, applications, data, and people—a report from the Stanford 2013 Healthcare Innovation Summit.

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