Cultivating Serendipity
A new book prescribes an active approach to managing uncertainty and creating positive outcomes in a fast-changing world.
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Social Issues - Articles
A Third Space of Proximity
How a college-in-prison nonprofit continues to teach during prison quarantine.
COVID-19 Is Challenging Medical and Scientific Publishing
To transform how early medical data is shared, reviewed, and published, MIT and UC Berkeley are developing a new model of academic publishing.
Climate Action Is Too Big for ESG Mandates
As a macro risk factor, climate change needs to be disentangled from the other social and governance mandates in the ESG investing rubric.
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Insuring the Future of Work
Hire Purpose proposes how the insurance industry’s practice of actuarial science can be utilized to train a new generation of workers in the COVID-19 world.
SSIR Guide to Voting, Civic Engagement, and Repairing Democracy
Articles on getting voters to the polls and fixing American democracy ahead of a presidential election that is shaping up to be one of the most contentious ever.
How NGOs Can Work With Governments to Build Partnerships That Will Scale
Four lessons from Togo on scaling health care innovation through the public sector.
Seeding the Ground for Tri-Sector Alliances Before the Crisis Hits
COVID-19 has forced business, government, and philanthropy to combine forces quickly to respond to community needs. Here are five principles for making organic, public-private alliances an ongoing force for change.
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The Cooperation Imperative
Modern China calls for economic cooperation between China and the West.
How Higher Education Can Support Local Ecosystems of Innovation
Supporting innovation should not be a top-down approach premised on straitjacketing program designs.