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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As of now, these pros say, the AI tool may not properly consider the nuances involved in issues like education, housing and workforce development. But it’s on the right track. Does ChapGPT know how to ...

“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, ...

Big companies are most likely to give to charity or undertake other social-responsibility efforts because they want to fight national or global problems, according to a new study by Weber Shandwick, a ...