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.

Uncharitable, is a new documentary that introduces a radical new way of giving that can make the world work for everyone. A new documentary titled Uncharitable could fundamentally change what ...

Social media is central in many of our lives, but few would say that’s a good thing. Despite its initial promise, swathes of Europeans feel the technology has had a negative impact on society. While ...

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted ...

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.

When Carrie Diaz Eaton trained as a mathematician, they didn’t expect their career to involve social-justice research. Growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, Diaz Eaton first saw social justice in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...