During an ACC academic conference in September of 2019, Julia DeVoy wrote the words “design thinking and innovation” on a sticky note. Reflecting on this topic, DeVoy led a small group discussion with ...

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 ...

Businesses used to play a large role in their communities. In small towns, villages, and neighborhoods, business owners and managers lived among their customers, suppliers, and workers. But somewhere ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

It turns out that teaching kids problem solving may be among the most promising and proven practices to prevent bullying and reduce the odds of victimization. It is a strategy often overlooked, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...