To address the biggest problems in human health today, we need to take bigger risks on bolder ideas. This means going beyond stepwise progress and asking ourselves “What if?” What if we had a single at-home test that could detect multiple...

Humanity has made significant progress in overcoming some of its greatest challenges, including disease, hunger, and poverty. However, climate change now threatens to reverse this hard-earned progress. Since the Paris Agreement in 2016, the...

2024 has been a year of extremes: the hottest year in recorded history, record-breaking ocean temperatures, and soaring atmospheric CO 2 levels, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. 2023 also saw an increasing frequency of...

The 2023 United Nations Secretary-General’s (UNSG) Progress Report on the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), released earlier this summer, makes for sobering reading. Over half of the 140 measurable SDGs show “moderate or severe...

A decade ago, the cumulative data generated by humankind throughout history reached an impressive 12.5 zettabytes of data, according to Statista—a number on its own so vast it’s nearly incomprehensible. To put this into context, one...

The equity market landscape has been transformed by the explosive growth in the private equity market and a tendency for private companies to stay private longer. These trends have contributed to a multi-decade shift in the mix of public...

In 2022, for the first time in 13 years, developed countries met the annual pledge they had made at COP 15 by mobilizing over $100 billion for developing nations to address their climate needs. While this milestone is important, it is far...

A staggering 1.7 billion adults globally remain excluded from the formal financial system due to factors ranging from infrastructure to education to public policy, according to the World Bank Group. And Brookings reports that the COVID-19...

Nature has long been undervalued and misunderstood. The belief that nature exists to serve humankind is dangerous for the planet and people. A modern worldview of the importance of nature should take its cue from the findings of The...

Asian companies are seeing a confluence of economic and societal factors that will accelerate their global expansion in the coming decade. Gen Z has been an important driving force in enabling Asian brands to go global. According to the...