This week, 3,500 of the world’s most creative and influential leaders from more than 60 nations will gather in Los Angeles for the 18th annual Milken Institute Global Conference. Over the years, the Global Conference has tackled the world’s...

Can baby boomers searching for answers to the challenges of ageism look to millennials for lessons in self-empowerment? The culture of aging is changing as more and more boomers seek to remain active, productive and purposefully engaged...

When it achieved independence 50 years ago, Singapore was an unexceptional place, other than for its challenges. With few natural resources, weak infrastructure and year-round tropical heat, there was little reason to believe in the...

My life’s work has taken me down a path where I’ve learned and witnessed the incredible power of online education, and how it can be scaled to improve the future and quality of health care. My journey began 20 years ago in a general...

Forgive some boomers for feeling a bit disheartened. They’re learning a lot about themselves while advancing through middle age and into later life, and the news can be unpleasant. An accumulation of recent surveys and studies indicates...

C all it my aha moment if you will—the other day, I watched in amazement as my two-and-a-half-year-old grandson keyed in the passcode to unlock the iPad. His finger swiped over the screen and for a moment, I thought he was going to skip the...

Millions of parents in low-income Asian communities live in fear that their children will miss out on a quality education. And as societies continue to rapidly urbanize, many are migrating to cities in search of better opportunities for...

There’s a lot of discussion around disruption these days. We all can likely think of at least one company in recent months that either failed to stay close to the customer, missing critical signals that sealed their fate, or that became so...

The recent college admissions scandal has accomplished something positive: it has prompted people to talk in a more honest way about unequal access to education and other building blocks of prosperity. It starts with access to things such...

I’m an optimist by nature. I see challenges as opportunities. I always imagine a brighter future for my grandchildren. That’s not to say my outlook isn’t occasionally tested. Take the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that has led...