A Financial Innovations Lab hosted by the Milken Institute with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was held in London in October 2010 to examine two of the primary threats to sustainable agricultural development in Sub-Saharan...

There are currently 130 million homes in the United States—and their combined residential energy usage accounts for 20 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. Studies have consistently found that nationwide energy efficiency...

From the initial stages of the meltdown in subprime home loans to the government’s relief programs, the turmoil in the U.S. financial sector has sent shock waves throughout the global economic arena. Today, federal and state governments...

The 2008 global financial crisis left people with less money to feed their families and institutions with fewer resources to help. At the time of the lab, hunger impacted 1B people, 65% of whom were concentrated in seven countries. Despite...

The Israeli life science industry is at a crossroads. Having matured for over a decade, during which time academic research and industrial development initiated successful collaborations, the potential for added growth is enormous. Through...

In the fall of 2005, the Milken Institute held two Financial Innovations Labs, one in Santa Monica, Calif., and the other in New York City, to address the crisis of diminished fund- ing for biomedical research and development, and to...