As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.

ESG has become increasingly mainstream for investors in recent years, as part of a broader wave to embrace purpose and stakeholder capitalism: More than $100 trillion in assets under management (AUM) ...

In 2019, Genevieve (co-author of this article) and her husband applied for the same credit card. Despite having a slightly better credit score and the same income, expenses, and debt as her husband, ...

In 2011, when we began what would eventually become Coefficient Giving, we set out to explore a big question: If someone had billions of dollars to give, what should they fund to make the greatest ...

This distinction matters because the nonprofit sector tends to recognize only one type of merger: the last-minute rescue, the ...

That is a core deficit. Students receiving an entrepreneurial education should be well versed in how power manifests, persists, who holds it, and how it evolves. They must be equally capable of ...

Many organizations claim to value people who “think differently.” Innovation, independent thinking, and challenging assumptions are celebrated in mission statements and leadership rhetoric. Yet the ...

Today the design of things that involve human interaction, such as programs, product delivery, and services, is more art than science. Here is how it typically works: We use our creativity to ...

On July 1, 2025, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) effectively ceased operations. With it went 83 percent of US assistance programs—over 5,300 projects. A study in The ...

Public schools need to change. Such a statement is common to pieces written about American education and is usually followed by an author’s preferred remedies—such as strengthening standards, ...

“Wealth defense” refers to the structures and strategies that support the accumulation of wealth and the prevention of its democratic redistribution. It is now a multibillion-dollar industry. Like ...

Time 10 - 11:30 a.m. PT / 1 - 2:30 p.m. ET Jeff Leitner is an architect of norm design, the practice of finding the unwritten rules that hold stubborn problems in place and designing change that works ...