Cityblock Health founder Toyin Ajayi is working to fundamentally change the health care system. Here's how she tackles large-scale problems.

Whether mild or severe, problems occur in businesses all the time. From declining sales to product quality issues to employee challenges, every business faces a unique set of obstacles. It’s important ...

Rob De La Espriella is the creator of BlueDragon, a problem-solving system used by the US national laboratories and nuclear facilities. United States businesses are silently hemorrhaging trillions of ...

A conversation with author Anne Morriss on two keys to organizational success. When it comes to solving complicated problems, the default for many organizational leaders is to take their time to work ...

Daedalus, Vol. 154, No. 3, How Will We Think about the Past in the Future? (Summer 2025), pp. 59-71 (13 pages) Imagine a bright future for philanthropic and government problem-solving. There is a ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...