This September marked a momentous occasion for the United Nations. During the 70th General Assembly, 193 countries endorsed the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which...
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Augustina Mejiasamata, a 34-year- old Quechua woman who lives in an Andes mountain village two hours outside of Cusco, Peru, had already waited in line for almost an hour...
This November, PYXERA Global convenes the Global Engagement Forum in Washington DC, bringing together leaders and innovators to discuss how cross-sector collaboration and...
Today’s leaders must be prepared to confront a world that is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. These dynamics are so consistently true that many management exp...
Recent studies have shown that many companies are giving more generously to social causes than ever before. Some, like Unilever, Coca-Cola, GSK, and others, have begun to...
“This isn’t 15,000 incidents of eating bushmeat,” Paul Farmer said. “It’s weak public health systems.” Prior to his remark, I thought that contracting E...
“People are the only real thing that will change the world.” These words, articulated by Grady Lee, are the philosophy behind IMPACT 2030, a global private sector-led co...
This year, we published a number of stories that both thoughtfully provoked dialogue at a critical time, and helped contribute to greater understanding of the challenges ...
“Shut out of modernity, they have been left on their own.” Earlier this month, Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health (PIH) addressed a group of close to ...
This fall, I visited New England just at the peak of the fall foliage season. Truly a sight to behold, this fall the colors were even brighter than usual. A local reveale...