On December 4-5, 2023, fifty leading practitioners, academics and funders gathered on the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus to discuss their experiences in addressing some of today’s largest and ...

In recent years, the term “systems change” has taken the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors by storm. While many agree with its central tenets—addressing root causes rather than surface-level ...

The work of government systems change is complex. It requires understanding historical systems built on an unjust foundation that have been repeatedly broken and put back together again through ...

In the face of complex social and environmental challenges, our best efforts often only address a symptom, rather than root causes, even as unintended consequences create new problems. For this reason ...

Climate change and air pollution (blue box) jointly affect the food system (yellow box) via intricate interactions. In turn, through greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions, the food system makes a ...