Sometimes the smartest answer isn’t the most technical one. This collection highlights ingenious fixes that cut through ...

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Trade financing, where banks and financial institutions provide credit facilities in order to guarantee exchange of goods, is a centuries old industry that hasn’t seen much change with the growth of ...

Design thinking is a problem-solving process that encourages us to rethink the world and how people connect through products, systems or institutions. Leading brands globally use design thinking to ...

A homeless person sleeping on the lawn next to Los Angeles’ City Hall. The city’s new mayor has a program that aims to move 17,000 of the unsheltered off the streets within a year. (David ...

Many health and mental health problems defy easy solutions. But some quick fixes are so simple and effective that they can lead to amazing progress. In fact, they make me want to slap my forehead and ...

Complex organizational problems and chaos are silent killers of productivity and innovation. In today’s fractured work environment, they are more prevalent than ever. Political transitions, ...

H. Damon Matthews receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Eric Galbraith receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of ...

Modeling how cars deform in a crash, how spacecraft respond to extreme environments, or how bridges resist stress could be made thousands of times faster thanks to new artificial intelligence that ...