Commentary
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Rethinking Pharmaceutical Business Models
ZURICH – The world’s health needs are changing dramatically. Demographic trends, shifting patterns of disease, and strained public funding are…
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The Zero-Emissions Imperative
DAVOS – Our planet is warming dangerously. And, as the 2013 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes…
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The Circular Revolution
DAVOS – In the sixteenth century, the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus made a profound discovery: the sun, not the earth, was…
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Achieving Escape Velocity
NEWPORT BEACH – It is not often that one can confidently claim that a single remedy could make billions of…
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The Drug Industry’s Poison Pills
BOSTON – One does not need to spend a lifetime in the global healthcare sector to appreciate that substandard or…
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Scaling Up Water Sustainability
NEW YORK – Since 2000, when the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted, the global community has rightly…
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The Specialization Myth
CAMBRIDGE – Some ideas are intuitive. Others sound so obvious after they are expressed that it is hard to deny…
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Does Africa Require New Electoral System?
An electoral system is [merely] an administrative logistical process designed to ensure that an expressive choice by an entity is…
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Foreign-Aid Follies
MUMBAI – The huge gap between the world’s richest and poorest countries remains one of the great moral dilemmas for…
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Public Policy’s Senior Moment
EDINBURGH – A century ago, children outnumbered the elderly by as much as ten to one in most European countries.…
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