Sentences with phrase «many societal problems»

Which brings me to the release today of Fortune's annual celebrated «Change the World» list, where we highlight companies that are tackling key societal problems with the same ambition — and, importantly, sustaining profit motive — that they're pursuing their core business operations.

Whether it's a customer problem, a constituent problem, or a societal problem, they live to come up with innovative solutions to big, tough problems.

We can invest in our communities and in companies we feel try to solve societal problems.

Douglas A. Boneparth, a certified financial planner who advises millennials and president of Bone Fide Wealth, told INSIDER that this social media «FOMO» is a societal problem, not just a generational one.

All we are doing is shining a spotlight on the fact that each has made measurable progress addressing a societal problem with an innovative business program.

The study was sponsored by the global insurer and health services company Cigna, which is concerned about loneliness as a societal problem but also because it's not just making us sad: It can literally make us sick.

The more its purpose is tied to solving a societal problem, the more engaged employees and consumers will feel.

Companies currently in the Transformational Technology Alert model portfolio have work underway seeking to solve giant, pressing societal problems such as:

Economist Shlomo Benartzi is a behavioral economist interested in combining the insights of psychology and economics to solve big societal problems.

Each company can identify the particular set of societal problems that it is best equipped to help resolve and from which it can gain the greatest competitive benefit.

Its «list of reasons Page 3 has to go» gives us a picture of how the media represents women and how this links to a wider societal problem in which women are primarily regarded as decoration; their value dependent on how conventionally attractive they are considered to be.

I would say if someone saw me as intolerant for pointing out a practice that does come complete with societal problems attached to it — then so be it.

I try to show that CA is a societal problem that has impregnated the priesthood rather than the other way around as the bigots would like to have us believe.

It points to societal problems but only one who lacks logic would equate that to saying these priests are not accountable for their own actions.

It's easy to postulate that homeschooling parents are unusually committed, but these results still challenge the prevailing orthodoxy that societal problems inevitably hold education hostage.

his is the true source of the societal problems we're having right now.

No wonder Pope Paul VI's predictions of marital breakdown and societal problems arising from contraception have sadly been fulfilled.

It goes far deeper than that, and is a fundamental societal problem that extends far past athletes

Isn't infidelity a societal problem?

You present a very measured response to societal problems that are becoming more serious as time wears on and our girls grow up.

She further stated that «to place on top of normal sleep deprivation this societal notion that there is something wrong with you, wrong with your baby, or at worst — which I have been accused of — that you are needy... leads to a really big societal problem.»

New York Times Magazine editor Tough profiles an ambitious effort to simultaneously address the seemingly eternal societal problems of poverty, class stratification, educational underachievement and racial discrimination.

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It's clearly a wider societal problem.)

I hardly think this is a problem to do with extended breastfeeding, but rather a symptom of a deep societal problem — the sexualization of breasts.

Since Universities are established to proffer solutions to societal problems, to what extent has your university championed this course?

Generally opponents of Big Government believe that the Government is not the solver of all societal problems and that it might fall to a lower level of government authority OR a private cooperation that can make innovative changes faster than the government can.

Speaking at the Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana confab 2017, Chief Executive Officer of the Private Enterprise Federation, Ghana, Nana Osei Bonsu, held that businesses and individuals need to fill the gaps and solve certain societal problems government can not fix.

«Preaching should focus on proffering solutions to societal problems and not engaging in controversial issues that are capable of causing disunity in the society,» Bello said

He advised that their preaching should focus on proffering solutions to societal problems and restoring peace in the nation.

«What he was trying to say is it's not just state government, it's a societal problem that requires a systematic solution, which is quite accurate,» Bakst said.

Domestic violence is a societal problem, Bill Cox Sr. told the Daily News, a western New York newspaper.

He rejects the movement's assumption that obesity is a societal problem, dismissing the belief that the environment and culture are to blame for people becoming overweight.

While this is reflective of a set of wider societal problems, Democratic Audit's Sean Kippin argues that committee chairs and staff must make more effort to increase female visibility at select committees.

The Cosby case is symptomatic of a wider societal problem around our attitudes to allegations of rape, sexual assault, and other forms of violence against women and girls.

What struck me when looking back more than 10 years ago, and what I was reading now about mass shootings, was the familiar theme that firearm - related violence is a societal problem and that law enforcement can not solve it on its own.

Further work is also being accomplished in assembling the Initiatives for a Stronger Community, the administration's Health & Human Services Plan that works with community partners in addressing poverty and other societal problems.

That approach also advances fundamental knowledge like basic science, but is designed to address societal problems.

In February 2012, the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) and DISCOVER magazine presented «Advanced Materials: Stories of Innovation,» a symposium exploring the role of materials in the evolution of technology and how innovations can provide solutions to societal problems.

The personal reward of feeling like you are really contributing to the answer of a tremendous societal problem is worth the aggravation.»

In February 2012, the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) and DISCOVER magazine presented «Advanced Materials: Stories of Innovation,» a symposium exploring the role of materials in the evolution of technology and how materials innovations can continue to provide solutions to vexing societal problems.

Hydrogen could therefore help ease pressing environmental and societal problems, including air pollution and its health hazards, global climate change and dependence on foreign oil imports.

Such factors also work against developing solutions to societal problems, such as climate change, jobless innovation and health care delivery, they said.

Oil fields have improved services to North Slope residents, but that's tempered by increasing societal problems such as a loss of traditional culture.

He also promoted an approach, dubbed One NSF, that has tried to prod NSF's seven directorates and various program offices to cooperate in jointly funding proposals that span disciplines and tackle important societal problems.

Climate was probably just one of many factors that brought it down, but prolonged drought probably exacerbated the political and societal problems.

«I would be cautious to trust any technology that [claims] it will solve our social, cultural or societal problem completely by itself,» he says.

In keeping with its broad and inclusive mandate, the AAAS should call attention to societal problems that may limit individuals» participation in a wide range of scientific and technical opportunities.

The Obama administration tried to tackle a range of societal problems with multiagency initiatives that included major research components.