Priority Issues

The Business, Government, and Society Initiative is evolving into the Stanford Leadership Institute, an interdisciplinary hub for research, teaching, and convenings that prepares leaders to navigate and shape the forces transforming business and society, and to make a positive impact in their organizations and the world.

We are in a new era for business and society. The emergence of multiple transformative changes calls for businesses and leaders to engage on societal issues.

The process of finding solutions — whether at the individual, organizational, or systemic level — begins with asking hard questions.

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Business & Beneficial Technology

How do we responsibly and equitably create, deploy, scale, and govern technology to improve people’s lives?

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Business & Free Markets

How do we design markets and regulations to increase prosperity for all?

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Business & Sustainability

How do we create new business models, technologies, and production systems to ensure a more sustainable future?

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Business & Economic Opportunity

How do we reinvent firms, markets, and incentives to address economic inequality, expand opportunities for wealth creation, and improve social mobility?

More information to come.

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Business & Health

How do we create new opportunities for entrepreneurship, management, and leadership to advance biomedical discovery and improve global health?

More information to come.