Over the last half-century, there has been a recorded gap in educational achievement between students from families at the top and bottom of the income scale. With Amy Klement, Partner at Omidyar Network, moderator of the edtech plenary session at the Innovation for Shared Prosperity Conference, Peter Bergman, an assistant…

What would it look like if financial technologies inclusively benefited all Americans? At Stanford Graduate School of Business’s 2019 Innovation for Shared Prosperity Conference fintech plenary session, financial industry focused venture capitalist Arjan Schutte and economist David Laibson discussed how fintech products and services could benefit more Americans. Instead of…

Too often, college students enroll in a myriad of classes but don’t develop the practical skills that the job market demands; or students working part time in service jobs want better-paying, higher-skill positions but don’t know what those jobs are, how to train for them, or how to present their…

XPRIZE is a nonprofit that aims to inspire people everywhere to create a more hopeful future. The Adult Literacy XPRIZE, which was launched in June 2015, aims to address economic inequality by improving access to basic education and literacy instruction for low-income and low-skilled adults. What is XPRIZE? XPRIZE’s mission…

Just a few years after graduating from UC Berkeley in 2013, Eric Liu carved out a special niche in the use of data science as a tool for social change, reforming the government contracting process and carrying out projects that help agencies do a better job of serving people in…

What do you think about when you hear the phrase “adaptive learning”? The answer may vary based on which platform you currently have in mind. The edtech industry is bursting with platforms that attempt to tailor lessons and materials to individual students. There’s Summit Learning, supported by the Chan Zuckerberg…

Stanford MBA student Marta Milkowska has followed an unusual path that established her credentials as one of her generation’s leading innovators in economic development. …

Technology-driven economic disruption has been a feature of modern economies since the early days of the Industrial Revolution. Technological advances in the economy present both challenges for firms and workers tied to outmoded production methods and great opportunities for those able to adapt. There is, however, reason to believe that…

Michael Kremer is a 2019 co-recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, awarded for his “experiential approach to alleviating global poverty.” Kremer was lead economist in an effort by the global health community to overcome the private sector’s underinvestment in vaccines for diseases…