Nicholas A. Christakis

The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges.

American Scientist

Jay Samit

State funds, private equity, venture capital, and institutional lending all have their role in the lifecycle of a high tech startup, but angel capital is crucial for first-time entrepreneurs. Angel investors provide more than just cash; they bring years of expertise as both founders of businesses and as seasoned investors.

American Businessman

Ron Williams

I think the U.S. is conflicted. When it comes to our own health care, we all want the best - access to the latest and most important technology. At the same time, health care is typically purchased in an institutional setting. So we purchase it in the aggregate, but we consume it as individuals.

Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Apart from the emergency aid we provide to alleviate the sufferings of victims of natural disasters, calamities and crises, we worked for transforming U.A.E.'s charity activities into an institutional activity with an aim of making them more effective and sustainable.

Emirati Statesman

Jose Angel Gurria

Regulations for international accounting and funding will have to be examined to identify policies that inadvertently discourage institutional investors from putting their resources into longer-term, illiquid assets.

Mexican Economist

Jonathan Zittrain

How an individual's reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court, which is institutionally mismatched to the evolving intricacies of the online world.

American Educator

Kehinde Wiley

I think there's something important in going against the grain and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.

American Artist

Gary Hamel

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

Ronald Coase

What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production.

British Economist

Pratibha Patil

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

Indian Politician

Used to describe features or policies typical of big organizations.

Large Scale

Carries a sense of formality and lack of personal touch, often used in formal writings.

Impersonal Tone

Frequently appears in discussions about how entities are governed or administered.

Governance Context

Often used when suggesting that an organization's structure requires improvement or reform.

Need for Change

Refers to the inner workings or mechanisms within organizations.

Internal Dynamics

Describes ingrained behaviors or problems that are difficult to change because they're established over time.

Deeper Issues

Involves widely accepted ways of doing things within an institution.

Culture & Practice

 The system isn't broken because the rules are wrong. It's that we're not applying them adequately to a changing world, and that's what we need to reconsider. So I want to explain to you a little bit about how the current system works. How does the refugee regime actually work? But not from a top-down institutional perspective,

Our refugee system is...

 said well it's funny that you asked that because it's actually called black box trading and it's also sometimes called algo trading algorithmic trading and algorithmic trading involved in part because institutional traders have the same problems that the United States airforce had which is that they're

How algorithms shape our...

 let's look at a particular a couple individual countries and look a little bit deeper what goes into the web index I find it helpful to look at these spider diagrams let's call them spider webs and there's different components that feed into the index including communications and institutional

How can we make the web...

 something unimaginable during Mao's rule. So the Party self-corrects in rather dramatic fashions. Institutionally, new rules get enacted to correct previous dysfunctions. For example, term limits. Political leaders used to retain their positions for life, and they used that to accumulate power

Eric X. Li: A tale of...

 they can have to go back in as short as just a few days after giving birth. How do we optimize mother and infant health just by messaging about breast milk to moms without providing the institutional support that facilitates that mother-infant bonding to support breastfeeding?

What we don't know about...

 And since her fever and low blood pressure had not responded to any other therapy, her doctor quickly asked permission to the institutional review board, her parents, and everybody, of course, said yes. And they tried it, and the results were nothing short of striking.

A "living drug" that...

 but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it. Books alone, books written by lone individuals, are not going to change anything. We need to group together. If you want to change the world, you have to group together, you have to be collaborative.

Atheism 2.0 PIPE Alain de...

 chaotic, ambiguous, unpredictable. And people are okay with it. And then globalization is taking place. The demands of modern institutional thinking is coming in. Which is rooted in one-life culture. And a clash is going to take place,

East vs west -- the...

 members respond with brutal and violent acts including beatings riots or even homicide if we put a hit on somebody we basically want them life flighted they said a statement for the whole institutional investment scripts so in a

Prison Nation PIPE National...

 But the deeper that I delved into the health impact of racism, the more insidious the effects became. There is institutional discrimination, which refers to discrimination