In January, the FBI announced that it is finally updating its ancient definition of rape to conform to a more thorough understanding of sexual assault. While many states have already adapted their ...

When you work in a consulting role, there’s an urge to dive into solutions the moment you’re presented with a problem. After all, that’s what you’re there for, right? Clients come to you with ...

Five steps to ensure that you don’t jump to solutions by Julia Binder and Michael D. Watkins When business leaders confront complex problems, there’s a powerful impulse to dive right into “solving” ...

A recent HBR article by Oguz Acar from King’s College London rejects the idea that Prompt Engineering is the hottest job of the future, declaring instead that problem formulation is a higher-order, ...

Once you know the problem and who is affected, the next step is defining your value proposition. “If your solution works, ...

In my last column two weeks ago, I laid out a proposal to promote integrated schools that I believe has never been tried. We have tried coercion, in the form of busing, a spectacular failure. We have ...

Research shows that companies devote too little effort to examining problems before trying to solve them. By jumping immediately into problem-solving, teams limit their ability to design innovative ...