In today’s global environment, we can only generate real change and innovation through collaborations across the boundaries of disciplines, national borders, and institutional and personal identities.
Northwestern Buffett brings together the brightest minds to address critical global challenges that cannot be solved from a singular disciplinary or geographical perspective. Learn about our collaborative process, which helps groups produce research ideas, projects, and publications that generate substantive solutions.

PUBLICATIONS
Our e-publications amplify scholarship and thought leadership focused on the most pressing global challenges of our time, and our Buffett Briefs illustrate how our Global Working Groups, Buffett Faculty Fellows and other affiliated researchers are tackling complex global issues through collaborative research across disciplines and geographies. LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS
SUPPORT FOR VISITING SCHOLARS
Northwestern Buffett supports faculty members who wish to host visiting scholars.LEARN MORE ABOUT SUPPORTING VISITING SCHOLARS
GLOBAL SOCIAL INNOVATION HUBS
Northwestern Buffett is creating a network of Global Social Innovation Hubs that will identify and address major global challenges impacting communities around the world. These hubs, established in partnership with universities worldwide,will serve as a model for how solutions can be generated when researchers and thought leaders from civil society, government and industry join forces.LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR HUBS