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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Research

The new genius is a collaborative genius.

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.

global working groups

Northwestern Buffett Global Working Groups undertake collaborative, interdisciplinary research on complex global challenges and pursue solutions to those challenges in coordination with experts and citizens worldwide. 
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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.
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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.
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