This essay describes a model for urban development that takes into account and makes use of the externalities that exist in the built environment. Buildings and the people that inhabitat them makes neighborhoods and vice versa the value of a building is in its locations. How can better frame this relationship between an object and its environment? How can develop strategies for a integral area development that learn from the best global examples?

A conversation with the President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

To create a culture of wellness, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, urges business and government to prevent illness in the first place.

Why we may be first generation in modern history to raise offspring less healthy than ourselves.

Electronic medical records will empower patients to self-manage their health, says Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation calls for improved access to healthcare information so patients can decide if operations and therapies are actually needed.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, implores hospitals to focus more on "ultimate outcomes"--patients getting better and staying healthy.

With donations and endowments drying up, charities and philanthropies should approach the economic downtown differently, says Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Twitter karma. Ever heard of it? It dictates that I follow everyone who chooses to follow me. But why?

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Oprah's word can reverse years of bad luck for any writer or publisher.

The editor saw a huge niche for an organization to promote literature in translation in mainstream publishing.

Corporate publishing has dealt a strong blow to foreign writers trying to publish in English.

What if there was free transportation based on the elimination of BIG OIL?

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Dr. Art Kellermann, professor of emergency medicine and public health and associate dean for health policy at Emory University offers his prescription for heathcare reform, patient "dumping," the soaring cost […]

Frans de Waal is director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and a professor of psychology at Emory University. His current research includes food-sharing, […]