Milken Institute
Now in its third year, the Listening Project, debuted annually at the opening plenary of Milken Global Conference, has been tracking the most urgent challenges people are facing globally and the role of business in accelerating social progress. Pairing global research surveying over 46,000 citizens across 27 countries with a peer-to-peer survey of the Milken Institute Global Conference participants comprised of Fortune 500 executives, founders, investors, innovators, experts, and more, we identified where our leaders, thinkers, and changemakers believe the world is headed and how these leaders are responding to global challenges.
Leading with Trust: Business at the Forefront
May 3, 2022
The results of research show that more than half of people default to distrust and skepticism around new information, which creates a deep culture of mistrust globally. As the Milken Institute-Harris Poll Listening Project found, business is again the most trusted of institutions, but has been criticized for not stepping up enough to address and mitigate societal problems including climate change and economic inequality. Faced with growing global distrust and disinformation, how can businesses build and maintain confidence with consumers? If established trust is questioned, how can companies—or even industries—recover and rebuild credibility? How can the private sector continue to exemplify transparency and accountability in their core business while meeting consumer and workforce expectations of addressing the most pressing global issues of our time?
Global Capital Markets
May 3, 2022
The results of research show that more than half of people default to distrust and skepticism around new information, which creates a deep culture of mistrust globally. As the Milken Institute-Harris Poll Listening Project found, business is again the most trusted of institutions, but has been criticized for not stepping up enough to address and mitigate societal problems including climate change and economic inequality. Faced with growing global distrust and disinformation, how can businesses build and maintain confidence with consumers? If established trust is questioned, how can companies—or even industries—recover and rebuild credibility? How can the private sector continue to exemplify transparency and accountability in their core business while meeting consumer and workforce expectations of addressing the most pressing global issues of our time?
The Listening Project: Charting a New Course for Global Leaders
Ocrtober 19, 2021
The devastating arc of the coronavirus awakened society to structural inequalities, institutional and cultural biases, and ever-growing gaps in income, education, health, and opportunity. In our inaugural study last year, the pandemic exposed deficits in leadership, governance, and political, social, and economic policy. As Harris Poll data revealed, people increasingly want companies to help solve social challenges where governments are failing. Now, as an uneven recovery begins, how can business make a real difference? What new leadership skills and competencies are required? And how do they co-exist with running a company, fostering innovation, and delivering value to shareholders and stakeholders? Building on robust global research and insight from 2020, the Milken Institute's Listening Project examined the post-pandemic priority issues of global citizenry to identify the types of business leaders we need to drive growth and foster a more just world.
Global Capital Markets: At a Crossroad
Ocrtober 18, 2021
Last year saw one of the deepest and shortest recessions in history. However, although extraordinary fiscal and monetary stimulus was unavoidable to dampen the economic burden of the pandemic, it has rekindled the debate of "How much is too much?" After more than a decade of almost constant accommodative monetary policy, is there a way back to markets independent of stimulus? What is the role of capital markets in addressing societal issues? And are there solutions to growing dislocations and divides?
Meeting the Moment
Ocrtober 12, 2021
Ending as it began, 2020 presents unique, wide-ranging challenges. In the first weeks of 2020, before the pandemic, the Milken Institute and The Harris Poll surveyed nearly 30,000 people in 27 countries to identify their most urgent social and economic priorities. Months later, the Institute and Harris replicated global fieldwork, obtaining a unique, data-based view of how priorities have changed amid a pandemic. In the opening session of this Global Conference, John Gerzema, CEO, The Harris Poll, will unveil insightful results from "The Listening Project."
To set the stage for the next eight days of discovery, debate, and discussion, Milken Institute Chairman Michael Milken will explore how global leaders, institutions, and citizens are addressing urgent issues, and how we can collectively meet this moment together, and find opportunity in disruption.