We are a strategy and innovation consultancy. Thorny problems are our strong suit.

WHAT WE’RE WORKING ON

Helping 21st-century learners gain 21st-century skills

Ed Prizes names finalists in three challenges that increase access to career and technical education.

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Accelerating innovation in diagnostic testing

LymeX seeks public input on diagnostic tests for Lyme disease.

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Using open innovation to source unexpected solutions

How MagQuest embraced the benefits of prize competitions to meet a mission-critical challenge.

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Accelerating artificial kidney development

KidneyX Artificial Kidney Prize offers $10 million to advance artificial kidney development toward human clinical trials.

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Empowering patients and physicians to make informed decisions

How we helped a global pharmaceutical company narrow in on the problem to solve, refine its hypothesis, and rapidly prototype potential solutions.

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Thought Leadership

Lab Report

News, analysis, and timely truth-telling.

5 ideas for making public prizes even more powerful

Our nation’s recovery is contingent upon collaboration. We can meet the moment by embracing open innovation as a mechanism for tackling challenges together.

4 membership organizations shaping healthcare’s virtual future

Trade organizations for digital health are bringing stakeholders together to push the industry forward.

Education and future-of-work policy: 2021 reading list

From equitable recovery and education financing to green jobs and work-based learning.

Select Clients

We serve as thought partners to leaders tasked with going beyond business as usual. When it’s time to execute, we help make it real.

Corporate

  • Celgene
  • Janssen
  • Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth
  • Pfizer
  • Sanofi

Nonprofit

  • Grand Victoria Foundation
  • Heritage Provider Network
  • Humanity United
  • Joyce Foundation
  • Planned Parenthood
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • TEDMED

Government

  • NASA
  • U.S. Department of Education
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  • U.S. Food & Drug Administration