Emerging Issues
The challenges communities will grapple with in the future don’t typically overlap with the challenges they face right now. The world needs someone who’s looking around the corner to recognize, examine, and evaluate tomorrow’s solutions—today.
Geopolitical Shift: Corporate America's Growing Focus on Global Risk
Report
U.S. businesses operate in a world of evolving international policies and heightened geopolitical tension. Our analysis of corporate financial reports and earnings calls reveals accelerated concern.
High Stakes: A Framework for Geopolitical Risk Management
Report
This report provides a data-based assessment of how U.S. companies perceive geopolitical risk and articulates a recommended decision-making process and framework to manage such risk.
Programs
Through our incubator pilots, we source, vet, and nurture cutting-edge solutions for the problems of tomorrow.
Working in concert with other Foundation programs and business partners, we develop theories of change and test new approaches to challenges across a spectrum of disciplines, including geopolitical risk, democracy and capitalism, and business-led solutions to wicked problems.
Latest Content
- Failure, when viewed through the right lens, becomes a strategic asset. On this International Day for Failure, we reflect on how businesses have learned from setbacks, turning them into opportunities for growth and transformation.Twenty judges and magistrates from 13 countries arrive in the nation’s capital for intensive program focused on upholding the rule of lawIn early October, this initiative will bring together 20 judges and magistrates from 13 countries across 5 regions of the world to Washington, D.C., and Virginia for a rigorous two-week program focused on upholding the rule of law.Just like rules in a sport or board game, rule of law creates impartiality, predictability, and accountability. Together with the Presidential Precinct, we launched the Judicial Fellowship Program, a concerted effort to fight corruption and strengthen rule of law globally.Peer feedback is important, especially for our AI-powered colleagues. We had AI chatbots evaluate each other's responses to determine the capabilities and creative limits of the four most popular AI chatbots. By having the tools assess each other, we uncovered strengths, limits, and insights into their 'personalities,' biases, and self-awareness.Meet Moon Nguyen and Melissa Mendizabal, the U.S. Chamber Foundation’s first Innovation Scholars.In recognition of World Quantum Day, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, in partnership with the Boston Consulting Group, shares a high-level summary of significant findings from a war game conducted with U.S. public and private sector leaders.The American Communities Project, based at Michigan State University, is a three-year effort to study the nation's fraying political, cultural, and socioeconomic fabric.Innovation is at the core of the U.S. Chamber Foundation’s mission. In honor of Innovation Day on February 16th, Kelsey Margey, manager of strategy and innovation, shares a summary of the corporate trends shaping the landscape in 2024.
