Key insights and research highlights 2024
Don’t miss our final podcast episode of the year, where we spotlight the standout Thinking Ahead Institute research from 2024. While we can’t cover it all, we’ll explore key highlights, from the climate transition and systems thinking to investment beliefs, asset owner best practices, and our latest industry studies.
Join us as we sit down with each member of the research team to dive into their insights and get to know them better. Tune in to reflect on what has been another bumper year for the Thinking Ahead Institute!
In the Institute, one of the reasons why we’re called Thinking Ahead, is we do exactly that, we think beyond the usual time horizons. We think, hold on, this may seem like the most important issue, but actually what’s the next one and the next one and the next one? And that horizon scanning, that thinking in the long term view, can really help investors be more robust when they’re thinking about their investment strategies.
Marisa Hall, Head of the Thinking Ahead Institute
When dealing with sustainability and climate change, we encounter not only an enormous, unprecedented set of decision-making tasks, but also concrete analytical challenges. The reality is that we are immersed in a global system demanding decisions under profound uncertainty, which requires us to balance objective analysis with a deep human responsibility toward the planet. We are coming from a continued exploration of that uncertainty and how difficult it is not to fall under the radar of systemic risk.
Andrea Caloisi, Researcher, Thinking Ahead Institute
Related pages
Research agenda 2024
Proposed research agenda 2025
Working group: Climate transition
Working group: Investment beliefs
Working group: CIO-ship
Research paper: Global Asset Owner Peer Study on best practices
Global industry studies
Systems curriculum
Systems thinking content hub
Book: Post Growth—Life After Capitalism by Tim Jackson
Book: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Book: On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century by Tony Blair
Film: The Day After Tomorrow
Artwork: The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Song: Imagine by John Lennon
Cartoon: Ride the waves of annihilation
