Jonathan J. Halperin
Jonathan J. Halperin
Designing Our Future. Together.

Research, Knowledge, Action

A top advisor to a head of state we once worked with during a rapidly changing political situation, consistently refused to undertake survey research in the face of mounting evidence that risks were escalating and the public mood was shifting dramatically. Pressed to explain his obstinance, he angrily insisted, “don’t you understand that once I know something, then I have to do something.”

Monday, January 6, 2025

I admire... you for standing firm for freedom of the press, despite being perched on the slippery slope of American descent into fascism and autocracy.

Monday, January 11, 2021
Fear, collusion, and incompetence are a deadly combination. That we couldn't defend the Capitol from an insurrectionist mob was a failure not of intelligence but a failure to be intelligent.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
As we recover from our annual Halloween sugar binge, worth $2.4 billion to the candy industry, rumblings of change can be heard from every corner of the food system.
Friday, December 27, 2013
I am comforted by the awareness that changes we dismiss as inconceivable are often viewed by historians as having been inevitable. A Happy New Year might thus include news of the following momentous changes.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
In a filled tent at the Aspen Ideas Festival today, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, described smart phones as devices that “by their nature” collect information.
Friday, June 29, 2012
Wow. A fabulous new documentary, Finding North, is a masterpiece of video storytelling.
Tuesday, December 14, 1993
Op-Ed, The Los Angeles Times, December 14, 1993

Jerusalem

Jonathan Halperin asks important questions, forces you to think strategically with an outcome orientation, and isn’t afraid to totally re-imagine the way of doing something to achieve desired objectives. Working with Jonathan to plan our annual conference of thought-leaders in food and other impact programs of the James Beard Foundation for several years has been an enlightening and rewarding experience. We feel smarter and more effective for having worked with him.

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