--- description: 1. Learning from our mistakes: Global response to the current Ebola crisis should improve our handling of the next outbreak. By Lena H. Sun, Brady... title: These Are Today's Best Ideas image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 7 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 7, 2014 4:40 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 7, 2014 4:40 PM CUT **1\.** [**Learning from our mistakes: Global response to the current Ebola crisis should improve our handling of the next outbreak.**](http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/10/04/how-ebola-sped-out-of-control/ "undefined") By Lena H. Sun, Brady Dennis, Lenny Bernstein, Joel Achenbach in the Washington Post **2\.** [**A blueprint for reopening the tech industry to women: be deliberate, build a new pipeline that is openly focused on women, and attack the archetype of tech success.**](https://medium.com/matter/this-is-the-last-thing-youll-ever-need-to-read-about-sexism-in-tech-56b9a3a77af0 "undefined") By Ann Friedman in Matter **3\.** [**We need to change what’s taught in business schools and the narrative about business success that dominates boardrooms.**](http://www.fordfoundation.org/ford-forum/judith-samuelson-on-next-gen-business-thinking.html "undefined") By Judy Samuelson in the Ford Forum **4\.** [**A health system that learns from its experience through data analysis can change medicine.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/magazine/can-big-data-tell-us-what-clinical-trials-dont.html "undefined") By Veronique Greenwood in the New York Times Magazine **5\.** [**A long overdue move to align our international development with climate reality could trigger sweeping policy changes around the world.**](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-climate-directive-20141006,0,4881962.story "undefined") By Charles Cadwell and Mark Goldberg in the Baltimore Sun  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3478073/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-7/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3478073/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-7/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 7","datePublished":"2014-10-07T16:40:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:32.189Z","description":"1. Learning from our mistakes: Global response to the current Ebola crisis should improve our handling of the next outbreak. By Lena H. Sun, Brady...","url":"https://time.com/3478073/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-7/","keywords":["Innovation","women","climate change","climate","Education","Technology","hospitals","STEM","Tech","big data","health","Industry","Foreign Aid","ebola"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3478073/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-7/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 7"}}]}] ```