In this Design Nation interview with Sarah Alpern, VP of Design at LinkedIn, Sarah shares how her own personal design values and work at LinkedIn allows for her to embrace trust, accessibility, and equity in design. She also suggests what designers should ask themselves as they start to discover their own creative approaches and design philosophies, and explains how LinkedIn uses user research to design a product that is for everyone, by everyone.
Read MoreSummer Journalism Fellow Joe Strong speaks to Elisa Jagerson, CEO Emeritus of FutureBrand Speck, the design consultancy credited with driving major product and service innovations within Google, Apple, and more. Jagerson chats about her pioneering role in redefining intelligent design to grow Speck from a boutique design and engineering firm into an innovation leader. She also shares her passion for service, legal reform, and gender/racial justice.
Read MoreBrigitte Anderson, Founder and Principal of Orange Vista LLC, describes her first ventures in promoting financial inclusion and banking in emerging markets in Africa through the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. She also explains what led her to pivot Orange Vista as a market consultancy group towards the health and education sectors, Chicago’s innovation scene, and the value of mentorship throughout her inspiring entrepreneurial journey.
Read MoreFor our spring 2020 magazine, Michael Kratsios, current Chief Technology Officer of the United States, shares his insights about creating a regulatory environment where innovators are highly incentivized to create technology in the U.S. He also describes how he thinks AI will influence future relevant technology policy and legislation, the U.S. labor workforce, and STEM education moving forward.
Read MoreVico Sharabani, Founder and Executive Creative Director of The-Artery, is one of the content industry’s leading technologists whose diverse body of work spans feature films, episodic television, and branded content. He speaks about the interplay between human touch and technological advances in the creative space. He also shares how The-Artery takes the vision of its clients to the next level with an example of a visual production his team did for Mercedes Benz.
Read MoreJosh Nichols, Founder of CrossBraining, Inc., an experiential learning and video assessment platform, explains how CrossBraining encourages hands-on learning by enabling students to capture, narrate and reflect on their learning targets through video storytelling. He also shares what opportunities exist for the education system to be more innovative, especially during COVID-19 and what aspiring student entrepreneurs need to know about the product design process.
Read MoreSummer Journalism Fellow Charlotte Ehlers speaks with Patricia Letayf, co-founder and Director of Operations at Five One Labs, a startup incubator in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq that has incubated five cohorts of startups since its inception in 2017. Letayf describes how Five One Labs combines her interests in Middle Eastern politics, business, and economic development and how it also uses entrepreneurship to enable diverse groups of young people in Kurdistan to rebuild their community.
Read MoreDan Abramowicz is Crown’s Chief Technology Officer with global responsibility for innovation and technology development across Crown’s business platforms. Before joining Crown, Dr. Abramowicz was a Technical Director in GE’s Global Research Center, responsible for innovation and technology.
Read MoreDan Doctoroff speaks to his experience serving New York City and the new challenges he tackles at Sidewalk Labs, focusing on growth, investment, and security for smart cities.
Read MoreAlex Gounares is the founder and CEO of Polyverse Corporation, a cyber security company focused on protecting software from cyberattacks using moving target defense technologies. He spoke to Business Today about the fundamental economics of cybersecurity.
Read MoreKaren Raskopf, Chief Communications & Sustainability Officer at Dunkin’, talks about being proactive on the job, building an authentic brand, and promoting sustainability in Dunkin’ stores and coffee.
Read MoreIt is usually quite easy to look around and recognize a broken leg, small cut, or common cold. However, when it comes to the seemingly invisible ailments that arise in our minds, there still remains a large deficit in acknowledging, treating, and prioritizing mental health.
Read MoreDespite the notoriety and recognizability of the LEGO brand, in the early 2000s the company was in a state of near-bankruptcy. How did it manage to turn around its business and emerge as one of the world’s leading toy companies?
Read MoreThe revolutionary nature of today’s communication technologies stems directly from their joint utility. Accumulating compatible technologies is invaluable.
Read More“Quick and easy delivery” is the tagline of the so called On-Demand economy. However, with the speed with which these start-ups deliver their service, failure might inevitably be the outcome.
Read MoreOn October 15th, [Sears] filed for bankruptcy--what happened? For one, the store stopped doing what it did best: innovating.
Read MoreInnovation thrives when there exist low barriers to entry and a large amount of competition, but regulation like GDPR has already proven to act against forthcoming disruptors.
Even across disparate retail segments, companies like Warby Parker, Glossier, Casper, and Harry’s define a unique market group that share a host of defining features largely responsible for their success.
Read MoreWhat has made these companies unique is that they also provide information and market directly to the consumer.
Read MoreOver the last decade, hackathons have become increasingly popular as a tool to generate ideas, practice teamwork, and even create friendly, competitive environments, but they should not be limited to the average software development company or university.
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