The human brain is still largely a mystery to the medical world, but scientific prodigy Dr. Ed Boyden is working to change that reality. A neuroengineer and professor at the MIT Media Lab and the MIT McGovern Institute, Boyden is reinventing the way we study the brain. But this isn’t just a story about new advances in…
Digital technology has helped transform every industry, except for health care, which remains slow-moving, costly and inefficient. Legendary performance management and strategy execution expert Robert S. Kaplan, co-developer of both the balanced scorecard and activity-based costing, has been working to implement accurate costing and improved performance management approaches to health care organizations. Recently he examined what…
From a young age, we are conditioned to give answers, not to arrive at solutions by asking questions. Because we carry those habits with us into the business world, many companies remain wedded to archaic ways of thinking, stifling innovation and breeding complacency. Hal Gregersen, executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and senior lecturer in…
Despite huge strides and trillions of dollars spent in alleviating global poverty over the past few decades, many countries continue to live in its midst, and in some cases, are seeing an increase. For nations that feel like they’re missing the boat on global development, caught in a prosperity paradox or – as seen in this video…