Results for: Author: jenniferjackson
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Workplace Innovation • Issue 010
Turning the Inside Out
Remember back in college when you begged your professor to hold class in the quad under a tree? It turns out, you were onto something.
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Business • Issue 010
Sell by Design
When Sachin Rai boarded a Greyhound bus in San Francisco, he had little idea that his trip to Los Angeles would land him a multimillion-dollar sales contract.
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Entrepreneurship • Issue 009
Create Local, Launch Global
Long before industrialization and a global economy, nearly every product someone used would have been made by a local craftsman from locally-sourced materials. Can we learn from that model and make it work again today?
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Vibrant Cities • Issue 008
Awakening Cities
Once known simply as “The Wall,” the Green Monster is Fenway Park’s legendary left field wall: one so tall, it’s wildly difficult to hit a ball over. Imagine you’re near Fenway Park, Lansdowne Street on a summer night. As you approach the gigantic steel structure that supports the Green Monster, you hear a rhythm emanating from its bays. Not from a concert within the stadium, but from the actual wall. Then, you see that wall light up, and realize there are people in those bays, drumming on the beams like they’re instruments.
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Healthcare • Issue 006
Moving Faster
The process for creating prosthetic devices is painfully slow and based on out-dated technology. Digital tools and 3D printing can change everything; they certainly did for Paralympic cyclist, Denise Schindler.