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The Four Phases of Design Thinking

August 10, 2010
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BusinessWeek (July 30, 2010) – What can people in business learn from studying the ways successful designers solve problems and innovate? On the most basic level, they can learn to question, care, connect, and commit, four of the most important things successful designers do to achieve significant breakthroughs. Go to Source
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Bringing New Ideas to Fruition

August 10, 2010
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Bringing New Ideas to Fruition

It’s not always easy to bridge the gap between academic research and the business world. Two recent articles offer perspectives on different aspects of the process: TURNING IDEAS INTO START-UPS. A recent New York Times article highlights university “idea incubators” – such as MIT’s Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation — that help professors bring their innovations to market.  Notes The New York Times: “M.I.T. is...
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Sewage-cleaning device produces electricity, too

August 5, 2010
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Small units that purify household sewage could provide a source of electricity for urban and remote communities in the developing world, according to researchers. The units would be populated with Shewanella oneidensis, one of several types of bacteria that can break down organic matter in sewage, producing electrons and protons. If the sewage...
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India turns complex US tech into cheap African vaccine

June 10, 2010
By FSG

An unusual vaccine development collaboration, which should lead to the launch of a cheap meningitis vaccine for Sub-Saharan Africa later this year, is emerging as a feasible way forward in the quest to make newer vaccines affordable in developing countries. The Serum Institute of India’s vaccine for meningitis — a bacterial infection of...
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Leading a developing-market bank: An interview with the CEO of Nigeria's Oceanic Bank

May 25, 2010
By FSG
Leading a developing-market bank: An interview with the CEO of Nigeria's Oceanic Bank

Cecilia Ibru, CEO of Nigeria’s Oceanic Bank International, is no stranger to crisis: she has dealt with the challenges arising from the present global recession in the context of Nigeria’s efforts at tackling issues—poverty, civil unrest, and corruption—that have kept roughly 70 percent of the country’s population below the poverty line. In this...
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Cultural challenges and the woman CEO: An interview with Nigeria's Cecilia Ibru

May 25, 2010
By FSG
Cultural challenges and the woman CEO: An interview with Nigeria's Cecilia Ibru

Cecilia Ibru, CEO of Nigeria’s Oceanic Bank International, is no stranger to crisis: she has dealt with the challenges arising from the present global recession in the context of Nigeria’s efforts at tackling issues—poverty, civil unrest, and corruption—that have kept roughly 70 percent of the country’s population below the poverty line. In this...
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Improving performance at state-owned enterprises

May 25, 2010
By FSG
Improving performance at state-owned enterprises

State-owned enterprises have always struggled to match the private sector’s performance standards. That problem has become more acute now that many governments have been forced to deal with the current economic crisis by acquiring assets from private companies. Still, some state-owned companies in emerging markets have borrowed lessons from the private sector to...
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Cheaper drugs, vaccines forecast as collaborations grow between developing countries’ biotech firms

May 11, 2010
By FSG

‘South-South’ biotech collaborations boost health, economies: Study The availability of more affordable drugs, vaccines and diagnostics that would help countless people worldwide is the foremost benefit expected from a growing number of collaborations between biotech firms in developing countries, according to a study to be published Mon. May 10 in the UK journal Nature...
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£3M awarded for climate model to predict disease outbreak

April 22, 2010
By FSG

Researchers across 13 European and African research institutes will work together to integrate data from climate modelling and disease forecasting systems to predict the likelihood of an epidemic up to six months in advance. The research, funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework programme, will focus on climate and disease in Senegal, Ghana...
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Discovery in legumes could reduce fertilizer use, aid environment: Stanford researchers

March 1, 2010
By FSG

Nitrogen is vital for all plant life, but increasingly the planet is paying a heavy price for the escalating use of nitrogen fertilizer. Excess nitrogen from fertilizer runoff into rivers and lakes causes algal blooms that create oxygen-depleted dead zones, such as the 6,000 to 7,000 square mile zone in the Gulf of...
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