The Business of Web Design

June 24, 2008

Design commentator Steven Heller discusses the evolution of digital design and the challenges facing both those building Web-based businesses and those charged with designing them

Health-Care Innovation

June 17, 2008

Bob Higgins, longtime venture capitalist and entrepreneurship professor, talks about health care and the threat to U.S. leadership in research from nations that invest more in science.

Education 2.0

June 11, 2008

Clayton Christensen talks about transforming education through disruptive innovation, how schools can cater to children who learn differently, and how the U.S. can improve their system.

Games for Change

June 4, 2008

EA’s new casual games boss discusses why titles aimed at wider audiences offer designers greater opportunities to innovate. Nashak also talks about Games for Change, a festival uniting do-good nonprofits with game makers.

From Me-Too to New to the World

June 4, 2008

How does numbers-focused conglomerate Emerson Electric hope to foster breakthrough innovations? Charlie Peters, the company’s newly named chief innovation officer, explains. A big part of the effort: developing products that are “new to the world”