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Innovative Start-Ups Founded by Women

Destination Innovation

We need more women entrepreneurs. The founder and CEO is Nadine Hachach-Haram, an NHS surgeon who is also an entrepreneur and TED speaker. The system is designed for children aged 6 to 18 and is based on gamification ideas. It was founded by Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss in 2009. Nadine Hachach-Haram.

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Three reasons to change the global poverty fighting paradigm

Christensen Institute

It means those who live on less than roughly two dollars a day. Yet there are billions of people in our world who live on more than two dollars a day, who are still suffering immensely. Unfortunately, today, we have a system that manages poverty. Then we started funding schools in different communities.

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Why World Water Day should focus on more than just water

Christensen Institute

Progress however, towards the goal of making water available to the more than two billion people who lack access, has been painfully slow despite the fact that studies show a return of $5 to $46 for every dollar spent on clean water intervention. So, I rallied friends together, raised $10,000 and we built a well for the community.

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5 Reasons to Bring Your Team Together for a Remote Design Thinking Project Now

InnovationTraining.org

At Sprintbase , we help businesses bring remote teams together to tackle the challenges they’re facing remotely using design thinking to find truly innovative solutions. Here we share five reasons why now’s the time to bring your team together for a remote design thinking project.

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Folic acid: The risk of modular thinking in an interdependent situation

Christensen Institute

By design, RCTs isolate the intervention that is under consideration and hold the other variables constant. In reality, and especially when it comes to our health, we cannot always isolate variables in a modular way. Our bodies are interdependent systems , and as a result, what we do for one body system affects the others too.

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IDEA 2009: An Interview with Leisa Reichelt

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. At the completely other end of the scale, I also draw a huge amount of inspiration from my Twitter network and the tiny little nuggets of ideas, ourselves, and what we make of our world.

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Emotional Design with A.C.T. - Part 1

Boxes and Arrows

As UX professionals, we strive to design engaging experiences. These experiences help to forge relationships between the products we create and the people who use them. Then, we’ll dive deeper to explore how design elicits and communicates emotion and personality to users.

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