In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting, Dan Barasch reveals how innovative designs can revive abandoned structures while improving communities.
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In a TEDx presentation, innovation and design expert Larry Keeley reveals a new perspective on fostering a prosperous urban improvement.
The transportation industry is changing. Vehicles are getting smarter and smaller, environments are being designed on a more human scale, and companies are rushing to innovate in the face of these changes. Or as Jeffrey Schnapp, of Harvard’s “idea foundry” metaLAB, describes it: “a sense that the world of mobility is undergoing a significant transformation.”
No one would argue that there’s much work to be done with America’s infrastructure. It’s one of our President-elect’s priorities in his first 100 days. But how should it be approached?
Building a wall would be one thing, says Bent Flyvbjerg, but maintaining it quite another.
What’s behind the sluggishness of the current U.S. recovery? Our country’s “political paralysis,” says leading economist and competitiveness authority Michael E. Porter – and it’s affecting the growth of your…
The Olympics are costly, risky megaprojects, infamous for blowing budgets out of the water. Are yours? When the Rio Games open Friday they will have exceeded initial budget estimates by…
The cost of Boston’s “Big Dig” ballooned to $14.8 billion – five times the original estimate – before its completion in 2007, eight years behind schedule. Europe’s infamous “Chunnel” project…
Despite their socio-economic significance, megaprojects (projects in excess of $1 billion, ranging from massive infrastructure and large-scale IT, to new bombers for the Department of Defense and blockbuster pharmaceuticals) have…
The world is enamored with setting records: biggest bridge, tallest skyscraper, longest tunnel, fastest rail line. No matter the industry – construction, IT, energy, defense, oil and gas – more…
As the U.S. infrastructure crisis reaches a fever pitch in news coverage, public opinion and the next election cycle, Harvard’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s new book Move: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back…
If there’s one thing Americans can agree on, it’s the sorry state of our country’s infrastructure. We’re stuck, quite literally, and the inability to move affects every aspect of business…
U.S. competitiveness is indeed at a crossroads. Confidence in the country’s leadership position is waning while profound pessimism for its future stays steady. The good news is – according to…
