Watch Now: Videos from our Innovation Story Studio
Bill Shannon at BIF-5
DaVita Chief Wisdom Officer delivers captivating story that gives new meaning to the famed Three Muskateers motto 'all for one and one for all.'
Melissa Withers at BIF-5
Adding fresh thinking to the higher education debate, BIF's Executive Director shares the latest research from BIF's Student Experience Lab.
Saul Kaplan at BIF-5
Inspiring opening remarks from the founder and chief catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory.
Practically Radical: Allan Tear at BIF-5
The Betaspring co-founder talks about the 12-week, mentorship-driven bootcamp he started last summer to help entrepreneurs build and launch their companies.
Bill Buxton at BIF-5
Leading designer and Microsoft principal researcher questions why the design of most technology doesn't incorporate important social, cultural and historical perspectives.
Practically Radical: Gina Melone at BIF-5
The Hasbro futurist shares the origin story of Project Zambi, a cute little elephant born from a crowdsourcing effort that blends passion with social responsibility.
Practically Radical: Peter Snyder at BIF-5
There's an exciting paradigm shift taking place in science today that moves the notion of 'doing' to 'knowing' explains the Lifespan VP of research.
Greg Matthews at BIF-5
With cool project work to back him up, Humana's Director of Innovation demonstrates the power of social media as a tool for innovation.
Neri Oxman at BIF-5
By letting materials tell their own stories, the form-finding (not form-making) artist, architect and material ecologist shares a few brilliant examples of her work.
Richard Saul Wurman at BIF-5
The legendary information architect offers a handful of delightfully disconnected personal stories about weight-loss, dressing in white and his latest book 33.
Alice Wilder at BIF-5
Educational psychologist and Blue's Clues creator discusses her creative approach to getting kids excited about learning. (Hint: Ask a lot of questions.)
Michael Samuelson at BIF-5
Returning storyteller and Health and Wellness Institute president shares an intensely personal story about breast cancer and the need to be your own advocate.
Per-Kristian (Kris) Halvorsen at BIF-5
Intuit's chief innovation officer sits down with BIF-5 co-host Bruce Nussbaum to talk about what it takes to drive innovation capability across a company.
John Maeda at BIF-5
In this onstage interview with co-host Bruce Nussbaum, the RISD president digs into his viewpoint that innovation has lost its appreciation of "thinking for thinking’s sake."
Helen Walters at BIF-5
BusinessWeek's editor of innovation and design sits down with Saul Kaplan to talk about the proliferation of social media and what it means for publishing.
Carne Ross at BIF-5
Hear the incredible story of how and why this former British senior diplomat and founder of the Independent Diplomat is reinventing diplomacy for the 21st century.
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Len Schlesinger
March 9th 2010
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Student Experience Lab: Phase 1 Overview
While every student experience is in many ways unique, the first phase of the BIF Student Experience Lab identified nine experiential themes that span demographics, geography and school and student-type.