Education
Randy Antik at BIF-2
What do you do when you’re told your child will never graduate from high school? Randy Antik talks about finding the one doctor who could help and helping that doctor scale his approach to reach millions of kids a year.
Robert Ballard at BIF-2
As a child Bob Ballard was spellbound by “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea”. Fiber optics and telepresence helped the oceanographer discover the Titanic and reach his dream of walking on the bottom of the ocean.
Clay Christensen at BIF-3
Clayton Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research and teaching interests center on managing innovation and creating new growth markets.
Joseph Coughlin at BIF-3
Coughlin is founder and Director of MIT's AgeLab - the first multi-disciplinary research program sponsored by government and business to understand the behavior of the 45+ population as decision-makers, consumers, patients, caregivers, advisers and technology users.
Marc Ecko at BIF-4
Global brand-maker shows how fame and community can unite to create a platform for educational reform.
Dennis Littky at BIF-1
Co-founder and director of The Big Picture Company and The Met School, Littky is one of the most successful school reformers in the country. He's created a new education model based on the belief that schools must be personalized, educating every student equally, one student at a time.
Dennis Littky at BIF-4
Education maverick and a few of his kids talk straight about transforming education.
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."
Roger Mandle at BIF-2
As president of Rhode Island School of Design Roger Mandle often asked himself can one be an administrator and an artist at the same time. As he discusses the art of innovation Roger shares that RISD has become his medium and students his audience.
Roger Martin at BIF-5
The dean of the Rotman School talks about how today's MBA programs create nothing but "jargon spewing economic vandals" and the imperative for change.