Geoffrey Tabin The Cataract Blindness Challenge Innovations Case Discussion: Aravind Eye Care System The first Champilimaud Award for the “contribution to vision in the developing world,” accompanied by a prize of Euro 1 millón, era…
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V. Kasturi Rangan and R.D. Thulasiraj
V. Kasturi Rangan and R.D. Thulasiraj Making Sight Affordable Innovations Case Narrative: The Aravind Eye Care System About 40 million people in the world are blind. The prevalence of blindness in most industrialized countries of…
Bill Gates
Bill Gates Address at Harvard Commencement, Julio 7, 2007 President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, padres, y especialmente, el…
Matthew Basilico y Connie Chen
Matthew Basilico and Connie Chen The New Gates in Harvard Yard A Students’ Response to the Philanthropist’s Call to Action Comment on Address at Harvard by Bill Gates Bill Gates stood in front of the…
Hassan Masum, Abdallah S. Daar, Sara Al-Bader,
Hassan Masum, Abdallah S. Daar, Sara Al-Bader, Ronak Shah, and Peter A. Singer Accelerating Health Product Innovation in sub-Saharan Africa Before the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation began to make its extraordinary contributions, little funding…
Franco Furger y Francis Fukuyama
Franco Furger and Francis Fukuyama Beyond Bioethics A Proposal for Modernizing the Regulation of Human Biotechnologies Reproductive medicine and biomedical research are advancing quickly—though few seem to notice outside the medical and scientific communities. According…
Timothy E. Wirth
Timothy E. Wirth The Biofuels Conundrum Their Potential for Good or Ill is Enormous; Getting the Rules Right is Critical Climate change has risen to the forefront of the international agenda, and not just as…
Karim R. Lakhani and Jill A. Panetta
Karim R. Lakhani and Jill A. Panetta The Principles of Distributed Innovation “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else” is known as Joy’s Law in the high-tech industry….
Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson The Policy Analysis Market A Thwarted Experiment in the Use of Prediction Markets for Public Policy Innovations Case Narrative: Policy Analysis Market The past few years have seen an explosion of interest in…