tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/183735340 2008-11-14 14:14:01 -0500 MIT's Engineering Systems Division ESD PhD student David Broniatowski shares his research on a new technique for analyzing social dynamics in committees of technical experts. Click <a href="http://esd.mit.edu/phd/poster/broniatowski.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> to view associated content. 102 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/183714560 2008-11-14 14:15:09 -0500 MIT's Engineering Systems Division ESD PhD student Joao Castro shares his research on how product development teams engage in coordination and indentify who they need to work with. Click <a href="http://esd.mit.edu/phd/poster/castro.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> to view associated content. 117 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/183689660 2008-11-14 14:17:33 -0500 MIT's Engineering Systems Division ESD PhD student Mark Avnet shares his research on the relationship between the design process and shared knowledge in the design team. Click <a href="http://esd.mit.edu/phd/poster/avnet.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> to view associated content. 110 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/183670760 2008-11-14 14:18:39 -0500 MIT's Engineering Systems Division ESD PhD student Shardul Phadnis shares his research on the design of adaptable supply chains. Click <a href="http://esd.mit.edu/phd/poster/phadnis.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> to view associated content. 106 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/183646120 2008-11-14 14:20:50 -0500 MIT's Engineering Systems Division ESD PhD student Sid Rupani explores the question: What is the right level of standardization/variation in product development processes across different projects in an organization? The trade off is between the efficiency and learning benefits of standardization and optimally meeting the cost, schedule, and quality targets of each project. Click <a href="http://esd.mit.edu/phd/poster/rupani.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> to view associated content. 135 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/183627220 2008-11-14 14:21:54 -0500 MIT's Engineering Systems Division ESD PhD student Wen Feng shares his research on how to understand, model, and manage the stakeholder value network for making high-leverage business strategies as well as informing system architecture design and selection. Click <a href="http://esd.mit.edu/phd/poster/feng.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> to view associated content. 69 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/191660540 2009-08-04 16:16:56 -0400 Legatum Paul Polak isn’t your everyday global poverty fighter. He’s a 75-year old former psychiatrist who believes that the world’s poorest people, most of whom are farmers living on less than $2/day, are capable entrepreneurs and viable consumers. It’s a philosophy that drove him to start International Development Enterprises (IDE), a non-profit providing these $2/day farmers affordable irrigation & high-yield farming strategies. After 25 years, Dr. Polak and IDE succeeded in moving over 17 million people out of poverty. He has since turned over leadership of the organization to Al Doerkson but remains actively involved as a board member and advisor. Still driven to do more, he decided to start another non-profit venture, a for-profit venture, and to write a book, all aimed at harnessing the market to combat poverty. The non-profit, called D-Rev: Design for the Other 90%, aims to create a global “design revolution” to change the way the world’s best designers view and serve the 2.8 billion people who live on less than $2 a day. Dr. Polak outlines the principles for this design revolution in his book Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail, explaining how designers can profitably serve the world’s lowest-income consumers while simultaneously providing them a path out of poverty. His for-profit venture, called Windhorse International, will demonstrate that big business can be a part of this revolution. Poverty better watch out! 722