Vijay Govindarajan is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business and the Founding Director of the Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric. He is co-author of “Engineering Reverse Innovations,” winner of the HBR McKinsey Award for 2015. He is ranked #3 on the Thinkers50 list of the world’s most influential business thinkers and has appeared on CNBC-TV and Bloomberg TV and in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Businessweek. He has worked with CEOs and top management teams in more than 25% of the Fortune 500 firms to discuss, challenge, and escalate their thinking about strategy. He is the author of several previous books including the New York Times bestseller Reverse Innovation. He grew up in India where he learned the Hindu philosophy of creation, destruction and preservation that is the basis of The Three Box Solution.

Taddy Hall explains the value of innovation stories rather than statistics.

In this clip, Taddy describes how important stories can be to innovation… with cheese!

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TADDY HALL is a Principal with The Cambridge Group and Leader of Nielsen’s Breakthrough Innovation Project. As such, he helps senior executives create successful new products and improve innovation processes. He also works extensively with executives in emerging markets as an advisor to the non-profit, Endeavor. He has collaborated with Professor Clayton Christensen for nearly two decades.

Why do innovators need to shoot puppies? Brad Barbera explains this metaphor from his book on keeping innovation simple.

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Brad Barbera is an author, speaker, trainer, and consultant in the field of innovation and product development. His book Keep Innovation Simple – Lead with Clarity and Focus in a World of Constant Change, brings thoroughly researched evidence-based principles to the field of innovation, while making the reading of a business book actually entertaining. With over twenty-five years of experience creating hundreds of new products and services, Brad has been bringing his experience and research to leaders of businesses and nonprofits as the Founder and Principal of Pi Innovation LLC since 2009. He is a certified New Product Development Professional (NPDP), has served as the Executive Director of the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Visions magazine. He’s also a competitive stair climber and a moderately competent chess player.

Gaming guru Joel Breton discusses the new HTC Vive and the future of virtual reality.

Joel is Vice President of Global VR Content for HTC Vive. He and his team are actively working with content creators around the world to develop a rich content portfolio across all categories of VR, including games, education, film, video, music, shopping, and entertainment. Joel has produced more than twenty platinum-selling videogames in his career. After beginning his career at Sega of America, his first role as a game producer was for GT interactive, where he produced Doom, Duke Nukem, Unreal, and the Unreal game engine version 1.0. He then moved to Bethesda Softworks, where he launched Sea Dogs, Burnout, and Pirates of the Caribbean. Joel then spent 4 years at MTV Networks, where he served as Director of Content and engaged with content developers to develop blockbuster online, mobile, and console games. Joel believes that people need to have ample fun in their lives, and he has focused his career on creating fun and entertainment for millions of people to enjoy.

Peter Andreasson reveals Uber and Volvo’s new partnership: a self-driving taxi.

Lead cross brand and cross functional and international architecture and platform development teams both in Germany and Sweden at Ford and Volvo 2000-2007, meeting targets for global products of multiple brands, produced on three continents. Lead Volvo Chassis engineering as Engineering director 2007-2008. Chief engineer and vehicle architect for Volvo’s all new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) since initial concept phase 2008. Volvo Technical Program Manager in the Volvo/Uber joint development program for autonomous vehicles since July1, 1st 2016. Member of the Volvo Cars Global Leadership Team.

Dale Dougherty explains the significance of the Maker Movement.

In this clip, Dale describes how the creativity of the Maker Movement came to bear in a G.E. Hackathon…

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Dale Dougherty is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Maker Media, Inc. which launched Make:magazine in 2005, and Maker Faire, which held its first event in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006. Dale’s vision and mission continue to be the guiding force for the family of brands. “The maker movement is contributing to a thriving market ecosystem, serving the needs of makers as they seek out product support, startup advice, and funding avenues. Make: plays an important role as a collaborator and resource for makers as they transition from hobbyists to professionals.” Make: began at O’Reilly Media where Dale was a co-founder and the first editor of their computing trade books. When not in the office, Dale can be found making award-winning wines with his family in Sebastopol, CA.

Dr. Klasko explains how we can fix American healthcare.

In this clip, Stephen relates an experience he had that drove home the need for sweeping, radical change in our healthcare systems:

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As the President and CEO of Philadelphia-based Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, Stephen K. Klasko, MD, MBA, is bridging the art and science of medicine and healthcare transformation.

He has championed transformation of American health care as university president, dean of two medical colleges, and CEO of three academic health centers. He is author of 2016’s We CAN Fix Healthcare in America, and editor in chief of “Healthcare Transformation.”

Since 2014, Jefferson Health has grown from a three hospital urban academic medical center with annual revenues of $1.8 billion to a major regional academic medical center. Currently an eight-hospital system, resulting from the merger of Jefferson with Abington Health, Jefferson Health will expand to an 11-hospital system with the proposed partnership mergers with Aria Health and Kennedy Health. Jefferson has the largest tele-health network in the region, the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, and an outpatient footprint that is among the most technologically advanced in the region.

Upon completion of the proposed merger with Philadelphia University — creating a comprehensive university with a forward-thinking education model — Jefferson will have combined annual revenues exceeding $4.8 billion, more than 28,000 employees, 7,800 students, 6,000 physicians/practitioners and 4,000 faculty.

Through a unique four pillar model, academic-clinical-innovation-philanthropy, Jefferson has attracted venture capital and transformational gifts. Under Dr. Klasko’s leadership, Sidney Kimmel donated $110 million to Jefferson on June 18, 2014, the largest gift in the University’s history. Philanthropy and innovation have also resulted in the addition of the Brind-Marcus Center of Integrative Medicine, nationally recognized for its modern medical and targeted complementary therapies.

Dr. Klasko’s research and experience led to his 1999 book: The Phantom Stethoscope: A Field Manual for an Optimistic Future in Medicine. His new book, We CAN Fix Healthcare in America, posits a future with “twelve disruptors of the demise of the old healthcare.” He has been an international speaker on changing the DNA of health care through physician leadership.

Dr. Klasko is ideally suited to lead such initiatives, having completed a grant after receiving his MBA from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania on selecting and educating physicians to be leaders of change. His entrepreneurial spirit helped one university he led to be in the top ten in the world for obtaining US patents. His unique educational program called SELECT (Scholarly Excellence, Leadership Education, Collaborative Training) is recognized for its focus on choosing medical students based on emotional intelligence and leadership potential.

He serves on the corporate board and audit committee of Teleflex (TFX: NYSE), a multi-billion dollar healthcare solutions corporation. He also serves on the board of Lehigh University, the Emory University/Georgia Tech Innovation advisory board, and the Friedrich’s Ataxia Research Alliance.

Keller Rinaudo explains how Zipline is using drones to drop life-saving medical supplies to Rwanda.

How can companies build and sustain competitive advantage? Professor and author Todd Zenger analyzes several companies that have done it well.

Todd Zenger is the author of Beyond Competitive Advantage: How to Solve the Puzzle of Sustaining Growth While Creating Value, published by Harvard Business Review Press. He is a global expert and has lectured widely on topics of corporate strategy, strategic leadership, and organization design. Zenger is the newly appointed N. Eldon Tanner Chair in strategy and strategic Leadership at the David Eccles school of Business at the University of Utah. He also holds the designation of Presidential Professor at the University of Utah and is chair of the entrepreneurship and strategy department. He previously served on the faculty of Washington University’s Olin Business School, where he was the long-standing chair of the strategy group and academic director of the executive MBA program. Zenger is active in consulting and executive teaching in the areas of strategy and strategic leadership. He writes for the Harvard Business Review on topics of strategy.

Marcus discusses some of the ideas developed at IKEA and what the future of a table might look like.

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Marcus Engman was raised in Älmhult and started during his high school studies to work extra at the IKEA store during weekends and summer breaks already in 1983. During the mid 80´s Marcus was a home furnishing apprentice to the IKEA designer Mary Ekmark and has since held positions within IKEA such as Communications & Interior design (ComIn) Manager in stores in Sweden. In total he had been with IKEA for 12 years, before founding his own retail agency. In January of this year, Marcus Engman returned to IKEA as Design Manager. He has a strong passion for democratic design and for home furnishing for the many people. Marcus is known for his creativity, his ambition to think differently and his ability to empower others to be bold and find new ways.