taking BSSE out of the classroom

Disruptive Voice podcast, episode 7: Rethinking primary and secondary education in Nigeria with Michael Horn

Nigerian law mandates that students must attend school for nine years, but almost one out of every three primary age children is out of school…

Innovation > Infrastructure. America’s Tudor and Nigeria’s Dangote would agree.

Disruptive Voice podcast, episode 8: BSSE research paper series | Square Capital — Caroline Anastasi and Lyndsey Billings

Launched at the end 2009 to bring payment processing to small businesses previously unserved by the incumbents, Square has…

Disruptive Voice podcast, episode 5: Instant noodles in Nigeria — a market creating innovation. Talking with Tolaram Africa CEO Deepak Singhal

Senior researcher Efosa Ojomo has written in these pages about the impact that Tolaram…

Disruptive Voice podcast, episode 6: BSSE research paper series | Asian Paints — Aishwarya Ramakrishnan and Neha Rambhia (MBA 2016)

In post-independence India in the 1950’s, the paint industry was close to non-existent; at the low end…

What theory did you just use? News brief — week of Feb 29 2016

Years ago in the days of written correspondence, Clay would give his graduating students a stamp, and ask that they stay in touch after they graduated. There was, of course, a little twist…

Disruptive Voice podcast, episode 4: Higher education in Nigeria today — for the lucky few, often only with marginal upside

In the 1980’s, Nigeria’s universities were known for their leading research in agriculture and tropical health, but as…

Disruptive Voice podcast, episode 2: BSSE research paper series. Betterment - Krishna Kantheti, George Rudolph (MBA 2016)

In this new podcast series, Forum Director and BSSE Professor Derek van Bever talks to students about their final paper for…