[Mitworld] New: Christensen on the Innovator's Prescription, Brams on Democracy and Conflict

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[THE INNOVATOR'S PRESCRIPTION:
 A DISRUPTIVE SOLUTION TO THE HEALTHCARE CRISIS]

Christensen distills several books' worth of research describing how
business leaders sometimes metamorphose into losers when confronted with
market-rocking innovations. He also reveals how we may harness his
insights in such socially significant and complex industries as
healthcare.

SPEAKER:
Clayton Christensen
Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, Harvard
Business School
Author, The Innovator's Dilemma


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/594/>

[QUOTE]
"If you develop a product or service that helps people do something more
affordably and conveniently, something they're not trying to do, it just
never works. Even if they should do it, if they're not trying to do it,
it never works. A lot of problems with wellness programs: becoming
healthy is not a job people try to do until they're really sick."
-- Clayton Christensen


EVENT HOST: Engineering Systems Division <http://esd.mit.edu/>

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[HOW DEMOCRACY RESOLVES CONFLICT IN DIFFICULT GAMES]

Just in time for the election....

Using game theory, and with some help from the Bible, Steven Brams
argues that voting can resolve certain kinds of conflicts.

SPEAKER:
Steven Brams SB '62
Professor of Politics, New York University


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/593/>

[QUOTE]
"When games become voting games, cooperative outcomes take on a new
status... The idea is, if you don't have a sufficient number, nobody
pays, everybody suffers. If you have a sufficient number, everybody
pays....There aren't in-between outcomes where some pay and some don't,
and the ones that don't pay make out like bandits. That's what voting
does, it prevents that banditry."
-- Steven Brams


EVENT HOST: Principles of Engineering Practice (3.003)
<http://scripts.mit.edu/~3.003/EngPrac/index.php/>

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