Emma Schoenfelner

Social labs bring together stakeholders with different, even opposing, points of view in a practical effort to promote systemic change. Show host Dave Goldberg, recently witnessed one session of a social lab called the Engineering Change Lab in Toronto, Ontario that brought together public officials, educators, engineering practitioners, and engineering professional organizations in an effort to bring about substantive change…

Increased specialization and expertise have been hallmarks of both higher education and commerce for many centuries. And this game plan worked sufficiently well until information technology facilitated low-cost integration across disciplines in new ways. The resulting misalignments and disruptions are felt in corporations as much as universities, and both struggle to find new leadership, new institutional structures, and new underlying…

Higher education continues to face many challenges. Protests have increased on campus. Costs continue to rise. Enrollments continue to decline, and substantive change continues to elude much of the academy. In this show, host Dave Goldberg is joined by Mark Somerville of Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and Big Beacon Radio program assistant Emma Schoenfelner to look back over…

We live in a time of increasing job uncertainty and instability, and navigating a path through such changing times is made even more difficult because practices and habits of success are themselves unsettled. Against this backdrop, Coach Bev Jones has written a new book, "Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act like a CEO" that helps to navigate a steady course through…