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The Personality of Popular Facebook Users
We study the relationship between Facebook popularity (number of contacts) and personality traits on a large number of subjects. We test to which extent two prevalent viewpoints hold. That is, popular users (those with many social contacts) are…
myPersonality Project: Example of Successful Utilization of Online Social Networks for Large-Scale Social Research
Anacor: Neglected Disease R&D Within a For-Profit Model
Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a for-profit biotech firm founded in 2002, which focuses on discovering, developing, and commercializing novel small-molecule therapeutics derived from a unique boron chemistry platform. While performing early…
Brilliance I: From Prototype to Product Company
When team members at D-Rev — a U.S. nonprofit technology company with the mission to improve the health and incomes of people living on less than $4 per day — became interested in the problem of infant jaundice, they initiated a detailed…
Brilliance II: Achieving Impact Through Licensing
When team members at D-Rev — a U.S. nonprofit technology company with the mission to improve the health and incomes of people living on less than $4 per day — became interested in the problem of infant jaundice, they initiated a detailed…
Consure Medical II: Developing a Regulatory and Clinical Strategy to Support Global Growth
Consure Medical is committed to developing a solution that solves the problems inherent in existing fecal incontinence treatments yet is simple enough for a motivated family member to use. With guidance from top doctors at the All India Institute…
CycleBeads I: Building Acceptance for a Simple Idea
To help address the issue of unplanned pregnancy and maternal mortality in the developing world, researchers at the University of Georgetown’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) recognized the need for an intuitive, natural contraception…
CycleBeads II: Creating a Dual Market
To help address the issue of unplanned pregnancy and maternal mortality in the developing world, researchers at the University of Georgetown’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) recognized the need for an intuitive, natural contraception…
Design that Matters: Designing Contextually Appropriate Products
Incubators can prevent infant deaths from hypothermia, shorten hospital stays, and reduce the rate of neonatal complications that can lead to lifelong illness and disability. Unfortunately, they are far too expensive for many resource-constrained…
Diagnostics for the Real World I: Addressing Stakeholder Resistance
Diagnostics for the Real World (DRW), a for-profit spinout from the Diagnostics Development Unit at the University of Cambridge, is focused on manufacturing and commercializing technologies created at the university that can help address the…
Diagnostics for the Real World II: Raising Funds for a Niche Solution
Diagnostics for the Real World (DRW), a for-profit spinout from the Diagnostics Development Unit at the University of Cambridge, is focused on manufacturing and commercializing technologies created at the university that can help address the…
DoseRight II: Transitioning to High Volume Production
When 3rd Stone Design, a product design, strategy, and development consultancy, licensed the DoseRight Syringe Clip out of the Rice University Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB) program, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) had placed a…
DoseRight I: Moving out of the Lab
The Rice 360° Institute for Global Health Technologies seeks to design and implement technologies that improve health and reduce poverty. Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB), Rice 360°’s undergraduate program, challenges students to solve global…
Embrace: Deciding on a Hybrid Structure
While attending Stanford, the Embrace team developed an idea for an innovative infant warmer to help low-birth-weight infants. The early prototype looked much like a sleeping bag for babies. While the form factor was unique, the real breakthrough…
Giving 2.0: Getting Together to Give
Gradian II: Marketing to Multiple Stakeholders in a Complicated Field
After observing too many unnecessary injuries and deaths caused by surgeries that were interrupted or canceled due to the unavailability of anesthesia, Dr. Paul Fenton designed a device called the Universal Anaesthesia Machine (UAM) that could…
Gradian I: Spinning Out a Commercial Entity from a Nonprofit Foundation
After observing too many unnecessary injuries and deaths caused by surgeries that were interrupted or canceled due to the unavailability of anesthesia, Dr. Paul Fenton designed a device called the Universal Anaesthesia Machine (UAM) that could…
IDRI: Neglected Disease R&D with a Nonprofit Model
The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) was founded by immunologist Steve Reed in 1993 as a nonprofit global health research center dedicated to applying advances in immunology to the development of products to prevent, detect, and treat…
Impact Review: Sustaining a Good Idea Without a Standalone Business Model
While enrolled in a course focused on entrepreneurship, a team of Stanford students set out to create a platform for developing-world healthcare providers that would facilitate improved information sharing about high-impact, affordable solutions…
KickStart I: Delivering Enduring Solutions
Having observed too many development projects that appeared successful at first, but then failed as soon as the development agency moved on, Martin Fisher and Nick Moon felt strongly about taking a different approach. They believed that the root…