Innovation Hub Is Moving (Websites)!

Tuesday, July 24, 2012   0 comments.

Change is in the air: Innovation Hub is now airing Saturday at 7 a.m. on 89.7 and Saturday at 5 a.m. on Classical New England ... and the show has a new website. Thanks for following us so far, and please follow us now on the new WGBHNews.org.

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Encore: New Digs for the Workplace

By Kara Miller   |   Friday, July 6, 2012   0 comments.

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Today, we look at the changing workplace. Are we looking at a future of telecommuting, skyping, and emailing from home? Will employers increasingly move the workplace to the home?

At Google's offices in Zurich, employees work in hanging chairs. (andrewarchy via Flickr)

Or will offices become more like those of Google and Facebook — with free food, games, and quirky decorations — all of which might encourage you to spend just a little more time at work?

A panel of experts joins us to take a peek at the future. We'll explore the kinds of labor increasingly being rewarded and accommodated and who will have trouble making it in the new workplace.

Guests:

• Wendy Murphy, assistant professor of management, Babson College

• Fred Foulkes, professor, Boston University School of Management; and faculty director, Human Resources Policy Institute.

• David Sanford, executive vice president of client relations, Winter, Wyman

The Gig Economy

A common setup for a gig-worker: The coffee-shop desk. (librarianby day via Flickr)

We all know that musicians, models, and actors often have lives filled with unpredictable, one-time gigs. But what if, along with hip-hop bands, wedding photographers, and freelance writers, we’re all being enveloped by the gig economy?

WGBH reporter and host Ibby Caputo introduces us to a scap-hauling, satire-writing nanny; and a world where cobbling together jobs isn't unusual.

Guests:

• Ibby Caputo, reporter, WGBH

Social Entrepreneurship Keeps Life-saving Vaccines Cool

By Kara Miller   |   Saturday, June 30, 2012   0 comments.

This meningitis vaccine is part of a pilot program in Burkina Faso. Sometimes, available vaccines can't be used in remote parts of the world because there is no way to refrigerate them, but our guest this week has a solution. (WHO via Flickr)

We’re joined by a winner of Harvard’s President's Challenge for social entrepreneurship, Michael Shrader.

His team knew that, every year, more than two million people around the world die due to diseases that we actually have vaccines for, because so many vaccines need refrigeration. And it can be incredibly difficult to get a vaccine to a remote village in Africa or Southeast Asia in good shape, if it needs to be refrigerated along the way.

Shrader will share their ingenious solution.

Plus, we talk to social entrepreneurship experts about a surge of young people who want to do good and make money.

Guests:
 

• Michael Schrader, winner of Harvard's President's Challenge for Social Entrepreneurship; co-founder and president, Vaxess Technologies

• Gordon Jones, director, Harvard Innovation Lab

• Gordon Bloom, director and founder, Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory, Harvard

Checking in on the Job Market

By Kara Miller   |   Saturday, June 30, 2012   0 comments.

Today, we take the pulse of the job market. Are companies finally starting to feel more secure? And what kinds of jobs and skills are now most in demand?

Plus, we look at summertime hiring. Is it a myth that recruitment goes on vacation?

Guests:

• Stu Coleman, partner and general Manager, Winter Wyman

• Elaine Varelas, managing partner, Keystone Associates; writer, Boston Globe's “Job Doc”

• Melinda Gleason, delivery team leader, Forum

As Water Supplies Wane, What's Next?

By Kara Miller   |   Saturday, June 23, 2012   0 comments.

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A girl drinks from a tap in Rwanda. (jon gos/flickr)

We look at the increasing scarcity of water.

As the world’s population explodes, from 7 billion to 10 billion, will violence erupt over water the way it has over other natural resources, like gold, oil and diamonds?

Who will control water? And how much will it cost to access?

Guests:

• William Moomaw, director, Center for International Environmental and Resource Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

• Shafiqul Islam, director of the Water Diplomacy Initiative; professor, Tufts School of Engineering

• Lisa Sorgini Marchewka, vice president, Oasys Water

How the Local Food Movement Falls Short

By Kara Miller   |   Friday, June 22, 2012   0 comments.

The locavore movement is increasingly powerful — but one author says the movement is not nearly diverse enough and excludes some of the very people who most need healthy, affordable food.

We look at eating local — from a radically different perspective.

Guest:  

• Julian Agyeman, co-editor, Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability

About Innovation Hub

Each week, Kara Miller talks to Boston's most innovative thinkers, examining new ideas and potential solutions to today’s many challenges. Topics range from education to health care to green energy. Join us on Saturdays at 7 a.m. and Sundays at 10 p.m.

Kara Miller
As a radio host, Kara Miller has interviewed thinkers from E.J. Dionne to Howard Gardner, Deepak Chopra to Lani Guinier. She is a panelist on WGBH-TV's "Beat the Press," as well as an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The National Journal, The Boston Herald, Boston Magazine, and The International Herald Tribune.

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