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The Economy of Punishment

Harvard Business Review

Think about the repercussions of investing this money in incarceration instead in our education or healthcare systems. But in getting to know the prison population better, Cat's position began to change. "I It can cost as much as $60,000 a year to house a prisoner, which means the annual cost to taxpayers exceeds $60 billion.

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Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Harvard Business Review

But skepticism about design thinking has now begun to seep out onto the pages of business magazines and educational publications. It, too, was enthusiastically embraced by managers and policy makers, and was invoked to reshape practices in firms and government. In some ways, that’s a good thing.