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The Economy of Punishment

Harvard Business Review

But in getting to know the prison population better, Cat's position began to change. "I That these guys who had run drug businesses had all these entrepreneurial characteristics like scrappiness, charisma, and real skills in leadership and management." I suddenly realized I was meeting entrepreneurs in prison.

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Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Harvard Business Review

However, it reaffirms the privileged role of the designer, positioning her as the vessel through which all the implicit understandings that make it into the final design must first pass. In some ways, that’s a good thing. She is the instrument that transforms messy ambiguity into the clean lines of an elegant solution.