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In this TEDxBoston talk, Amos Winter explains the user-driven design of the Leveraged Freedom Chair and what it takes to make mobility both capable and affordable.
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Selected coverage, conversations, and recognition featuring Dr. Amos Winter and his work in global engineering, innovation, and design.
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In this TEDxBoston talk, Amos Winter explains the user-driven design of the Leveraged Freedom Chair and what it takes to make mobility both capable and affordable.
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Podcast
On HBR IdeaCast, Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan discuss how designing for emerging markets can unlock better, more affordable innovations everywhere.
HBR IdeaCast: 500K monthly listeners
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Press
In Fortune, Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan make the case for high-performance, lower-cost solutions rooted in lessons from emerging markets.
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Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto · Event
Amos Winter presented the ideas behind Global by Design in a hybrid author talk and moderated discussion at the Rotman School of Management.
View the eventInvestor’s Business Daily · Interview
Amos Winter shares practical guidance for recognizing global opportunities, validating them early, and designing high-value solutions that work across markets.
Read the interviewKPCW Cool Science Radio · Radio interview
Amos Winter joins Cool Science Radio to discuss Global by Design, engineering for real-world constraints, and innovations that travel across markets.
Listen to the interviewFinancial Times · Book roundup
The Financial Times selected Global by Design for its monthly reading roundup, recognizing the book’s perspective on creating innovations that scale across borders.
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The Good Leadership Podcast · Podcast
Amos Winter discusses innovation under constraints, the global relevance of emerging-market ideas, and the human judgment that turns technology into meaningful solutions.
Watch the episodeStrategy Skills Podcast · Podcast
Amos Winter introduces the ideas behind Global by Design, connecting engineering design, strategy, and the needs of people in resource-constrained markets.
Listen to the interviewFortune · Commentary
Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan argue that affordability requires high-performance solutions designed around real user needs, not simply stripped-down versions of existing products.
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MIT News · Profile
MIT News explores how Amos Winter’s research and career informed the framework in Global by Design for creating products that succeed in both emerging and developed markets.
Read on MIT NewsGBH’s The Curiosity Desk · Radio interview
Amos Winter helps explain the engineering and practical challenges of desalination, and how technology can make clean water more accessible.
Listen on GBHIVY · Video
Amos Winter shares a practical method for assessing the problem, innovation, and value merits of a product opportunity before committing resources to it.
Watch the clipBCG’s Thinkers & Ideas Podcast · Podcast
Co-author Vijay Govindarajan discusses the book’s approach to designing innovations that deliver high performance at lower cost and across markets.
Listen to the episodeStrategy Skills Podcast · Podcast
Co-author Vijay Govindarajan discusses the principles behind Global by Design and the case for building better innovations from emerging-market requirements.
Listen to the episodeLinkedIn · Review by Dr. Petri I. Salonen
Dr. Petri I. Salonen reviews Global by Design and its framework for creating innovations that scale, travel, and transform.
Read the reviewDisrupTV · Video interview
Amos Winter connects global-design thinking to the AI era, explaining why human judgment, deep requirements work, and real-world context remain essential to innovation.
Watch the interviewTuck School of Business · Interview
Vijay Govindarajan discusses the book’s argument that companies can create products that are both affordable and high-performing by designing around the realities of emerging markets.
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FinTech TV · Video interview
Amos Winter discusses how to develop products for global markets, focusing on the principles of designing for emerging economies and creating solutions that can scale worldwide.
Watch on FinTech TVHBR IdeaCast · Podcast
Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan explain why designing for emerging markets before developed ones can yield benefits for customers, companies, and societies everywhere.
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Getting to Yes, And with Kelly Leonard · Podcast and video
Amos Winter discusses empathetic design, creativity, collaboration, AI, and the human skills that remain essential to solving meaningful problems.
Watch the conversationOutthinkers Podcast · Podcast
Host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with co-author Vijay Govindarajan about the book’s global-design framework and why the next breakthrough can begin in an emerging market.
Listen on SpotifyStanford Social Innovation Review · Book excerpt
An excerpt from Global by Design examines how well-intentioned innovation can fail when it overlooks the needs, priorities, and circumstances of the people it aims to serve.
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MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering · News
MIT MechE highlights the release of Global by Design and the framework’s roots in Amos Winter’s work creating high-impact technologies for resource-constrained communities.
Read on MIT MechEThe Creative Factor · Profile
A profile of how Amos Winter’s love of motorsports and automotive tinkering informs his approach to engineering innovation, teaching, and designing for global markets.
Read the profileClearPurpose Blog · Book brief
An in-depth brief on Global by Design and its practical framework for creating innovations that meet the demanding price and performance needs of global markets.
Read the briefAmazon · Customer review by Robert Morris
A detailed reader review highlights the book’s frameworks and methods for designing products and innovations that work across global markets.
Read the reviewSarderTV · Video interview with Vijay Govindarajan
Co-author Vijay Govindarajan uses the low-cost ECG machine as a case study in reverse innovation, global strategy, and the ideas explored in Global by Design.
Watch the interviewStevo’s Novel Ideas · Book roundup
Global by Design was included in a roundup of recent releases focused on product and innovation ideas.
View the roundupMIT News · Award
Amos Winter was named a 2026 MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT’s highest honor for undergraduate education, recognizing exemplary and sustained contributions to teaching and mentoring.
Read the announcementMIT School of Engineering · Award
The Bose Award honors a faculty member whose contributions to education are characterized by dedication, care, and creativity.
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MIT Alumni Association / GEAR Center · Webinar
Amos Winter, Mohamed Naouri, and Fiona Grant present GEAR Center projects in water and agriculture across the Middle East and North Africa.
Watch the webinarWBUR Here & Now · Radio interview
Amos Winter discusses GEAR Center desalination research, including solar-powered electrodialysis systems designed to make clean water accessible without costly energy storage.
Listen on WBUREsses Magazine · Profile
An in-depth profile connects Amos Winter’s love of motorsports and automotive engineering with his work as an educator and innovator.
Read the profileMIT News / Nature Water · Research
Jonathan Bessette, Shane Pratt, and Amos Winter published research on controlling solar-powered electrodialysis desalination so it can operate primarily on solar power.
Read the articleMIT Department of Mechanical Engineering · News
Amos Winter’s promotion to full professor of mechanical engineering was announced effective July 1, 2024.
Learn moreMIT News · Announcement
MIT announced the endowed GEAR Center, directed by Amos Winter, to expand work on technologies for water, agriculture, energy, health, and other global challenges.
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MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering · Documentary film
This documentary follows GEAR Center collaborators developing low-cost, solar-powered precision irrigation technologies with farmers in resource-constrained settings.
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TEDxBoston · TED Talk
Amos Winter explains how user-driven engineering led to the Leveraged Freedom Chair, an all-terrain wheelchair designed to be capable, affordable, and repairable.
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