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Private Innovation in the Public Interest — 104 episodes
104: Mabel Abraham. Let’s talk about how inequality gets produced inadvertently by unbiased people
103: Chris Yenkey. You cooperate as a driver in profoundly complex ways, yet if you sometimes speed, you’re engaging episodically in corruption.
102: Deepak Somaya. Tech firms get advantage by attracting and retaining committed people – both as employees and as customers
101: Colleen Cunningham. Guardrails + Incentives - Excessive Competition = Innovation
100: Anita McGahan. What have we learned, and where do we go from here?
99: Barry Finette. It's always just about the patient
98: DK Kryscynski. AI can take over drudgework and free you up to do more meaningful work
97: Bryan Stroube. Finding untapped potential in underserved corners of markets
96: Bukky Oyedeji. How ambience, spatial configuration and aesthetics unlock strategic human capital
95: Christiane Bode. What employees want from firms may not be optimized social impact
94: Michael Leiblein. Strategy offers serious insights on how to create structures that shape corporate investments
93: Arzi Abdi. Find solutions to long problems
92: Sharon Alvarez. Soul is what makes entrepreneurs successful.
91: Caroline Fry. Scientific knowledge doesn’t flow like water. It is exchanged by people who need support.
90: Isin Guler. Innovation has at least as much to do with transforming people as with technology
89: Kris Irwin. To understand success and failure, you need to understand the people involved.
88: Jeffrey York. What are we going to do with the stranded assets of oil & gas companies?
87: Nur Ahmed. Responsible AI, Regulatory Ambiguity, and Improving Lives
86: Sharique Hasan. Why Do We Miss So Many High-Potential Ideas and the People Who Produce Them?
85: Christina Lubinski. Entrepreneurship Takes a Village, So Let’s Stop Heroizing Start-Up CEOs
84: Michael Bikard. Eureka Moments and Credit for Ideas
83: Aseem Kaul. Reinventing Strategy
82: Lori Rosenkopf. Entrepreneurship is Leadership in Innovation
81: Wes Sine. We Have The Wills, Value, And Technology For An Energy Transition.
80: Nan Jia. AI May Shape Geopolitics
79: Damon Phillips. Prisoner Releases, Entrepreneurship, Jazz, Creativity, and a Sociologist Who Loves Talking with Economists
78: Ranjay Gulati. The Forest for the Trees on Courage
77: Rem Koning. AI Can Democratize Entrepreneurship
76: Phanish Puranam. Let’s Re-Humanize Organizations!
75: Florenta Teodoridis. Let ’s Use AI to Unleash Creativity
74: Aline Gatignon. Cross-Sector Partnership Solve Big Problems in Ways that Make Organizations of All Types Perform Better
73: Christine Nolder. Let 's Get Skeptical About The Skepticism of Financial Auditors
72: Lars Frederiksen. We Invented The Wreck of The Titanic When We Invented The Titanic. Let’s Not Do That With AI.
71: Sophie Bacq. Beware of the Dark Side of Social Entrepreneurship. What ’s the Bright Side? Elevating Shared Interests, Practices, Identities and Fates
70: Julian Birkinshaw. The Resurgence of Large Incumbent Firms Is Not Just Possible, It’s Widespread.
69: Beth Embry. The Capacity For Disaster Response Occurs Before The Disaster Occurs
68: Lamar Pierce. No More Whack-A-Mole. Managers Need To Think About Problems That Can Arise From The Incentives They Put In Place.
67: András Tilcsik. Great Companies Force A Reckoning On Unwanted Problems
66: Andrew Foley. Help Your People To Help You Succeed At Developing A Great Idea
65: Jillian Chown. Your Professional Peers Matter A Lot – Even More Than Your Organizational Mandate – To What You Do
64: Chris Eaglin. Human Ingenuity And Resilience Tip Toward Collaborative Community Even Under The Most Difficult of Circumstances
63: Keyvan Vakili. Our Understanding of How Scientists Work Is a Mess. AI Can Take Advantage of That To Persuade Us We’re Wrong When We’re Right.
62: Carlos Inoue. Rotations of Workers Across The Public And Private Sectors Can Unlock Value Creation
61: Leandro Nardi. Outstanding Companies Find Long Term Payoffs Through Excellence In Creating Value For Society
60: James Orbinski. Public Good Depends On Recognition of Each Others’ Innate Dignity
59: Jim Lavery. Cultivating A Deep Internal Acknowledgement of Others’ Interests Gives Us Our Best Chance at Solving Public Problems
58: Donal Crilly. There’s A Better Way To Negotiate Our Way Toward A Sustainable Future Than You May Think
57: Pinar Ozcan. Frontier Tech = Prosperity = Social Impact
56: Russ Coff. Actualization Through Work Rests On Much More Than What You Get Paid
55: John Bryson. Keep Talking
54: Jay Barney. What Does The Most Highly Cited Scholar In The Field of Strategy See As Important Right Now?
53: Matt Harder. Government Is Broken. Civic Trust Is The Fix.
52: Maurizio Zollo. Half Of All CSR Investments Aren ’ t Intended To Be Profitable
51: Mahka Moeen. The Emergence of an Industry Depends On Tech + Demand + Ecosystem + Institutions
50: Howard Aldrich. Entrepreneurship Is Usually Just One Chapter in a Rich Life
49: Stefan Dimitriadis. Entrepreneurship = Resilience + Pragmatic Pivoting in the Face of Extortion and Other Problems
48: Jiao Luo. Why is CSR So Unprofitable Despite The Best Efforts of Companies To Shape Public Policy To Support It?
47: Robert Eberhart. “Entrepreneurship ” Is An Ideology About How We Relate To Each Other That Rarely Delivers On What We Are Reaching For
46: Tim Weiss. African Entrepreneurship Occurs In Community, Not Through The Individual Acting Alone
45: Laura Doering. Repeated Interactions Between Microfinance Lenders And Borrowers Can Elevate Outcomes
44: Rob Nason. Entrepreneurship in Africa Demands More of Us Than We May Be Giving
43: Ilze Kivleniece. Sometimes The Best Way to Serve The Public Is Privately
42 : Eppa Rixey. How Redemption of a Degraded, Contaminated Piece of Commercial Property Can Lead To The Rebuilding of Community
41: Pushpika Vishwanathan. Stakeholder Power = Holding Managers True To Corporate Purpose
40: Gabriel Cavalli. AI Is Helping Scientists Understand The Nature of Life Itself
39: Arielle Newman. Reshaping Opportunities to Enhance Entrepreneurship Can Exclude Those Who Need It Most
38 : Chirantan Chatterjee. Democratizing Science is a Powerful Act of Social Justice
37: Jerry Davis. Let ’s Tame Corporate Power NOW
36: Leah Morris. Unleashing the Full Potential of AI Requires a Whole New Approach to Investing
35: Tarek Ghani. Humanitarian Aid is Much More Effective When Targeted Recipients Know in Advance That it’s Coming
34: Devin Stein. Your Community Can Achieve its Goals More Effectively by Working With State and Federal Authorities
33: Shon Hiatt. Let’s Have an Adult Conversation About Energy Security
32: Sukhun Kang. We Don’t Cure What We Can’t Diagnose, but We Don’t Find Medicines for Diseases that We Don’t Know About
31: Diana Jue-Rajasingh. Bringing High-Tech Products to Low-Income Communities Depends on Deep, Time-Consuming Engagement to Overcome Local Resistance
30: Mark Desjardine. We’re Being Unfair to Future Generations Without Sustainability
29: Andrew King. Our Understanding of Returns to ESG Investing Needs to be Interrogated
28: Catherine D'Amato. How a Large NGO Advocates for Small Partners
27: Brennan Lake. Use Your Company’s Assets for Good
26: Peter Klein. Across Sectors, Entrepreneurship = Collaboration + Trust
25: Kate Odziemkowska. Social-Change Advocates Can Help Companies Innovate
24: Myles Shaver. Change the World by Understanding Your Neighbors
23: Nicolai Foss. Let’s Find a Common Agenda on Climate and Other Social Challenges
22: Yiannis Ioannou. Making Space for Change in a System That Resists Disruption
21: Dan Cowen. Change Happens one Entrepreneur at a Time
20: Tima Bansal. The System Must Change
19: Rudy Durand. Move Social Impact from the Periphery to the Core of Your Company
18: Shirley Tang. The Paradoxes and Dilemmas of Transparency
17: Henri Hammond-Paul. Trust and Commitment in Public-Private Partnership
16: Daphne Baldassari. Mountains Beyond Mountains
15: Tunji Adegbesan. Small Companies can Drive the Social Impact of Big Companies
14: Raja Roy. Get Inspired by NASA
13: Jasjit Singh. Be Bigger Than Your Job
12: Thomaz Teodorovicz. Investing in the General Education of Some of the World’s Lowest-Income Workers
11: Dovev Lavie. Let’s Tap into Humanity’s Greatest Strength: Collaboration
10: Sergio Lazzarini. Listen to Your Community and Then Act Justly
9: Witold Henisz. The Power of Harnessing Ideals to Drive Change
8: Sarah Kaplan. Don’t Give up. Co-create. Innovate. Try Something!
7: Sandro Cabral. Companies Can Experiment Where Governments Can’t
6: Samina Karim. Individual Social Entrepreneurs Can Succeed Where Governments Can’t
5: Olga Hawn. Holding Companies Accountable Against Greenwashing
4: Kate Cummings. The Heavy Responsibility of Government Should be Taken More Seriously
3: Roger Martin. Get Strategic by Scaling Up Well-Tested Approaches
2: Leo Pongeluppe. Let’s Right Wrongs That are Readily Fixable – And Do it Now
1: Subi Rangan. Do Something! Do Anything! But Please Do it With a Clear Heart and Open Mind