Private Innovation in the Public Interest
By Anita McGahan
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Episodes: 124
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Tune in with Professor Anita McGahan as she speaks with leading thinkers to understand and reinvent corporate social responsibility in service of the public good. Presented by Pi Squared, a project of the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University, this series explores new ways for companies, NGOs, and even government itself to collaborate and drive meaningful change.
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124: Amisha Miller. Why does our system for accelerating entrepreneurs produce so many unwanted outcomes?
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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123: Britta Glennon. Immigration doesn’t take US jobs, it drives US firms to search for talent
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Sep 24, 2026 |
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122: Tom Lyon. We’re going backwards on corporate environmentalism
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Sep 17, 2026 |
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121: Michelle Rogan. Are you perceived by your employer as “up to no good” if you take on social-impact work?
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Sep 10, 2026 |
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120: Michael Pirson. How can business and tech get support human dignity and flourishing.
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Sep 03, 2026 |
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119: Valentina Assenova. Silicon Valley can learn from the rest of the world about human actualization
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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118: Zeke Hernandez. Immigration is good for economic prosperity – but it can take two or three generations to come fully to fruition
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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117: Vikram Bhargava. New technologies like AI that change how we relate to each other also change our ethics
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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116: Sekou Bermiss. Political ideology and diversity influence firm performance in unexpected and subtle ways
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Aug 06, 2026 |
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115: Christos Pitelis. Entrepreneurship in the “praxis” is our chance for global sustainable value creation
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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114: Wesley Koo. Platforms can be confusing and scary
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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113: Audra Wormald. How David overshadowed Goliath to create a new way of banking in low-income settings
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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112: Rachelle Sampson. How can executives overcome short-term pressures to invest for the long term?
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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111: Shaz Ansari. Don’t surrender your cognition to AI
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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110: Brent Goldfarb. Great scientists think big, think long-term, and have integrity
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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109: Adam Clark. Authentic organizational commitment is a long game with a big payoff
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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108: Herman Aguinis. Know your tools. And use them for impact
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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107: Felipe Csaszar. Just as computers replaced human elevator operators, AI may replace Strategy executives
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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106: Aparajita Agarwal. The local agents delivering mobile money in low-income communities aren’t in it to maximize their incomes
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May 28, 2026 |
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105: Hyunjin Kim. Sure, AI is widely available, but organizations vary a lot in their capabilities for using it
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May 21, 2026 |
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104: Mabel Abraham. Let’s talk about how inequality gets produced inadvertently by unbiased people
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May 14, 2026 |
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103: Chris Yenkey. You cooperate as a driver in profoundly complex ways, yet if you sometimes speed, you’re engaging episodically in corruption.
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May 07, 2026 |
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102: Deepak Somaya. Tech firms get advantage by attracting and retaining committed people – both as employees and as customers
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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101: Colleen Cunningham. Guardrails + Incentives - Excessive Competition = Innovation
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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100: Anita McGahan. What have we learned, and where do we go from here?
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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99: Barry Finette. It's always just about the patient
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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98: DK Kryscynski. AI can take over drudgework and free you up to do more meaningful work
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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97: Bryan Stroube. Finding untapped potential in underserved corners of markets
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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96: Bukky Oyedeji. How ambience, spatial configuration and aesthetics unlock strategic human capital
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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95: Christiane Bode. What employees want from firms may not be optimized social impact
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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94: Michael Leiblein. Strategy offers serious insights on how to create structures that shape corporate investments
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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93: Arzi Abdi. Find solutions to long problems
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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92: Sharon Alvarez. Soul is what makes entrepreneurs successful.
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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91: Caroline Fry. Scientific knowledge doesn’t flow like water. It is exchanged by people who need support.
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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90: Isin Guler. Innovation has at least as much to do with transforming people as with technology
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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89: Kris Irwin. To understand success and failure, you need to understand the people involved.
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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88: Jeffrey York. What are we going to do with the stranded assets of oil & gas companies?
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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87: Nur Ahmed. Responsible AI, Regulatory Ambiguity, and Improving Lives
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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86: Sharique Hasan. Why Do We Miss So Many High-Potential Ideas and the People Who Produce Them?
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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85: Christina Lubinski. Entrepreneurship Takes a Village, So Let’s Stop Heroizing Start-Up CEOs
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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84: Michael Bikard. Eureka Moments and Credit for Ideas
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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83: Aseem Kaul. Reinventing Strategy
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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82: Lori Rosenkopf. Entrepreneurship is Leadership in Innovation
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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81: Wes Sine. We Have The Wills, Value, And Technology For An Energy Transition.
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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80: Nan Jia. AI May Shape Geopolitics
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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79: Damon Phillips. Prisoner Releases, Entrepreneurship, Jazz, Creativity, and a Sociologist Who Loves Talking with Economists
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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78: Ranjay Gulati. The Forest for the Trees on Courage
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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77: Rem Koning. AI Can Democratize Entrepreneurship
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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76: Phanish Puranam. Let’s Re-Humanize Organizations!
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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75: Florenta Teodoridis. Let ’s Use AI to Unleash Creativity
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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74: Aline Gatignon. Cross-Sector Partnership Solve Big Problems in Ways that Make Organizations of All Types Perform Better
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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73: Christine Nolder. Let 's Get Skeptical About The Skepticism of Financial Auditors
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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72: Lars Frederiksen. We Invented The Wreck of The Titanic When We Invented The Titanic. Let’s Not Do That With AI.
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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71: Sophie Bacq. Beware of the Dark Side of Social Entrepreneurship. What ’s the Bright Side? Elevating Shared Interests, Practices, Identities and Fates
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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70: Julian Birkinshaw. The Resurgence of Large Incumbent Firms Is Not Just Possible, It’s Widespread.
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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69: Beth Embry. The Capacity For Disaster Response Occurs Before The Disaster Occurs
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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68: Lamar Pierce. No More Whack-A-Mole. Managers Need To Think About Problems That Can Arise From The Incentives They Put In Place.
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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67: András Tilcsik. Great Companies Force A Reckoning On Unwanted Problems
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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66: Andrew Foley. Help Your People To Help You Succeed At Developing A Great Idea
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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65: Jillian Chown. Your Professional Peers Matter A Lot – Even More Than Your Organizational Mandate – To What You Do
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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64: Chris Eaglin. Human Ingenuity And Resilience Tip Toward Collaborative Community Even Under The Most Difficult of Circumstances
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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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.
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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62: Carlos Inoue. Rotations of Workers Across The Public And Private Sectors Can Unlock Value Creation
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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61: Leandro Nardi. Outstanding Companies Find Long Term Payoffs Through Excellence In Creating Value For Society
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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60: James Orbinski. Public Good Depends On Recognition of Each Others’ Innate Dignity
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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59: Jim Lavery. Cultivating A Deep Internal Acknowledgement of Others’ Interests Gives Us Our Best Chance at Solving Public Problems
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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58: Donal Crilly. There’s A Better Way To Negotiate Our Way Toward A Sustainable Future Than You May Think
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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57: Pinar Ozcan. Frontier Tech = Prosperity = Social Impact
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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56: Russ Coff. Actualization Through Work Rests On Much More Than What You Get Paid
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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55: John Bryson. Keep Talking
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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54: Jay Barney. What Does The Most Highly Cited Scholar In The Field of Strategy See As Important Right Now?
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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53: Matt Harder. Government Is Broken. Civic Trust Is The Fix.
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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52: Maurizio Zollo. Half Of All CSR Investments Aren ’ t Intended To Be Profitable
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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51: Mahka Moeen. The Emergence of an Industry Depends On Tech + Demand + Ecosystem + Institutions
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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50: Howard Aldrich. Entrepreneurship Is Usually Just One Chapter in a Rich Life
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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49: Stefan Dimitriadis. Entrepreneurship = Resilience + Pragmatic Pivoting in the Face of Extortion and Other Problems
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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48: Jiao Luo. Why is CSR So Unprofitable Despite The Best Efforts of Companies To Shape Public Policy To Support It?
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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47: Robert Eberhart. “Entrepreneurship ” Is An Ideology About How We Relate To Each Other That Rarely Delivers On What We Are Reaching For
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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46: Tim Weiss. African Entrepreneurship Occurs In Community, Not Through The Individual Acting Alone
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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45: Laura Doering. Repeated Interactions Between Microfinance Lenders And Borrowers Can Elevate Outcomes
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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44: Rob Nason. Entrepreneurship in Africa Demands More of Us Than We May Be Giving
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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43: Ilze Kivleniece. Sometimes The Best Way to Serve The Public Is Privately
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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42 : Eppa Rixey. How Redemption of a Degraded, Contaminated Piece of Commercial Property Can Lead To The Rebuilding of Community
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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41: Pushpika Vishwanathan. Stakeholder Power = Holding Managers True To Corporate Purpose
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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40: Gabriel Cavalli. AI Is Helping Scientists Understand The Nature of Life Itself
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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39: Arielle Newman. Reshaping Opportunities to Enhance Entrepreneurship Can Exclude Those Who Need It Most
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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38 : Chirantan Chatterjee. Democratizing Science is a Powerful Act of Social Justice
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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37: Jerry Davis. Let ’s Tame Corporate Power NOW
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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36: Leah Morris. Unleashing the Full Potential of AI Requires a Whole New Approach to Investing
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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35: Tarek Ghani. Humanitarian Aid is Much More Effective When Targeted Recipients Know in Advance That it’s Coming
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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34: Devin Stein. Your Community Can Achieve its Goals More Effectively by Working With State and Federal Authorities
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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33: Shon Hiatt. Let’s Have an Adult Conversation About Energy Security
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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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
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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31: Diana Jue-Rajasingh. Bringing High-Tech Products to Low-Income Communities Depends on Deep, Time-Consuming Engagement to Overcome Local Resistance
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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30: Mark Desjardine. We’re Being Unfair to Future Generations Without Sustainability
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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29: Andrew King. Our Understanding of Returns to ESG Investing Needs to be Interrogated
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May 28, 2025 |
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28: Catherine D'Amato. How a Large NGO Advocates for Small Partners
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May 25, 2025 |
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27: Brennan Lake. Use Your Company’s Assets for Good
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May 21, 2025 |
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26: Peter Klein. Across Sectors, Entrepreneurship = Collaboration + Trust
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May 19, 2025 |
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25: Kate Odziemkowska. Social-Change Advocates Can Help Companies Innovate
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May 15, 2025 |
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24: Myles Shaver. Change the World by Understanding Your Neighbors
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May 12, 2025 |
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23: Nicolai Foss. Let’s Find a Common Agenda on Climate and Other Social Challenges
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May 08, 2025 |
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22: Yiannis Ioannou. Making Space for Change in a System That Resists Disruption
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May 05, 2025 |
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21: Dan Cowen. Change Happens one Entrepreneur at a Time
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May 01, 2025 |
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20: Tima Bansal. The System Must Change
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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19: Rudy Durand. Move Social Impact from the Periphery to the Core of Your Company
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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18: Shirley Tang. The Paradoxes and Dilemmas of Transparency
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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17: Henri Hammond-Paul. Trust and Commitment in Public-Private Partnership
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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16: Daphne Baldassari. Mountains Beyond Mountains
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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15: Tunji Adegbesan. Small Companies can Drive the Social Impact of Big Companies
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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14: Raja Roy. Get Inspired by NASA
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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13: Jasjit Singh. Be Bigger Than Your Job
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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12: Thomaz Teodorovicz. Investing in the General Education of Some of the World’s Lowest-Income Workers
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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11: Dovev Lavie. Let’s Tap into Humanity’s Greatest Strength: Collaboration
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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10: Sergio Lazzarini. Listen to Your Community and Then Act Justly
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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9: Witold Henisz. The Power of Harnessing Ideals to Drive Change
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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8: Sarah Kaplan. Don’t Give up. Co-create. Innovate. Try Something!
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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7: Sandro Cabral. Companies Can Experiment Where Governments Can’t
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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6: Samina Karim. Individual Social Entrepreneurs Can Succeed Where Governments Can’t
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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5: Olga Hawn. Holding Companies Accountable Against Greenwashing
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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4: Kate Cummings. The Heavy Responsibility of Government Should be Taken More Seriously
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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3: Roger Martin. Get Strategic by Scaling Up Well-Tested Approaches
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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2: Leo Pongeluppe. Let’s Right Wrongs That are Readily Fixable – And Do it Now
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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1: Subi Rangan. Do Something! Do Anything! But Please Do it With a Clear Heart and Open Mind
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Feb 07, 2025 |