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Private Innovation in the Public Interest

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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Episode 97: Finding untapped potential in underserved...

Private Innovation in the Public Interest ·

2026/03/26

Professor Bryan Stroube of the University of Kentucky has studied English, Engineering, and Management – all with a passion for understanding the human experience of interacting with products and services that are available through markets. In his discussion with Anita, he describeshow he has identified the ways that misfit album tracks, movie themes, and fine-art representations have evoked strong responses that demonstrate buyer interest in new types of expressive products. Bryan has also

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00:29:27

Episode 96: How ambience, spatial configuration and...

Private Innovation in the Public Interest ·

2026/03/19

Professor Bukky Oyedeji is a LEED-certified architect with extensive experience in designing physical workspaces in the UK, the US and Africa. As a Professor of Strategy, she focuses on the implications of physical space for unlocking our human potential as individuals, in teams, and in our communities that makes firms flourish in the unlocking of human creativity at all these levels – and that creativity depends on our experiences of physical space. On top of that, the “behavioural residue”

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00:28:31

Episode 95: What employees want from firms may not be...

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2026/03/12

Professor Christiane Bode studies how firms implement social-impact initiatives. In this far-reaching conversation with Anita, she emphasizes how the field turned from extreme positions – first that companies will not do CSR and then that companies will all do CSR – to a middle ground where the current emphasis is on employee motivation. In her own research, Christiane has found that there are often paradoxes and problems that arise when companies pursue social impact to satisfy employee

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00:30:18

Episode 94: Strategy offers serious insights on how...

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2026/03/05

Professor Michael Leiblein has studied a wide range of subjects over the course of his long and storied career. Mostrecently, he has examined how uncertainty about the future can lead companies to compete for effective climate technologies. Broadly, what will it take to structure incentives so that companies invest at scale toward addressing the world’s most pressing problems? Michael argues for a systemic, structural approach for overcoming the disruptive effects of sustainability initiatives

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Episode 93: Find solutions to long problems

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2026/02/26

Professor Arzi Adbi hails from the poorest province of India, Bihar, where he studied assiduously for exams so that he could become an engineer. After a storied career at Schlumberger, Goldman Sachs, and Loncar Industries, he decided to pursue his passion for long-term impact through a PhD at INSEAD, after which he became a professor at the National University of Singapore. Arzi’s research is on themany ways that companies respond to incentives that originate outside the market, such as during

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Episode 92: Soul is what makes entrepreneurs successful.

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2026/02/19

Professor Sharon Alvarez transformed the field of entrepreneurship through her early work on Jay Barney showing that entrepreneurship is about creating opportunities much more than about discovering them. It’s not as though Taylor Swift and Oprah and Jack Ma and Steve Jobs and Elon Musk saw something pre-determined sitting on the side of the road awaiting them. Rather, each had compelling insight grounded in a soulful understanding of what real people need that was so creative and important that

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Episode 91: Scientific knowledge doesn’t flow like...

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2026/02/12

Professor Caroline Fry studies how low-and middle-income countries build scientific capabilities, which occurs onescientist at a time. The successful migration of scientists from low-income countries can create significant benefits for the country from which the migration occurs, but only when institutions in the home environment are designed to make that happen. Without those institutions, migrant scientists often struggle both in the countries to which they move as well as in their

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00:24:51

Episode 90: Innovation has at least as much to do...

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2026/02/05

Professor Isin Guler is a renowned expert on the limitations of venture-capital investing for stimulating entrepreneurship. Among other problems, inventors from marginalized populations have trouble attracting attention, and yet even when they do, they are often misunderstood and passed by. Yet entrepreneurship can be profoundly important especially to owner-managers. Isin’s recent work with doctoral student Robert Hill on Texas prisons demonstrates the transformative potential of

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00:26:11

Episode 89: To understand success and failure, you...

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2026/01/29

Professor Kris Irwin had a fifteen-year career as a management consultant prior to earning her PhD at theUniversity of Alabama. In this inspired talk, she describes how the individual motivations, situations, and circumstances that shaped individual ambitions drive the outcomes of mergers, acquisitions, and new-firm formation. People cause projects to fail. She analyzes how leaders develop the resilience to persist and even to innovate in the face of uncertainty and complex bureaucratic

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Episode 88: What are we going to do with the stranded...

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2026/01/22

Professor Jeffrey York is the OG on environmental scholarship in the field of management. The titles of some of his most recent work suggest optimism about adaptation to the climate crisis: “How to Make Corporate Sustainability Work…” and “Climate Capitalism.” That optimism reflects his belief that the barriers to technology adoption are nottechnological. Rather, they are organizational, cultural, and political. A big obstacle is that the most profitable and entrenched industry in the world –

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Episode 87: Responsible AI, Regulatory Ambiguity, and...

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2026/01/15

Professor Nur Ahmed studies how frontier technologies like AI, geothermal energy, and quantum computing can improve lives. In AI, for example, a remarkably low number of firms have committed publicly to principles of responsibility, and yet their ambitions are to hire engineers who support principled AI. In geothermal, jurisdictions such as the U.S. states may sustain regulatory ambiguity to attract investment by startups in new energy generation technologies, but with an intention to support access

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Episode 86: Why Do We Miss So Many High-Potential...

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2026/01/08

Professor Sharique Hasan is fascinated by the gap between ideas with high potential and their fruition in practice. In this wide-ranging and clear-thinking conversation, he outlines the core ideas in several of his most recent research projects. First, he talks about why some scientific ideas get buried, and what it might take for them to become commercialized. And second, he describes how the market for talent is changing, and the implications of the aging of the workforce in some companies.

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Episode 85: Entrepreneurship Takes a Village, So...

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2026/01/01

Professor Christina Lubinski takes the long view as a historian of entrepreneurship. What she sees is shared achievement, and yet we tend to celebrate the roles of single individuals as iconic of success. It’s worthwhile to consider whether this is working well. Don’t we want less disruption, and some sense of stability? And shouldn’t we recognize the many individuals who contribute collectively to the creation of new organizations? Christina will get you thinking much more deeply about what

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Episode 84: Eureka Moments and Credit for Ideas

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2025/12/25

Professor Michael Bikard studies ideas: where they come from, who gets credit, whether they get traction, and how we can measure them. In this fascinating conversation, he takes a long view to describe how history credits innovators for their ideas despite their emergence among communities of scientists. Michael talks about the high-stakes competition between Darwin and Wallace as iconic of the ways innovators become known for their Eureka moments.

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Episode 83: Reinventing Strategy

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2025/12/18

Professor Aseem Kaul began his career by studying what we call “corporate strategy:” mergers and acquisitions, for example. No more. He is now convinced that companies are not equipped to solve truly important problems such as Grand Challenges because solutions require system change beyond their capacity. What we need now is to reinvent strategy to support community organizations, non-profits, and governments to become more discerning, efficient, and effective.

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Episode 82: Entrepreneurship is Leadership in Innovation

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2025/12/11

Professor Lori Rosenkopf, Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship at the Wharton School, has spent her career expanding how we understand innovation and entrepreneurial leadership. In her new book, Unstoppable Entrepreneurship, she explores pathways to innovation that go beyond the familiar story of disruption, highlighting intrapreneurs, tech commercializers, and alternative investors who are reshaping markets from within. Lori reflects on how entrepreneurship education is evolving in the age of AI, and how

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Episode 81: We Have The Wills, Value, And Technology...

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2025/12/04

Professor Wes Sine is optimistic, deeply, convincingly, contagiously optimistic. After decades of studying the global energy transition, he believes the moment has arrived: we now have the technology, the public support, and the shift in values needed to transform how the world generates and uses energy. The missing piece is political will. In this energizing conversation with Anita, Wes explains what it will take to move from possibility to action, drawing lessons from decades of research on

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Episode 80: AI May Shape Geopolitics

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2025/11/24

Professor Nan brings a rare combination of expertise in artificial intelligence, industrial policy, and creativity. A leading scholar of U.S.–China technology strategy, she studies how national choices about data, AI adoption, and innovation policy are already reshaping global industry and power. In this wide-ranging conversation, Nan and Anita explore how the pathways through which we unleash creativity through AI could redefine geopolitics—and influence how nations compete, cooperate, and create

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Episode 79: Prisoner Releases, Entrepreneurship,...

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2025/11/20

Professor Damon Phillips studies how society's structures, beauty, and contradictions shape business and creative expression. In conversation with Anita, he discusses how entrepreneurship can offer pathways to economic independence for formerly incarcerated citizens and how the business of jazz reveals deep, profound truths about markets, creativity, and community. Through re-entry, rhythm, and reinvention, Damon reflects on how businesses can remake the societies they serve.

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Episode 78: The Forest for the Trees on Courage

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2025/11/17

Professor Ranjay Gulati is a renowned scholar of organizational networks and strategic alliances who has recently turned his attention to courage, boldness, and purpose. His newest book, How to Be Bold, explores how individuals and organizations can act decisively in the face of fear and uncertainty. He argues that courage is a choice that can be cultivated by understanding how fear arises and how we respond to it. Whether in moments of crisis or opportunity, boldness allows us to emerge stronger

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