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Private Innovation in the Public Interest

Anita McGahan
Artificial Intelligence
Human Capital
Strategy
Migration In Science
Non-Market Strategy
Renewable Energy
Public Policy
Corruption
Health Innovation In India
Innovation
Public Policy In Science
Entrepreneurship
Vaccine Industry In India
Political Alignment In India (center-State Relations)
Strategic Management/academia
Green Technology
Uncertainty
Trade Secrets
Transparency
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

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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Professor Felipe Csaszar of the University of Michigan is an eminent scholar with extensive publications on managerialcognition, organizational decision-making, and the ways in which AI is reshaping the process of strategizing. In this conversation, ... more

Professor Aparajita Agarwal of INSEAD was a successful executive in consulting and digital tech firm when she decided to step away from her top-flight career and enter into a PhD program in Strategy. Fast forward fifteen years, and her research now s... more

Professor Hyunjin Kim is at the frontier on understanding how organizations – and particularly entrepreneurial companies – build the capabilities to use AI to improve their performance. Her research demonstrates that, at this early stage, there’s a g... more

Professor Mabel Abraham has built her career around understanding how inequality in employment practices getsproduced by people who want to do the right thing but end up with biased outcomes. Mabel has studied how biasesemerge unintentionally through... more

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Recent Guests

Hyunjin Kim
Assistant Professor in the Strategy Area at INSEAD
INSEAD
Episode: 105: Hyunjin Kim. Sure, AI is widely available, but organizations vary a lot in their capabilities for using it
Mabel Abraham
Barbara and Meyer Feldberg Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School; faculty affiliate at Sanford C. Bernstein Company Center for Leadership and Ethics
Columbia Business School
Episode: 104: Mabel Abraham. Let’s talk about how inequality gets produced inadvertently by unbiased people
Chris Yenkey
Associate professor in the Sunoco International Business Department; core faculty member of the Rule of Law Collaborative
University of South Carolina
Episode: 103: Chris Yenkey. You cooperate as a driver in profoundly complex ways, yet if you sometimes speed, you’re engaging episodically in corruption.
Deepak Somaya
Diane and Stephen Miller Professor in Business Administration, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Episode: 102: Deepak Somaya. Tech firms get advantage by attracting and retaining committed people – both as employees and as customers
Colleen Cunningham
Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Eccles School of Business, University of Utah
University of Utah, Eccles School of Business
Episode: 101: Colleen Cunningham. Guardrails + Incentives - Excessive Competition = Innovation
Barry Finette
Professor of pediatrics and microbiology; founder/former CEO of ThinkMD
University of Vermont; ThinkMD
Episode: 99: Barry Finette. It's always just about the patient
DK Kryscynski
Professor of strategy at Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Episode: 98: DK Kryscynski. AI can take over drudgework and free you up to do more meaningful work
Bryan Stroube
Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky
Episode: 97: Bryan Stroube. Finding untapped potential in underserved corners of markets
Bukky Oyedeji
Assistant Professor at London Business School researching human capital, workplace design, and firm performance
London Business School
Episode: 96: Bukky Oyedeji. How ambience, spatial configuration and aesthetics unlock strategic human capital

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Anita McGahan
Host of Pi Squared / Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University

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5.0 out of 5 stars from 13 ratings
  • Anita is Absolute Best!!!

    I love Anita and her content. I can’t wait for the next episode to hear what she talks about next!!!

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    5
    Baf Bf
    United States3 months ago
  • Great!

    Love Anita!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    kWest 1228
    United States3 months ago

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93: Arzi Abdi. Find solutions to long problems
Q: Do you think firms are reliably pro-social, and what evidence supports your view?
He suggests that from an evidence perspective it is not clear that firms are reliably pro-social, though from aspirational or normative perspectives there is optimism; ongoing work aims to shed light on how organizational forms and incentives drive pro-social behavior.
93: Arzi Abdi. Find solutions to long problems
Q: What explains the difference in domestic vs foreign firm responses to health shocks in India, and how do politics play a role?
The guest argues that political alignment between center and state governments significantly influences firm responses; in misaligned states, domestic firms tended to perform better, while in aligned states, the difference was less pronounced, illustrating the non-market context's power.
93: Arzi Abdi. Find solutions to long problems
Q: Can you describe why you shifted from industry to academia and how that shaped your research focus?
He moved from executive roles to academia to explore long-horizon questions with more freedom, embracing the opportunity to ask different questions and collaborate with diverse co-authors, which he believes could have broader societal impact.
95: Christiane Bode. What employees want from firms may not be optimized social impact
Q: Am I characterizing that right about CSR strategies being instrumentally driven in India?
Christiane explains that both narrow and broad CSR strategies tend to be driven by immediate stakeholder considerations, yielding limited evidence of firms leveraging unique capabilities to amplify impact.
96: Bukky Oyedeji. How ambience, spatial configuration and aesthetics unlock strategic human capital
Q: Can you talk a little bit about the big issues that relate architecture to firm performance?
The three-dimension framework—aesthetics, spatial configuration, and ambience—helps explain how physical spaces influence individual motivation, collaboration, and community impact, and why managers should consider layout, design choices, and lighting as strategic resources for performance.

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The show focuses on corporate social responsibility, public-interest innovation, and cross-sector collaboration to drive societal impact. Conversations feature academics and practitioners exploring how businesses can act more effectively in the public good, through policy design, governance, and responsible innovation. Episodes often examine how organizational design, incentives, and non-market strategies shape outcomes for communities, with a mix of theory, empirical research, and real‑world case studies. Notable strengths include a rigorous academic lens paired with practical implications, and a clear emphasis on cross-sector partnerships and scalable, equitable solutions. Potential listeners who care about social impact, policy-informed ... more

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