Private Innovation in the Public Interest – Details, episodes & analysis

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Private Innovation in the Public Interest

Anita McGahan

Business

Frequency: 1 episode/5d. Total Eps: 118

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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🇫🇷 France - Management
25/08/2026
#90
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18/06/2026
#99
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23/04/2026
#85
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21/04/2026
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20/04/2026
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19/04/2026
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19/04/2026
#80
🇺🇸 USA - Management
18/04/2026
#96
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17/04/2026
#79
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09/04/2026
#73

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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

Thursday, August 20, 2026 • Duration 24:59

Professor Zeke Hernandez was born in Uruguay and then lived in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Argentina before returning to his home country, only to immigrate again – this time to the United States. Now a Professor at Wharton, heis an internationally renowned expert on the economic impact of immigration. His award-winning 2024 book pulls together a lifetime of experience and scholarly study showing thatimmigration creates extraordinary benefits for receiving countries, the largest of which is the United States. Many ofthe benefits are immediate, but the biggest impact unfolds over a few generations. Concerned about braindrain, diaspora, social adjustment, and job loss? Listen to this conversation and your worries will be assuaged.

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117: Vikram Bhargava. New technologies like AI that change how we relate to each other also change our ethics

Thursday, August 13, 2026 • Duration 34:29

Professor Vikram Bhargava studies business ethics and technology. His groundbreaking work on technology addiction, hiring algorithms, autonomous vehicles, social media, and AI has changed the way we think about ourresponsibilities to each other and to ourselves. In this wide-ranging conversation with Anita, Vik describes some of the paradoxes and challenges that we face as technology advances to eliminate previously acceptable risks; to expose gaps in old beliefs; and to raise entirely new questions about justice and the legitimacy of social outrage.

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116: Sekou Bermiss. Political ideology and diversity influence firm performance in unexpected and subtle ways

Thursday, August 6, 2026 • Duration 27:41

Professor Sekou Bermiss studies how “strategic human capital” gets deployed in organizations through socialinteractions that have consequences for the organization’s performance. This means that, if you look at skilledworkers with roughly the same capabilities, what may matter most to their impact on organizational outcomes is the ways in which ideology and diversity shape the social interactions through which those skills are deployed. If you don’t agree politically, or if there is diversity in identity, then you may get outcomes that are surprisingly different across two equally skilled people.

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115: Christos Pitelis. Entrepreneurship in the “praxis” is our chance for global sustainable value creation

Thursday, July 30, 2026 • Duration 36:19

Professor Christos Pitelis of the University of Southampton and the University of Cambridge is a legendary theorist who,among other things, is the literary executor of the estate of Edith Penrose. In this talk, he describes the long arc of his interests in how political economy – in the sense of Schumpeterian innovation – drives global sustainable value creation. He talks with Anita about what truly constitutes the public good and how are systems need to support the alignment among stakeholders of private returns toward the achievement of public value. One implication: governments and corporations co-create value in complicated ways that we can understand better.

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114: Wesley Koo. Platforms can be confusing and scary

Thursday, July 23, 2026 • Duration 27:40

Professor Wesley Koo of Johns Hopkins started his career as an engineer and tech entrepreneur interested in how platforms shape environmental outcomes. Since studying at Stanford, he turned to the impact of platforms on rural retailers and on vulnerable domestic workers. In this fascinating conversation, Wes and Anita talk about the instability that ranking algorithms create for rural vendors in China who do not have the knowledge or networks to respond effectively. Sadly, Wes has also found that domestic workers will de-register themselves from platforms for rating their employers. Despite the problems, Wes is truly optimistic that tech platforms can improve lives. Please listen to learn why.

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113: Audra Wormald. How David overshadowed Goliath to create a new way of banking in low-income settings

Thursday, July 16, 2026 • Duration 24:35

Professor Audra Wormald of the University of North Carolina’s Keenan-Flagler Business School left a promising career in intellectual-property analysis and consulting to study innovation in the business of banking. She wrote her PhD thesis on the ways in which local companies in developing markets were more effective than multinational banks in serving low-income customers, particularly in Tanzania. In this conversation with Anita, Audra discusses how entrepreneurs in low-income settings respond with resilience and insight to the opportunities before them. This is about more than only economics. It’s about the psychological benefits to the entrepreneur of self-efficacy.A

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112: Rachelle Sampson. How can executives overcome short-term pressures to invest for the long term?

Thursday, July 9, 2026 • Duration 28:18

Professor Rachelle Sampson has long studied the challenges that executives face to increase short-term earnings by cutting investments with longer-term investments. After decades of research on technology adoption, alliances, corporate social responsibility, and ESG investing, Rachelle is now thinking as well about the effects of personal consciousness-raising on executive decision-making. In this thoughtful conversation, she draws a straight line between short-term pressures, survival instincts, investment incentives, and the conscious ways in which executives can escape their fight-or-flight instincts to make better decisions for the long run.

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111: Shaz Ansari. Don’t surrender your cognition to AI

Thursday, July 2, 2026 • Duration 23:35

Professor Shaz Ansari of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University is renowned for his work on institutional logics, cultural frames, and the effects of ArtificialIntelligence on how we think about what’s important. In this conversation with Anita, he explains how the logics that reflect our identities both shape and are shaped by newframes. Shaz ties everything together by describing how AI challenges us by resting on historical understandingsrather than new ways of thinking. It’s never been more important to avoid cognitive surrender. Think critically!

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110: Brent Goldfarb. Great scientists think big, think long-term, and have integrity

Thursday, June 25, 2026 • Duration 30:06

Professor Brent Goldfarb studies big ideas, arguing that short-term investor pressures can cause firms to innovate less than they might otherwise. Brent also studies how well-intentioned corporate innovators may pull the plug on their work once they achieve results that are good enough to pass muster – even when breakthroughs are just around the corner. With training in both economics and computerscience, he brings a long view – an historian’s sensibility – to trajectories of scientific commercialization through corporate action. Despite all the challenges, Brent remains excited and optimistic that science can deliver the insights we need forprosperity in the face of AI.

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109: Adam Clark. Authentic organizational commitment is a long game with a big payoff

Thursday, June 18, 2026 • Duration 28:07

Professor Adam Clark of Chapman University is studying something that is notoriously difficult to assess: the authenticity of an organization’s commitment. In this powerful conversation, he talks with Anita about whether and how an organization’s authenticity may evolve over time. Thestakes are high, with firm survival turning on getting authenticity right.

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