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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.
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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? (opens the original)
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Professor Michelle Rogan is a pioneer in research on social networks, social impact, and innovation. In a highly cited paper, she and her co-authors report that companies may more readily retain employees by offering them social-impact project opportunities. Yet her most recent work with the same collaborators shows that employers may see men who take on social-impact projects as a poor fit for promotion. In this insightful conversation, Michelle reflects with Anita on how social-impact projects
120: Michael Pirson. How can business and tech get support human dignity and flourishing. (opens the original)
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Professor Michael Pirson is interested in elevating our sights toward a humanism in management that focuses on enactingancient wisdom in our work with each other. Why don’t we elevate the intrinsic value of what we create through oursocial systems, communities, services, exchange, and connection with each other. Let’s tell better stories andcultivate authentic conversations. Let’s get out of our doom loops and get past limiting our liabilities and stop focusing on domination and exploitation in
119: Valentina Assenova. Silicon Valley can learn from the rest of the world about human actualization (opens the original)
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ProfessorValentina Assenova studies entrepreneurship at two levels. First, she looks at what incubators and accelerators do to support aspiring leaders – all the way from Soweto in South Africa to Silicon Valley. In this line of work, what she finds isthat developing human potential through exposure to business practices and through the cultivation of funding relationships can make a big difference to startup success across the board, although the nature of that development must reflect the need
118: Zeke Hernandez. Immigration is good for economic prosperity – but it can take two or three generations to come fully to fruition (opens the original)
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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 U
117: Vikram Bhargava. New technologies like AI that change how we relate to each other also change our ethics (opens the original)
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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 quest
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