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.

Private Innovation in the Public Interest is a business podcast hosted by Anita McGahan, with 117 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Anita McGahan hosts Private Innovation in the Public Interest, a business show with 117 episodes published.

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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

  Aug 20, 202625 min

  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

  Aug 13, 202634 min

  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

  Aug 6, 202628 min

  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

  Jul 23, 202636 min

  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

  Jul 23, 202628 min

  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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