PRIVATE INNOVATION IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST

Empowering Business Leaders to Drive Meaningful Change

WHAT IS PI-SQUARED?

The Pi-Squared Initiative supports private-sector leaders at all levels in becoming smarter, better, and more effective in working with governments to solve public problems in cities, states, federal agencies, and international agencies.

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Nicolai Foss

Professor of Strategy at the Department of Strategy and Innovation at the Copenhagen Business School

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Free Workshop Series: Innovating in the Public Interest: Partnering for Public Good

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🎙️New Podcast Series: Private Innovation in the Public Interest with Anita McGahan

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Sustaining Excellence

By Anita McGahan

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Building Resources and Capabilities

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Excelling in Value Creation

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Engaging Stakeholders

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The Pi-Squared Framework

Pi-squared, which stands for Private Innovation in the Public Interest, rests on a framework for aligning the interests of leaders who want to improve lives in ways that are meaningful for everyone involved

The framework has five elements. The conversations featured here are grouped roughly to reflect these elements : Aspiration, Stakeholders, Excellence, Resources, Sustainability

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Tima Bansal

Professor of Sustainability and Strategy and Ivey Business School

Rudy Durand

Joly Family Purposeful Leadership Chair, HEC Paris

Dan Cowen

Senior Consultant, In Nova, and Build from Within Alliance

Shirley Tang

Assistant Professor of Management and Technology at Bocconi University

Yiannis Ioannou

Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School

Catherine D'Amato

Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Boston Food Bank

Peter Klein

W. W. Caruth Endowed Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business

Myles Shaver

Associate Dean of Faculty and Research at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management where he leads the Center for Integrative Leadership

Nicolai Foss

Professor of Strategy at the Department of Strategy and Innovation at the Copenhagen Business School

Kate Odziemkowska

Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto

Brennan Lake

Vice President of Social Impact & Enterprise Partnerships at Cuebiq

Roger Martin

Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management

Subi Rangan

The Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court Endowed Chair in Societal Progress at INSEAD

Leo Pongeluppe

Assistant Professor and Leonard J. Horwitz Faculty Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School

Kate Cummings

Partner and Equal Opportunity Ventures and a student at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School

Sandro Cabral

Professor of Strategy and Public Management at INSPER in Sao Paolo, Brazil

Samina Karim

Professor and Chair of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group at Northeastern University’s D'Amore-McKim School of Business

Olga Hawn

Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School

Sarah Kaplan

Distinguished Professor of Gender and the Economy and Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management

Dovev Lavie

Professor of Management at the Department of Management and Technology of Bocconi University

Sergio Lazzarini

Chafi Haddad Professor of Management at INSPER in Sao Paolo, Brazil

Thomaz Teodorovicz

Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategy and Innovation at the Copenhagen Business School

Witold J. Henisz

Vice Dean and Faculty Director of the ESG Initiative, and the Deloitte & Touche Professor of Management, at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School

Raja Roy

Professor at the MT School of Management at the New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tunji Adegbesan

Founder & CEO of Gidi Mobile

Jasjit Singh

Professor of Strategy and the Paul Dubrule Chaired Professor of Sustainable Development at INSEAD

Daphné Baldassari

Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business

Henri Hammond-Paul

Director, Community Health and Safety, City of Santa Fe