Social Innovation with Stanford PACS
Event Details
06:30PM - 08:30PM
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Are organizations overrating the value of innovation? Can social sector organizations make innovation more productive? What constitutes an organization's capability for continuous innovation? At the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS), Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair are engaged in research on how productive innovation can occur in social sector organizations, and why it often does not. They will touch upon how new ideas are generated or accessed, how they are evaluated and how they are experimented with, adopted and finally formalized as new products or services. Real-world examples will draw from the researchers' unique decade-long relationships with leading social sector organizations such as India's Aravind Eye Care Hospital; BRAC, a developmental NGO in Bangladesh; and Waste Concern, a recycling business Enterprise in Bangladesh.
Mair, a visiting scholar at Stanford PACS, is a professor of management, organization and leadership at Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Her research partner, Christian Seelos, is a Stanford PACS visiting scholar and an Oxford Social Innovation Fellow. This event is sponsored by Stanford New York Alumni and Stanford PACS.
