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" With the customary apologies for cross-posting "

Dear Colleagues

We cordially invite you to the All Academy Symposium on

"Innovation in the 21^st century- What the West can learn from the East?"

Date: Sunday, August 14 ·

Time:11:30am - 1:00pm

Location: San Antonio Convention Center, Room 006 D; San Antonio, TX

Participants:

Falguni Sen, PhD

Director, Global Health Care Center;

Professor of Business Administration, Fordham University

Tina Dacin, PhD

Professor & E. Marie Shantz Professor of Strategy & Organizational Behaviour and Director, Queen's School of Business Centre for Responsible Leadership

Anil Gupta, PhD

Professor of Management, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Coordinator, SRISTI  and Founder Honey Bee Network

Executive Vice Chair, National Innovation Foundation

Alnoor Ebrahim, PhD

Associate Professor, General Management Unit and Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard Business School

Facilitator: Michael Pirson, PhD

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business, Fordham University

Abstract

Capitalism is at a crossroads and innovation is central to meeting the challenges for the 21^st century. In this session we wish to explore how Western management could possibly learn from Eastern practices to innovation. We focus on innovation on the product and service level, the business model and organizational level as well as the national and system-level approaches to innovation.

Product and Service level innovation

Falguni Sen will provide insights from his research with Western Health Care companies and their attempts to learn from the "East" with regard to product innovation. He will focus on the role of  "Eastern" thought patterns that allow certain types of innovation to occur readily in places such as India and China.

Business Model and Organizational Innovation

Tina Dacin will elaborate on her perspective of social innovation and business model development occurring in the "East" (e.g. social enterprise).  She will discuss the portability of such business model innovation and specify the critical factors for 'learning from the East'.

National and System-level innovation

Anil Gupta will share how India is restructuring its approach to innovating, which the West might be able to learn from.  As the founder of the Honey Bee Network and in his advisory role to the Indian Government he will present examples of bottom-up innovation for environmental, social and commercial ends.

Alnoor Ebrahim will kick off our discussion on how the West can indeed learn from the East with regard to innovation.

For all those interested in these topics there is a further session of the Humanistic Management Network (with Anil Gupta): Humanistic Management Caucus

Date: Tuesday, August 16

Time: 11:30am – 1:00 pm

Location: Hilton Palacio del Rio, La Vista North & Center, San Antonio, TX

Looking forward to seeing you in San Antonio!

Michael

Michael Pirson, PhD

Assistant Professor, Fordham Schools of Business

Partner, Humanistic Management Network

Director, Humanistic Management Institute (in foundation)