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Social innovation is usually evaluated on short-term impact, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Research by Helen Haugh of Cambridge Judge Business School takes a longer-term perspective, focusing on 3 key approaches to how social innovation can have true transformational effect to help address society’s grand challenges.

Some lethality is intentional, such as overwhelming military force, yet there are other types of lethality. In this piece Neil Stott, Management Practice Professor of Social Innovation and Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School, argues that organisational lethality – the capability and capacity to kill – is increasingly pervasive. He says there is an imperative to treat organisational lethality not as a regretful by-product of organising but as a moral failure requiring urgent collective action.

Strategic AI linkups between tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft and smaller firms drive innovation and growth, but should address power imbalances, data control and ethical challenges, says research from Cambridge Judge Business School and the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing.