Organizing for Good: Innovation within the UN Organizations

23 September 2021 | 13:30-15:00 | Online

GSEM Prof. Tina Ambos will be leading a webinar featuring an academia-practitioner dialogue on the topic of Innovation in United Nations Organizations.

To address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN Organizations are facing multiple pressures to embrace innovation and transform rapidly. This presents unprecedented challenges to these organizations.

The session will first present academics, who will frame the debate by presenting their research results around the challenges and tensions of organizing innovation in different contexts. This will be followed by practicing managers, who will share how they organize innovation in their purpose-driven organizations and what parallels can be drawn to different sectors. The practitioners will address questions around the major challenges of “organizing innovation,” organizational solutions that have been successfully implemented, and innovation priorities for the future.

Speakers:

• Tina Ambos, Geneva School of Economics and Management
• Julian Birkinshaw, London Business School
• Nic Holden, United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• Corinne Momal-Vanian, Kofi Annan Foundation
• Markus Nordberg, CERN IdeaSquare
• Katherine Tatarinov, Geneva School of Economics and Management

The event is open to all and will be held in English.
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This webinar is part of the “Organizing For Good” campaign from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Organizational Design Community (ODC). The year-long initiative aims to highlight, curate, and stimulate research and practice in organization design thinking, and how it can help achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.