{"110781":{"#nid":"110781","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IMPACT Presents: MIT Research Fellow Michael Schrage","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn \u003Cstrong\u003EWednesday, March 7, \u003C\/strong\u003EMIT\u0027s Michael Schrage will speak at IMPACT. In this talk he will share \u0022Why \u0027Good Ideas\u0027 are \u0027Bad Advice.\u0027\u0022 Drawing on his experience as a researcher, executive education lecturer, and corporate adviser, he will explore the behavioral pathologies of providing\ntechnical consulting to innovative organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the talk is to share painful - but\nuseful - economic insights into why \u0027good ideas\u0027 usually aren\u0027t and how serious\nconsultants can revisit both their clients\u0027 \u0027measures of effectiveness\u0027 and their\nown.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EPlease join us for this talk at\n4:30pm in the College of Management or watch the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.learnitlive.com\/class\/1839\/Michael-Schrage\u0022\u003Efree live webcast\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMore about the Speaker\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMichael Schrage is a research fellow\nwith the Sloan School of Management\u0027s Center for Digital Business and a\nvisiting fellow at Imperial College\u0027s \u0027Innovation and Entrepreneurship\u0027\nprogram. His work focuses on \u0027innovation risk management\u0027 - exploring the\neconomics and ethology of experimentation and simulation in managing innovation\nand risk. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHe is the author of several books\non the role of collaborative tools and technologies in enabling innovation -\n\u0027Shared Minds\u0027 and \u0027Serious Play\u0027. He\u0027s also been a contributor to the Harvard\nBusiness Review, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street\nJournal, CIO magazine and a variety of other publications on innovation,\ncyber-security and national security themes. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead full \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ile.gatech.edu\/files\/IMPACT%20Spring%202012\/Speaker_Bios\/Michael_Schrage.pdf\u0022\u003Ebio\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAbout the Impact Speaker Series\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESince 2002, the IMPACT Speaker Series has brought highly successful business\nleaders from a variety of industries to campus to share their experiences and\ngive advice to students and other entrepreneurs on topics ranging from\n\u0022building a venture around intellectual capital\u0022 to \u0022successful\nentrepreneurship in large organizations\u0022 and \u0022socially responsible\nleadership\u0022. The weekly series provides Georgia Tech students, alumni and\nthe Atlanta business community an opportunity to network and learn from\nsuccessful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and notable business and\nnon-profit leaders. Events for the series take place in the LeCraw Auditorium\nin the College of Management building at 4:30 pm on Wednesdays unless otherwise\nnoted. \u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe series is free and open to the public, and reservations are not\nrequired.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe IMPACT Speaker\nSeries is a weekly presentation sponsored by the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship.\u0026nbsp; In the next event of the series, Michael Schrage will present on\u003Cstrong\u003E March7 at 4:30 pm.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Michael Schrage, a research fellow in the MIT Sloan School and the Security Studies Program, will speak at IMPACT on March 7."}],"uid":"27336","created_gmt":"2012-02-20 15:27:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:57:40","author":"Dori Pap","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-03-07T15:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-03-07T16:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-03-07T16:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-03-07 20:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-03-07 21:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-03-07 21:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ile.gatech.edu\/","title":"Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship"},{"url":"http:\/\/ile.gatech.edu\/impact.html","title":"IMPACT Speaker Series"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.learnitlive.com\/class\/1839\/Michael-Schrage","title":"Webcast provided by Learn it Live"}],"groups":[{"id":"1274","name":"Scheller College of Business"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"24491","name":"behavioral economics"},{"id":"16401","name":"consulting"},{"id":"3472","name":"entrepreneurship"},{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"543","name":"National Security"},{"id":"24501","name":"organizational innovation"},{"id":"5570","name":"risk management"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDori Pap\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:dori.pap@ile.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edori.pap@ile.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}