Social Impact Design for Business

In this episode of Social Impact Design for Business, Jerry Davis of Michigan Ross' +Impact Studio interviews Bama Athreya, Deputy Assistant Administrator with the Bureau for Development, Democracy and Innovation at USAID.  Ms. Athreya discusses how the Global South has technologically leapfrogged past the expected little steps toward automation and straight to a gig economy where AI tracks employees, for good or for bad.

In this episode of Social Impact Design for Business, Jerry Davis of Michigan Ross' +Impact Studio interviews Bama Athreya, Deputy Assistant Administrator with the Bureau for Development, Democracy and Innovation at USAID.  Ms. Athreya discusses how the Global South has technologically leapfrogged past the expected little steps toward automation and straight to a gig economy where AI tracks employees, for good or for bad.

In this episode of Social Impact Design for Business, Jerry Davis of Michigan Ross' +Impact Studio interviews Jagadeesh Sivadasan, Professor of Business Economics at Michigan Ross. Mr Sivadasan shares insights into changes labor markets where remote work and monopsony are radically changing the landscape.  As remote work opens up, competition for jobs can increase in certain industries.

In this episode of Social Impact Design for Business, Jerry Davis of Michigan Ross' +Impact Studio interviews Jagadeesh Sivadasan, Professor of Business Economics at Michigan Ross. Mr Sivadasan shares insights into changes labor markets where remote work and monopsony are radically changing the landscape.  As remote work opens up, competition for jobs can increase in certain industries.

In this episode of Social Impact Design for Business, Jerry Davis of Michigan Ross' +Impact Studio interviews Andrew Wu, Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations and Finance and Faculty Co-Director of the FinTech Center at Michigan Ross. Mr Wu shares insights into radical changes in capital funding models, where apps are entering the field and nearly cutting out banks entirely. These new small business loans tend to be cheaper and more efficient than ever before.

In this episode of Social Impact Design for Business, Jerry Davis of Michigan Ross' +Impact Studio interviews Andrew Wu, Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations and Finance and Faculty Co-Director of the FinTech Center at Michigan Ross. Mr Wu shares insights into radical changes in capital funding models, where apps are entering the field and nearly cutting out banks entirely. These new small business loans tend to be cheaper and more efficient than ever before.

In this episode of Social Impact Design for Business, Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks of Michigan Ross' +Impact Studio interviews Jenn Holk, Strategy Manager at the Monitor Institute at Deloitte and Apoorva Kanneganti (MBA ’19), Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting.--both working with social impact-focused organizations. In order to help social sector leaders confront the COVID-19 challenge, the Monitor Institute by Deloitte developed a report with tools for planning in these uncertain times.

In this episode of Social Impact Design for Business, Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks of Michigan Ross' +Impact Studio interviews Jenn Holk, Strategy Manager at the Monitor Institute at Deloitte and Apoorva Kanneganti (MBA ’19), Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting.--both working with social impact-focused organizations. In order to help social sector leaders confront the COVID-19 challenge, the Monitor Institute by Deloitte developed a report with tools for planning in these uncertain times.

In this episode of Social Impact Design for Business, Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks of Michigan Ross' +Impact Studio interviews Eric Schwartz, Co-Founder, and Ian Robinson, Managing Director of BlueConduit, an analytics startup that uses predictive modeling to find lead pipes. While working with the +Impact Studio, they discovered the perfect balance of data extraction techniques and sensitive learning from the community to build trust in their work.

In this episode of Social Impact Design for Business, Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks of Michigan Ross' +Impact Studio interviews Eric Schwartz, Co-Founder, and Ian Robinson, Managing Director of BlueConduit, an analytics startup that uses predictive modeling to find lead pipes. While working with the +Impact Studio, they discovered the perfect balance of data extraction techniques and sensitive learning from the community to build trust in their work.