CMA Centre Events

Upcoming CMA Centre Events:

Come for Breakfast with a Lift!

Date:

Friday, September 23, 2011

Registration & Breakfast:

7:30am

Presentation:

8:15am

Close:

9.30am

Location:

Segal Graduate School of Business
Simon Fraser University
500 Granville Street

Cost:

$75 | $50 for SFU Alumni | $50 for HRMA Members | $25 for CMA Members (plus HST)
Price includes contiental breakfast and a copy of 'Lift: Becoming a Positive Force in Any Situation', by Ryan Quinn and Robert Quinn.

RSVP:

Please register here.
Cancellation requested beforehand will receive a refund minus a $10 administrative fee.

Join us at the Beedie School of Business when our CMA Centre for Strategic Change hosts Ryan Quinn - Assistant Professor in Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, consultant to Fortune 500 companies and author of Lift: Becoming a Positive Force in any Situation.

No matter what roles a person plays in life - business manager, parent, friend, neighbor, and so forth - we all want to have a positive impact, but often, despite our best intentions, we're tripped up by subtle psychological states we're not even aware of. It doesn't have to be that way. This breakfast session will combine cutting-edge social science and real-world examples to describe four mindsets that help people become aware of the unconscious ways you're holding yourself and others back. This goes beyond merely wielding positive influence, with lift, by your very nature, you become a positive influence.

Ryan Quinn teaches and conducts research on change management, with specific interests in how conversations organize and re-organize our social world. He has studied how conversations influence, innovate, energize, enable collective performance, create learning, and create courage. He teaches in the full-time and executive MBA programs as well as in Executive Education. He has consulted for Fortune 500 companies, private firms, start-up businesses, non-profits, and government institutions, and is a principal at Lift Consulting. He is also involved in the Darden/Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education's Turnaround Specialist program and Wallace Foundation program, helping to train principals and other educators who are attempting to transform public schools in which students are not achieving academic standards.

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:

NEW! CMA Centre Research Hot Spots
In 2011 we are launching our Hot Spots series. This will provide an opportunity for local CMA and business community members to engage in lunch-time dialogues with CMA Centre Visiting Fellows. We piloted our first Research Hot Spot on April 29, 2011 with CMA Visiting Fellow, Dr. Steve Maguire, on the topic of precaution. For more information on the Hot Spots series or to suggest a topic please contact Stephanie or Tom.

Current CMA Centre Events:

Segal Seminar Series on Organizations, Strategy & Technology

Started in September 2007 these monthly seminars, led by resident scholars, provide a forum for presenting and developing research.

NEW! Discussing Research on Innovation and Society Lunch Group (DRISL)

A monthly, informal lunch-time research discussion intended to provide a forum for Beedie professors and doctoral students to discuss very early-stage research on innovation and research challenges.

Previous CMA Centre Events

A discursive perspective on substitution and deinstitutionalization: The case of DDT (April 28. 2011). In April, Professor Steve Maguire presented a case study on the rise and fall of the insectide DDT. This work drew on his findings published in two separate papers to explore the ideas of substitution and deinstitutionalization.

3rd Annual CMA Centre Social Innovation Student Case Competition (March 19, 2011). In this third student case competition on social innovation there were 9 teams and 36 student competitions. It was a student run competition with teams made up of undergraduate students from SFU Business and other Faculties. The judges came from the business and NGO communities. The Final Case was "QuestBridge" - a nonprofit program that links bright, motivated low-income students with educational and scholarship opportunities at some of the US' best colleges.

2nd Annual Beedie School of Business Innovation Conference (March 11, 2011). In this second annual conference on innovation Beedie professors and doctoral students met to share their research on innovation. This interdisciplinary conference covered a diverse range of topics such as "Business applications of tablets: iPads in content and context" and "Organizational tracks: Examining the role of momentum".

Social Innovation & Finance Open Event (January 17, 2011). The CMA Centre sponsored and hosted an event open to the public on the topic of social innovation and social finance. Over 200 attended. Speakers included Vickie Cammack (Tyze Personal Networks), Tim Draimin (SiG National), Stuart Yasgur (Ashoka Global) and David Green (Ashoka Fellow).

A change of pace: Institutional work in highly scrutinized environments (January 7, 2011). In January, Dr. Frances Bowen and Jessica Dillabough present their research on changes in environmental regulations and best practices in the Alberta oil sands industry.

International Conference on Institutions and Work (June 17-19, 2010). In this second international conference on institutional work, the aim is to revisit this concept by critically exploring new directions to develop (and problematize) it. In particular, the focus is on the relationship between institutions and work.

2nd Annual CMA Centre Social Innovation Student Case Competition (March 29, 2010). In this second student case competition on social innovation over 45 students competed and their presentations were judged by alumni and faculty members. One judge said, "The winning team knocked my socks off with their analysis and their presentation...I'd say that [the case competition] is a great way to engage the SFU community in thinking about social innovation".

1st Annual Innovation Conference (January 15, 2010). In January 2010, members of the faculty met to discuss their research on innovation. This interdisciplinary conference covered a diverse range of topics such as "iApps in u-space: Innovations for sustainability" and "Positivity and generativity in planned transformational change."

Social Innovation and Social Institutions Workshop. In September, 2009, practitioners and scholars from all round the world came to explore the interplay between social innovation and social institutions.

1st Annual CMA Centre Social Innovation Student Case Competition (May 30, 2009). In the first student case competition on social innovation teams of student worked on a case about Google.org - Google inc.'s philanthropic division.

Annual Research Dinner. In April 2008, Professor David Thomas presented on the topic of Managerial Competence in the 21st Century: Measuring cultural intelligence. [Presentation]

Managing for the long run: Lessons in competitive advantage from great family businesses. In November 2007, Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller provided a number of public, faculty, and doctoral seminars on their recently published book, Managing for the Long Run. Read our Outlook for Change post detailing some of their ideas.

International Workshop on Institutional Work. In May 2007, the CMA Centre brought together some of the foremost scholars in the field of institutional theory to develop the concept of "institutional work". The results of this workshop will soon be published. Details to follow!

Appreciative Inquiry: Creative Dynamic Destinies. In February 2007, the CMA Centre sponsored a workshop on Appreciative Inquiry run by the TCF Training Institute - a social enterprise of The Children's Foundation. Read our Outlook for Change post on the topic of Appreciative Inquiry.

Talk & Action: Getting Results from Inter-organizational collaboration. In August 2006, Professor Cynthia Hardy, University of Melbourne, ran workshops on inter-organizational collaboration. Read our Outlook for Change post on the topic of collaboration - Swimming with Sharks!

Linking Strategic Thinking & Acting: The need for context sensitivity. In August 2006, Professor Julia Balogun, City University London, presented her most recent research on what she termed the "Change Kaleidoscope". Read our Outlook for Change post for more details.