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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation

Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines. The task at hand goes beyond the academic concept of interdisciplinarity , which is often used as a semantic shortcut to signify broader collaborations across professional and social boundaries. In other cases, they are organizations, industries, professions, or cultures.

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Five Ways Business Schools Can Cultivate Better Leaders

Stanford Social Innovation

Many C-suite executives hold MBAs from these institutions, as do many investment bankers, financial services professionals, management consultants, tech workers, corporate managers, and marketers who have an outsized influence on how the private sector runs. Not surprisingly, elite business schools train many of our economic elites.