Think Bigger Innovations
About Think Bigger Innovations
"How can corporate innovation benefit society at large? What are the challenges and opportunities ahead?"
Large businesses and companies recognize and acknowledge the need to innovate, but often struggle with corporate entrepreneurship at scale. Think Bigger Innovations will address this issue, particularly around innovations with societal benefits.
Think Bigger Insights
Catalyzing the New York Deep Tech Ecosystem
New York City, the largest global economic hub, has diversified its economy post-Great Recession to include technology and innovation alongside its traditional finance, media, and fashion industries.
The Future of NYC Real Estate, A Think Bigger Innovations Workshop
New York City’s real estate market is at a transition point. Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city’s real estate market has seen significant shifts, including increased urban-to suburban migration (Gupta et al. 2022), residential rent and housing affordability issues, and reduced value and usage of urban office space due to the adoption of remote and hybrid work (Gupta, Mittal, and Van Nieuwerburgh 2023) and higher interest rates.
Reimagining the Future of New York City Real Estate
The rise of remote work, declining commercial property values, and the resulting decreased tax revenue demand bold solutions.
“Think Bigger: Discover the Universe” with Scott Willoughby
Scott P. Willoughby is the vice president and program manager for the James Webb Space Telescope program at Northrop Grumman, which is currently on contract for the design, development and delivery of the Observatory to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
The Future of ESG: Overhauling Our Approach to Saving the World
Our approach so far to ESG is ‘fundamentally flawed,’ argues veteran investor Terrence Keeley in a conversation with CBS Professor Shivaram Rajgopal.
The Future of Our Planet: Paving the Road to Net Zero
Jan Walstrom, senior vice president within the Global Climate Response and ESG office at engineering company Jacobs, shares her insights at the School’s inaugural Think Bigger Innovation Summit.
The Future of Supply Chains: Encouraging a Culture of Innovation
Nortech's Jay Miller encourages innovation as a means of not only creating greener products, but also more sustainable supply chains.
The Future of Decision-Making: An Orthotic for Your Brain
Research highlights the significant potential and promise of innovation within the field of neuroscience when combined with emerging technologies.
Innovation and Technology Summit Highlights
Partnership
In partnership with the New York chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors, Columbia Business School held an summit for the annual Think Bigger Innovation and Technology Summit: a one-day event for an invited audience of corporate board members and c-suite executives centered on exploring the greatest innovation challenges currently confronting large companies. See past details on the event.
Leadership
The summit was led by Professor Sheena S. Iyengar, award-winning author and one of the world's experts on choice and innovation, the Think Bigger initiative convenes high-level business leaders to illuminate the innovative solutions emerging within forward-thinking companies — and stimulate the creation of new ones. See past event details on the event.
Initiative Leadership
As part of this initiative, S.T. Lee Professor of Business Sheena Iyengar, in collaboration with Shiva Rajgopal, will run The Think Bigger Summit, an annual (or bi-annual) forum. Innovators across various industries will engage with global business executives, corporate board members, private equity leadership, and selected academics to showcase their innovations, discuss their setbacks and challenges, and highlight their routes to success. Each forum will showcase the different problems that business leaders encountered, which provided the challenge for societal innovation.
Sheena Iyengar
Sheena S. Iyengar is the inaugural S.T. Lee Professor of Business in the Management Division at Columbia Business School, and a world expert on choice and decision-making. Her book The Art of Choosing received the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year 2010 award, and was ranked #3 on the Amazon.com Best Business and Investing Books of 2010. Her research is regularly cited in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Economist as well as in popular books, such as Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink and Aziz Ansari’s Modern Romance.
Shivaram Rajgopal
Shiva Rajgopal is the Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has also been a faculty member at the Duke University, Emory University and the University of Washington. Professor Rajgopal’s research interests span financial reporting, earnings quality, fraud, executive compensation and corporate culture. His research is frequently cited in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist.
Ryan McManus
Ryan McManus is a technology entrepreneur, executive, investor, board director and advisor. He is the founder of techtonic.io where he advises Fortune 500 companies, governments, startups, and private equity investors on emerging technologies, digital transformation, business model strategy and generating speed within their organizations. Ryan is a member of the Board of Directors of Nortech Systems where he is the founding chair of the science & technology
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