Agents of Change: From Idea to Impact
An open talk on entrepreneurship and strategic management
Georgina Campbell Flatter, Executive Director, The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT
Lecturer in Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
MIT Sloan School of Management
- Reykjavik Unversity, room M201
- Wednesday, October 11 at 12:00
Entrepreneurship is a powerful vehicle for driving social and economic progress. It's a market-driven platform for moving ideas to impact that can lead to the creation, implementation and scale of life-changing innovations while also driving job creation and local ecosystem development. Behind every enterprise is an entrepreneurial leader. Drawing on inspiration and research from MIT, Georgina will share a series of stories that highlight the important role entrepreneurs can play in driving social change; She will highlight the innovations and business models that have led to their successes; share the impact they have had across ecosystems, from Nairobi, Kenya to Monterrey, Mexico; the leadership traits that unite them; and what MIT is doing to help these change agents bring peace and prosperity to the world.
Georgina Campbell Flatter, MEng (Oxon) SM, is the Executive Director of the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT and Lecturer in Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
In her role as Director and Lecturer, she works to implement educational programming and curricula for MIT students who are building and scaling sustainable impact-ventures across the world. Flatter has been emerged in, and an active contributor to, MIT's innovation ecosystem for several years through her roles as Executive Director of MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (REAP), Director and Lecturer of the XPRIZE Lab @ MIT and, as a student, a researcher at the Langer Lab, and Managing Director of the MIT Clean Energy Prize. She has also led several innovation projects at the World Bank and worked as a research associate at a renewable fuels spinout from MIT.
Flatter earned an MEng in materials science from the University of Oxford and an SM in technology and policy from MIT.
