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Sylvia Grewatsch, Assistant Professor, Goodman School of Business, Brock University
“What are the different aspects of impact creation? How can we help our community members to achieve it? The Impact Scholar Community is...
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Marleen Wierenga
- May 27
- 4 min
Helen Etchanchu, Associate Professor, Montpellier Business School
“We say that either you do research or you do impact, or either you do rigor or you do relevance. But in practice, it is a continuum, and...
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Marleen Wierenga
- Apr 5
- 3 min
Camille Meyer, Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town
"How do we build a bridge between the poor and the rich? The formal and the informal? How do we not exacerbate this divide? At UCT, we...
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Suwen Chen
- Mar 9
- 3 min
Miron Avidan, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of St. Gallen
“Since academia is taking up a lot of my time, pursuing any kind of impact must go hand-in-hand with keeping my emotional well-being in...
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Marleen Wierenga
- Nov 10, 2021
- 5 min
Kim Ceulemans, Associate Professor, TBS Business School
“Impact can mean different things for different people. For me, impact is really about being somehow relevant for society and...
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Suwen Chen
- Sep 24, 2021
- 4 min
Milda Zilinskaite, Senior Scientist, Vienna University of Economics and Business
"To me, impact is at the core of our job and why we exist as academics. It should be just a natural part of our job. It is a...
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Marleen Wierenga
- Sep 3, 2021
- 4 min
Burcu Küçükkeles, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
“For me impact is more about a dual interaction between public and academia. I see it as a two-sided process, especially for qualitative...
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Suwen Chen
- Aug 12, 2021
- 4 min
Patrick Callery, Assistant Professor, Carleton University
“From a broader perspective, I consider impact as directly or indirectly contributing to the movement towards a more sustainable economy...
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Suwen Chen
- Jul 7, 2021
- 4 min
Ibrat Djabbarov, Doctoral Researcher, Cranfield School of Management
“For me, impact is about helping others. I’m just helping individuals and organizations to accomplish impact by doing things differently”...
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Marleen Wierenga
- Jun 3, 2021
- 4 min
Mark DesJardine, PennState, Assistant Professor
“I am just one person, no policy-maker really cares about me. When people start to be informed about what’s really going on in the world,...
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Marleen Wierenga
- May 10, 2021
- 4 min
Martina Linnenluecke, Macquarie University, Professor
“I have always been driven by the question ‘How can I leave the world around me better off?’, and that has been a big motivation for...
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Katrin Heucher
- Apr 23, 2021
- 2 min
An Impact Conversation With Judith Walls and Garima Sharma
On the occasion of the first anniversary of the Impact Scholar Community, we invited Judith Walls (University of St. Gallen) and...
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Suwen Chen
- Apr 15, 2021
- 3 min
Lianne Lefsrud, University of Alberta, Assistant Professor
"I work with different collaborators in these different areas, and it allows me to really leverage my specific expertise with regards to...
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Katrin Heucher
- Mar 25, 2021
- 5 min
Pilar Acosta, Universidad Icesi (Colombia), Assistant Professor
“Impact is about incrementally transforming the lives of the people: our students, the people on our campus, and the managers that we...
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Katrin Heucher
- Feb 3, 2021
- 4 min
Angela Greco, Ivey Business School, Postdoctoral Associate
“Recently, someone from the organization I conducted my PhD research at messaged me to say that thanks to my research they included...
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Marleen Wierenga
- Jan 8, 2021
- 4 min
Seray Ergene, University of Rhode Island, Assistant Professor
“Impact for me is changing the ecological and social conditions in communities, and bringing all of that experience and knowledge to the...
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Katrin Heucher
- Dec 16, 2020
- 3 min
Corinna Frey-Heger, Rotterdam School of Management, Assistant Professor
Impact as a Process “We need to stop ourselves from thinking about impact as the direct and measurable outcome and instead see it as a...
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Suwen Chen
- Dec 7, 2020
- 3 min
Augusto Rocha, University of St Andrews, Research and Development Fellow
"In my mind, we, as researchers, are not doing research to have an extra bunch of papers in the library or online. Instead, it is the...
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Marleen Wierenga
- Oct 22, 2020
- 4 min
Sara Lindeman, Aalto University, Postdoctoral Researcher
“Having impact requires genuine intention: The will to have an impact, being committed, and making the effort,” says Sara Lindeman. Sara...
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Katrin Heucher
- Oct 22, 2020
- 4 min
Amanda Williams, ETH Zürich, Senior Researcher
“As an academic, you can have an impact in different ways but for me, it is about combining academic research with making an impact”,...
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