Reimagine is a new and original podcast series from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School, presented by Peter Drobac. In this series we meet the visionaries, the disruptors, the world’s problem-solvers, who are taking up the challenge of fixing the bits of our world that are broken. The people who see things differently, and we need them now more than ever.
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“We grew up in a Tetris world of trust. There were rules, top-down enforcement and we looked up to people that we trust. Our kids are growing up in a Minecraft world of trust that is completely distributed.” In this special series we’ve been exploring how we might move from crisis to transformation in an age of pandemics. We’ve been challenged to r…
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Social Reset: A New Equity Lens with Baljeet Sandhu “If we don’t think about the knowledge that is present in all our communities we will continue to privilege the few as knowledge producers and see them as having a larger stake in how we design the future.” In this series we’re meeting people who are shaking up the status quo, people who remind us…
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Economic Reset: With Halla Tómasdóttir “The pandemic pause has given us an awakening. Capitalism needs an upgrade. We need an inclusive economy that drives shared prosperity on a healthy planet.” We’re continuing our look at the big existential crises of this new decade, and what it will take to reimagine and reset our broken systems. In this episo…
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In episode 3 Peter Drobac reimagines what our future could be like if we reset how we live with global climate action leader Christiana Figueres. “Here we are stuck in the norm, without any reason to be stuck.” Reimagine is a podcast about people who are inventing the future. And in this episode we’re talking climate change – what’s at stake, the c…
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Health Reset: With Joia Mukherjee and Paul Farmer “There is no contrast between fighting against Covid and fighting for black lives” In Reimagine Series 2: Systems Reset, we’re seizing this moment to reimagine systems that are fit for purpose, and fit for everyone. In episode 2, Peter talks to global health activist Dr Joia Mukherjee about reimagin…
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“Our actions in the next decade will determine the future of civilisation.” (Indy Johar, Dark Matter Labs) The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown our world into disarray. Far more than a public health crisis, the pandemic has triggered an economic crisis, a social crisis, and a governance crisis. It has contributed to a long overdue reckoning on deeply r…
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Reimagine is a podcast about people who are inventing the future from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School, presented by Peter Drobac. Covid-19 has exposed the deep flaws in our relationship with the world and each other. We all long for a return to normality, but is “back to normal” really what w…
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What Is Social Entrepreneurship? With Sally Osberg
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If you’ve been tuning in to series 1 and want to know more about social entrepreneurship, or you’d just like to spend some time in the company of an extremely cool woman with a voracious intellect and a lot of wisdom about how change happens, then this bonus episode is just for you. For two decades Sally Osberg has played an outsized role in growin…
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The Sustainability Revolution With Al Gore
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“We are in the early stages of a sustainability revolution. It will have the magnitude of the industrial revolution yet the speed of the digital revolution” In this special episode Nobel Peace Prize winner, former US vice president and one of the world’s leading climate activists shares his vision for a sustainable future – Al Gore. Reflecting in t…
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“I’m here to prevent the next generation of Big Issue vendors.” Homelessness is an example of a wicked problem – a complex, messy problem with many causes, contradictory forces, and no easy solution. Wicked problems are rooted in broken systems. It’s estimated that 2% of the world’s population are homeless. But many more – perhaps 1 in 5 people wor…
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“Illness is universal. Access to healthcare is not. That shouldn’t be true in the 21stcentury” In this episode we focus on health equity. Every single day people are dying of entirely preventable, treatable diseases simply because they are poor, or because they live too far from medical care. Children die from diarrhoea, pneumonia and malnutrition.…
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EPISODE 4: Beyond Greenwashing: The Business of Climate Action with Paul Polman and Cameron Hepburn More and more CEOs are sounding all the right notes on the climate crisis. But is big business really ready to be part of the solution? Peter talks to Paul Polman, who became an iconic CEO by putting sustainability at the centre of Unilever’s busines…
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Higher Ground: Reimagining Higher Education
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EPISODE 3: Higher Ground: Reimagining Higher Education “Talent is distributed evenly around the world. What is not is opportunity.” Around the world universities have closed their physical doors and temporarily moved online due to Covid-19. That creates all kinds of challenges. But it’s also a chance for us to re-examine the very idea of a universi…
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As the world slips into recession, possibly even depression, Covid-19 has revealed the design flaws in our global economy. For decades, the conventional wisdom has been that there’s no problem the invisible hand of the market can’t fix. And while a relentless pursuit of growth at all costs has delivered prosperity for some, the gulf between the hav…
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Covid-19: the long view with Dr. Paul Farmer
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“Shame on us if we cannot seize this moment to make some desperately needed improvements in our health systems.” For years, many in global health have been saying that “the big one” - a pandemic disease - was a matter of when, not if. And this is the big one. So we ripped up our schedule to start the new series of Reimagine with a special emergency…
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Welcome to a new and original podcast series from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School, presented by Peter Drobac. In this series we meet the visionaries, the disruptors, the world’s problem-solvers, who are taking up the challenge of fixing the bits of our world that are broken. The people who se…
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