The guest for this episode is Thomas Lawrence, a Professor of Business at The University of Oxford.  We talk about how organizations can impact the most important issues that we face in society today (read: Grand Challenges) We discuss one of Tom’s recently published papers in AMJ, which investigates how organizations import ”bad”  practices in attempts to solve an important social problem, drug addiction.  The results are intriguing and also speak to the broader theme of how controversial practices are transformed across different contexts.  Tom also shares his observations about global and local trends in Social Innovation, and we speculate about the connection between his research and one of the greatest television shows in US history.