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id: "pisquared:category/sustainability"
type: "Pi-Squared category"
title: "Sustainability"
url: "https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/category/sustainability"
summary: "How can an organization sustain an initiative financially over time? What makes an initiative fresh and compelling even as it ages and matures? These and..."
source: "Pi-Squared (pisquared.theburnescenter.org), The Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Sustainability

How can an organization sustain an initiative financially over time? What makes an initiative fresh and compelling even as it ages and matures? These and other questions about the sustainability of excellence in a shared initiative are foundational to its success. Threats to sustained excellence can arise from an almost limited number of places. Key personnel may move on, for example: competition may arise for attention, resources, and excitement. A project may encounter unexpected resistance even as it succeeds. Achieving a scale sufficient to attract funding may be difficult.

The Pi2 project deals specifically with these problems and their implications for the leadership of important public-private initiatives. The feedback loop between sustained investment and the achievement of impact is our particular focus in this area of the project.

## Conversations for Sustainability

- [Anita McGahan in conversation with Sophie Bacq](https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/bacq-sophie): Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and Coca-Cola Foundation Chair in Sustainable Development, IMD
- [Anita McGahan in conversation with Daphné Baldassari](https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/daphne-baldassari): Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business
- [Anita McGahan in conversation with Chris Eaglin](https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/eaglin-chris): Assistant Professor of Strategy, Duke University
- [Anita McGahan in conversation with Tarek Ghani](https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/tarek-ghani): Assistant Professor of Strategy, Washington University in St. Louis
- [Anita McGahan in conversation with Henri Hammond-Paul](https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/henri-hammond-paul): Director, Community Health and Safety, City of Santa Fe
- [Anita McGahan in conversation with Leandro Nardi](https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/nardi-leandro): Assistant Professor of Strategy and Business Policy, HEC Paris
- [Anita McGahan in conversation with Shirley Tang](https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/shirley-tang): Assistant Professor of Management and Technology at Bocconi University
- [Anita McGahan in conversation with Keyvan Vakili](https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/vakili-keyvan): Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School

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