---
id: "pisquared:interview/ansari-shaz"
type: "Pi-Squared interview"
title: "Anita McGahan in conversation with Shaz Ansari"
url: "https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/ansari-shaz"
date: "2026-04-02"
people: ["Anita McGahan","Shaz Ansari"]
summary: "Shaz Ansari is Professor of Strategy and Innovation and Professorial Fellow of St Edmund’s College at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School. He..."
recording: "https://vimeo.com/1179624573"
source: "Pi-Squared (pisquared.theburnescenter.org), The Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Anita McGahan in conversation with Shaz Ansari

Shaz Ansari, Professor of Strategy and Innovation and Professorial Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge University’s Judge Business School · 2 April 2026

## About the guest

Shaz Ansari is Professor of Strategy and Innovation and Professorial Fellow of St Edmund’s College at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School. He earned both his Master’s and doctoral degree at Cambridge. Shaz’s research interests include social movements, technological and management innovations, platform ecosystems, new markets, social and environmental challenges, creation of commons, identity and reputation, institutional change, and the diffusion of practices. Recently he has published several papers on what he described as organizational “frames.” He is Head of the Strategy and International Business group at the Judge.

## Related resources

- [Shaz’s website at Cambridge](https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/people/shahzad-ansari/)
- [Google Scholar on Shaz](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wKhvu7wAAAAJ&hl=en)
- [Shaz’s paper on the shale gas debate](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01708406251357839)
- [Framing circularity](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024630125001049)
- [Shaz’s recent project on AI partnerships](https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMPROC.2025.171bp)

## Recording

Video: https://vimeo.com/1179624573

## Category

[Where Do We Go From Here?](https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/category/where-next)

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Original page: https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/ansari-shaz · Licence: none stated