Podcast from Green Templeton College recorded on Thursday 13th July 2012. With Dr Michael Maccoby, Associate Fellow of the Said Business School President of the Maccoby Group in Washington. Consensus is growing about why healthcare organisations need to change and what the solutions might be. However, these solutions bump up against walls of medical and organisational resistance. Using examples from the research and consulting of Dr Maccoby and his associates, he describes leaders who have been able to produce improved healthcare, controlled costs and better health for communities.

Professor Per Olof Berg, Head of Marketing Section, Stockholm University School of Business, gives the 2012 Richard Normann lecture for Green Templeton College. 'Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution' - Albert Einstein 1921 It is generally assumed that modern management is a rational knowledge-based activity following a set of logical actions to produce an outcome in the most efficient way. However, as indicated in the quote from Albert Einstein above, knowledge cannot replace imagination driven by intuition and inspiration when it comes to embracing the whole world, stimulating progress and giving birth to evolution. In his lecture professor Berg will show how imagination over the years has become increasingly important in order to understand business and manage organizations. The lecture will start by referring to Richard Normann's early work on the importance of business logics, and his later recognition of the existing of multiple logics, such as the service dominant logic in the eighties and the concept of innovative value constellations in the nineties. In all his work, Richard Normann emphasized the importance of imagination as a driving force behind business strategies. The second part of the lecture will examine the challenges businesses are facing today, and propose a complementary perspective based on the managerial efficacy of imagination. The consequences of this 'imagination perspective' for business and management will then be examined.

Podcast from Green Templeton College recorded on Thursday 7th June 2012. With Professor Alan Emery, GTC Honorary Fellow. The internationally renowned art critic John Berger in his book Ways of Seeing has written 'No other kind of relic or text from the past can offer such a direct testimony about the world which surrounded other people at other times'. In this lecture Professor Emery will attempt to show how the relationship between Doctor and Patient has changed over the centuries as illustrated in works of art - a process which continues today.

Green Templeton College Health Experiences Institute - Management in Medicine (HEXI-MiM) Lecture on 30th April 2012. Medicine needs moral leaders. Healthcare organisations cannot keep patients safe, supply good cost-effective care, or meet the core health needs of their communities, without moral leadership by healthcare professionals. But to date there has been rather little research into what moral leadership is and ought to be. The medical leadership bandwagon is rolling forward on the fragile foundation of the medical leadership competencies framework, while the medical ethics enterprise relies heavily on models of morality that treat the main task as making moral choices. In this presentation I shall argue (i) that medical leaders have, and need, a richer appreciation of the moral demands of their work than the competencies framework implies; (ii) that the pressing challenge is to implement effective moral action not just to make good choices; and (iii) that we need to turn our attention to understanding and developing the capacity for moral action. Along the way I shall describe the moral work that medical directors in NHS Trusts do, and invite the audience to test their own moral perceptions.

Professor Helen King (Professor of Classical Studies, The Open University) delivers the 2011 McGovern Lecture. The notion of a 'body of fluids' being replaced by a 'body of organs' is widespread in the history of Western medicine, and the female body is seen as more 'fluid' than the male body. Yet, despite such claims, recent work on the pre-modern period has focused on anatomy rather than physiology. In this lecture, Professor King examines contemporary assumptions about the history of the body and the role of physiology in past societies.

Professor Richard G Frank, Margaret T Morris Professor of Health Economics, Harvard Medical School gives a lecture on health policy in the US. The lecture addresses the political and budgetary constraints within which policy choices about the design of US health reform were and are being made. The lecture contrasts the way in which economic thinking and analysis is used in the US relative to that used in the European healthcare context, and presents some concrete examples from the debate and implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

Keynote address from the Human Welfare Conference at Green Templeton College. Dr Ann Hagell runs a Nuffield Foundation initiative on time trends in adolescent mental health and has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Adolescence since 2000.

Colin Baigent leads the CTSU's Vascular Overviews Group, which recently reported a meta-analysis of the findings among 170,000 participants in 26 randomised trials of cholesterol-lowering drugs in The Lancet.

Barbara Czarniawska, professor of Management Studies, University of Gothenburg, gives the 2011 Richard Normann lecture at Green Templeton College.

Professor Chris Husbands, Director of the Institute of Education, University of London, gives a talk examining how the policies and practice of the new Coalition government affect the schools system.