Columbia Bizcast
Hear what drives the innovators, leaders, and thinkers of Columbia Business School in this podcast hosted by Fahad Ahmed ’17.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 82
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Fostering Entrepreneurship and Innovation at CBS
Director of the Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School Lara Hejtmanek ’99 discusses how the School supports students and alumni in their entrepreneurial journeys: from sta…
How Can Leaders Use Data to Make Better Decisions?
Listen to a fascinating discussion between Columbia Business School Professors Oded Netzer, Christopher Frank and Paul Magnone as they delve into the ideas and practical applications detailed in thei…
Investing in the Era of Climate Change: A conversation with Professor Bruce Usher
Columbia Business School’s Bruce Usher discusses his new book, which outlines the risks and opportunities for investors from climate change, and how current students and alumni are addressing major e…
Welcome to Manhattanville – A conversation with Dean Costis Maglaras
Welcome to the first episode of a special season of Columbia Bizcast dedicated to Columbia Business School’s new home in Manhattanville!
In this episode, we’ll take a private tour of the Manhattanvil…
Mission, Purpose, and Moon-Shooting with Vasiliki Petrou, Group CEO of Unilever Prestige
Vasiliki Petrou founded and now leads the Unilever Prestige division; this last year has offered that division invaluable knowledge and expertise. In this week’s episode, she reviews some of what she…
Impact Investing and the Future of Flexible Capital
Like every other industry, the field of impact investing underwent significant change over the last year. This episode investigates some of the new possibilities that this change has opened. Maggie L…
Turnaround: A Tale of Two Pandemic Case Studies
What happened? What went wrong? Those are simple questions to ask when a company experiences difficulty. In Professor Kathryn Harrigan’s Turnaround Management class, students examine case studies to …
What Kind of Entrepreneur Are You?
We start our new season of Bizcast with a conversation about the challenges of entrepreneurship.
Class of 2021 members Pritika Gupta, Gareth Pembroke, and Samuel Hong are co-presidents of the Columbi…
Inspiring and Exhausting: Reporting on Political Campaigns
What is it like for a journalist to cover the final days of a political campaign, right before an election? Bizcast visits with two MBA students who have had this experience first-hand.
Alexis Levins…
The Intersection of Business, Politics, and Society: A Conversation with Valerie Jarrett
On this special episode of Bizcast, we’re presenting a conversation between Bernstein Center Faculty Director Modupe Akinola and former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, who …
The Phillips Pathway Program: Learning to Advocate for an Inclusive Workplace
As one of the world’s leading experts on diversity in business environments, the late Professor Katherine Phillips left a remarkable legacy of scholarship and inspiration.
For Mariah Celestine ’20 an…
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Goldman Sachs: Erika Irish Brown ‘98
On June 26, Gita Johar, Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion spoke with Erika Irish Brown ‘98, the Chief Diversity Officer at Goldman Sachs, about the firm’s internal response to the global …
What Can Businesses Learn from Protestors? (Part 2 of 2)
Bizcast is continuing our conversation with Management Professor Dan Wang about the connections between protests and business.
Part one examined the skills and leadership abilities protest organizers…
What Can Businesses Learn from Protestors? (Part 1 of 2)
In light of the conversation started by the Black Lives Matter movement, we’re starting a series of special edition podcasts focusing on how pro-equity social changes are affecting industries.
For th…
How the New Normal is Changing Brand Communications
The COVID-19 pandemic presented the already volatile world of brands with a tough new challenge: How does a brand stay viable, but ensure that it is sensitive to the new financial and societal realit…
Inflection Points in the New World of Business
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the business world and the daily lives of millions have undergone massive disruptions in a short amount of time.
The reality of this new normal is what Profes…
Beyond CARES: Economist Glenn Hubbard on Government Response to COVID-19
Overall, Dean Emeritus Glenn Hubbard has been pleased with the government response to the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, noting the speed with which Congress and the administration …
A World of Hurt: The Impact of COVID-19 On Retail
According to a recent Department of Commerce report, retail sales slumped by 8.7 percent in March, as states issued stay-at-home orders and stores closed throughout the nation.
Mark Cohen, the direc…
Setting Policy for What Comes After COVID-19: Dr. Faheem Ahmed ‘20
Like many of his classmates, Dr. Faheem Ahmed started the spring semester, primed to put the finishing touches on his MBA. But after COVID-19 began to spread, he relocated to his home in London to co…
Jacquie Henderson '17: Building Ad Hoc COVID-19 Testing Sites STAT
Jacquie Henderson '17 works in strategy and operations for a seven hospital health system that serves communities in New York's Hudson Valley and in Western Connecticut. When the virus hit, her respo…