HBR IdeaCast
A weekly podcast featuring the leading thinkers in business and management.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 669
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Inside Companies that Get the Purpose-Profit Balance Right
Purpose has become a corporate buzzword over the past decade. Leaders are embracing the idea that companies can’t just do well financially; they also have to do good for society. But how many organiz…
00:28:05 |
Tue 15 Feb 2022
The Positives—and Perils—of Storytelling
Jonathan Gottschall, a distinguished fellow at Washington & Jefferson College, has researched storytelling and its unique power to inspire. But as he spoke at business conferences and grew aware of t…
00:25:55 |
Tue 08 Feb 2022
Need a Reset? Try This One Quick Meditation Session (Bonus)
You've probably heard about the benefits of mindfulness and how meditation can help you achieve it. But you still can't find the inclination to start or the time to practice regularly. In this short …
00:15:02 |
Thu 03 Feb 2022
No, Tech Start-ups Aren’t Taking Over the World
Looking at business news and stock market coverage over the past decade (including a few HBR articles), you'd think that just about every traditional, old-economy company has fallen prey -- or will s…
00:28:28 |
Tue 01 Feb 2022
Why Companies Should Stop Political Spending Now
A decade ago, the U.S. Supreme Court changed the rules on how businesses could donate to political campaigns. Since then, hundreds of millions of corporate dollars have been spent on local, state, an…
00:26:36 |
Tue 25 Jan 2022
How Companies Reckon with Past Wrongdoing
Sarah Federman, assistant professor at the University of Baltimore, studies how companies handle their historical misdeeds and what that means for employees and customers. From insurance firms that b…
00:22:58 |
Tue 18 Jan 2022
To Get Ahead, You Need Both Ambition and Humility
We know that great leadership takes not just intelligence and drive but also the ability to get along well with and learn from others. The key, says Amer Kaissi, is to be both ambitious and humble th…
00:25:40 |
Tue 11 Jan 2022
We’re Bad at Measuring Inequality—Here’s Why That Matters
Stefanie Stantcheva, economist at Harvard University, founded the Social Economics Lab to study inequality, our feelings about it, and how policies influence it. She says when we estimate how much mo…
00:22:58 |
Tue 04 Jan 2022
Best of IdeaCast: What Sets Successful People Apart
Heidi Grant, a motivational psychologist, has studied successful people and what makes them tick. In this classic episode, she and former host Sarah Green Carmichael discuss the behaviors of high ach…
00:19:21 |
Tue 28 Dec 2021
There Still Aren’t Enough “Good Jobs”
Companies around the world are struggling to fill open positions, while millions of unemployed people look for work. What's going on? Zeynep Ton, professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, says…
00:27:05 |
Tue 21 Dec 2021
Gaslighting at Work—and What to Do About It
Mita Mallick, head of inclusion, equity, and impact at the firm Carta, says gaslighting at the office is more common than many people realize. That's when a manager or coworker engages in behavior wh…
00:19:17 |
Tue 14 Dec 2021
How to Use All Your Vacation — And Really Unplug
When was the last time you really took a sustained break from work? No emails. No calls. No taking care of that one little thing. For most of us — particularly in the United States -- it's been too…
00:27:58 |
Tue 07 Dec 2021
One Way to Fight the Great Resignation? Re-recruit Your Current Employees
Debbie Cohen and Kate Roeske-Zummer, cofounders of HumanityWorks, are sounding an alarm bell for employee retention. Record numbers of people are quitting their jobs due to burnout and better opportu…
00:26:26 |
Tue 30 Nov 2021
Why the Highest Paying Jobs So Rarely Go to Women
Companies pay disproportionately high salaries to CEOs and other high-powered professionals willing to live and breathe their jobs, on-call 24/7, ready to pick up and travel. It's a phenomenon Harvar…
00:23:31 |
Tue 23 Nov 2021
In a New Role? Here’s How to Hit the Ground Running
Rob Cross, management professor at Babson College, says people are changing jobs more than ever and too often falling short when they do. Surveys show nearly half of people promoted within their own …
00:26:22 |
Tue 16 Nov 2021
The Future of Work Is Projects—So You’ve Got to Get Them Right
Companies of every size in every industry and part of the world are basing more of their work around projects. And yet research shows that nearly two-thirds of those efforts fail. Antonio Nieto-Rodri…
00:23:56 |
Tue 09 Nov 2021
Anti-Bias Policies That Really Work in Customer Service
Alexandra Feldberg and Tami Kim, assistant professors at Harvard Business School and the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, respectively, say companies are overlooking an important pla…
00:24:24 |
Tue 02 Nov 2021
Find Focus in a Chaotic World
If you're feeling distracted, mentally fogged, and unable to pay attention to (or focus on if attention is in hed) the task at hand, you're not alone. The human brain is highly susceptible to often u…
00:27:10 |
Tue 26 Oct 2021
Algorithms Won’t Solve All Your Pricing Problems
Marco Bertini, marketing professor at Esade Business School, says more and more companies are turning to pricing algorithms to maximize profits. But many are unaware of a big downside. The constant p…
00:26:34 |
Tue 19 Oct 2021
Tech’s Exponential Growth – and How to Solve the Problems It’s Created
Technological development is happening faster than ever and changing our lives in fundamental ways. The companies behind all these new gadgets and services are no doubt the greatest corporate success…
00:24:29 |
Tue 12 Oct 2021
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