HBR IdeaCast
A weekly podcast featuring the leading thinkers in business and management.
Leadership
Marketing
Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Management
Business/Entrepreneurship
Finance
Business
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 669
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
The Rise and Fall of Carlos Ghosn: Part 2
After Carlos Ghosn’s dramatic turnaround at Nissan, profits soar and Ghosnmania sweeps Japan. But signs of trouble emerge as Ghosn takes over as the CEO of both Renault and Nissan in 2005. Then Ghosn…
00:31:47 |
Thu 10 Jun 2021
What Business Leaders Need to Know About China Now
Elsbeth Johnson, senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and Rana Mitter, professor of history at Oxford, argue that there's a lot about the Chinese political system and economy that bus…
00:26:12 |
Tue 08 Jun 2021
The Rise and Fall of Carlos Ghosn: Part 1
When Japan's most famous CEO is suddenly arrested, conflicts are revealed in the Renault-Nissan Alliance he led for two decades. Then Carlos Ghosn jumps bail by stowing away in a private jet to Leban…
00:31:13 |
Thu 03 Jun 2021
How Leaders Can Encourage Imagination
Martin Reeves, managing director and senior partner at Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute, has looked at how companies reinvent themselves to achieve success. And he has found that an esse…
00:25:45 |
Tue 01 Jun 2021
CEO Series: Ursula Burns on Leading with Authenticity at Xerox
Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016, rose from humble beginnings to become the first Black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company. In this interview with HBR editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius, she t…
00:29:32 |
Thu 27 May 2021
Why Smart People (Sometimes) Make Bad Decisions
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winner and emeritus professor at Princeton University, and Olivier Sibony, professor of strategy at HEC, say that bias isn't the only thing that prevents people and organ…
00:26:59 |
Tue 25 May 2021
CEO Series: 23andMe’s Anne Wojcicki on Scientific Breakthroughs and Public Trust
Anne Wojcicki, CEO of 23andMe, spent a decade in healthcare and biotechnology before launching the DNA testing and analysis company in 2006. Her goal was twofold: to help individuals learn more about…
00:23:55 |
Thu 20 May 2021
Understanding the Venture Capital Gender Gap
Jenny Lefcourt, partner at Freestyle VC and cofounder of All Raise, says that even as a serial entrepreneur herself, she long underestimated how little venture capital funding goes to female startup …
00:23:14 |
Tue 18 May 2021
CEO Series: Mastercard’s Ajay Banga on Promoting Financial Inclusion
Ajay Banga, the executive chairman and former CEO of Mastercard, has spearheaded a strategy focused on serving the previously unbanked via new technologies. During his 11-year tenure as president and…
00:28:37 |
Thu 13 May 2021
How To Talk Yourself Up (Without Turning People Off)
Leslie John, associate professor at Harvard Business School, has done some deep research into the ways that people self-promote in their professional lives and identified what works and what doesn't.…
00:25:19 |
Tue 11 May 2021
CEO Series: Mary Barra of General Motors on Committing to an Eco-Friendly Future
Mary Barra, chair and CEO of General Motors, says that electric vehicles are the future for the company and the automobile industry. GM has said it will phase out vehicles using internal combustion e…
00:23:19 |
Thu 06 May 2021
How Tech Adoption Fuels China’s Innovation Boom
Zak Dychtwald, founder of the advisory firm Young China Group, believes that the perception of China as a copycat and not an innovator is outdated. Instead, he argues the willingness of Chinese consu…
00:25:06 |
Tue 04 May 2021
Quit Overthinking Things
Ethan Kross, professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, has spent years studying how people talk to themselves and the effect that this "chatter" has on our performance. From professional…
00:25:36 |
Tue 27 Apr 2021
Streamlining Your Company’s Strategy
Felix Oberholzer-Gee, professor at Harvard Business School, says many organizations spend so much energy on strategy that it overwhelms with conflicting priorities. Instead, he argues companies shoul…
00:26:23 |
Tue 20 Apr 2021
The Career Rules You Didn’t Learn at School
Gorick Ng, career advisor at Harvard, tried to learn about the world of work at an early age, helping his mother search job listings and send out resumes. To launch his own career, he studied hard in…
00:26:01 |
Tue 13 Apr 2021
How the Creative Economy is Changing with Covid-19
Scott Belsky, chief product officer at Adobe, says that creative workers are a bigger part of the economy than ever, thanks to new technologies, more gig work, and shifting norms following the pandem…
00:24:03 |
Tue 06 Apr 2021
Building a Company While Battling Depression
Melissa Bernstein, cofounder of the toy company Melissa & Doug, spent decades hiding her struggles with depression even as she launched and led a booming business focused on bringing joy to children …
00:25:50 |
Tue 30 Mar 2021
The Competitive Advantage of an Offboarding Program
Alison Dachner, management professor at John Carroll University, and Erin Makarius, management professor at the University of Akron, say that an organization can become more competitive by implementi…
00:23:18 |
Tue 23 Mar 2021
Workplace Design, Post-Pandemic (Back to Work, Better)
Anne-Laure Fayard, associate professor at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, was studying the effects of workplace design on employees long before the Covid-19 crisis. Now, she says, the trend of fl…
00:24:44 |
Tue 16 Mar 2021
New Recruiting Strategies for a Post-Covid World (Back to Work, Better)
Lauren Smith, vice president at Gartner Research, says the pandemic is accelerating several key recruitment trends. She led a survey of thousands of job candidates and hiring managers that details th…
00:23:04 |
Tue 09 Mar 2021
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