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
Great Leaders Use Tough Love to Improve Performance
Frances Frei, professor at Harvard Business School, says that trust, empathy - and even a bit of tough love - are all essential ingredients to strong leadership in today's world. Successful managers …
00:27:55 |
Tue 02 Jun 2020
Staying Agile Beyond a Crisis
Darrell Rigby, partner at Bain & Company, says many firms have rapidly adopted agile principles to react to the coronavirus crisis. Namely, they’ve been ditching bureaucratic planning processes and i…
00:25:45 |
Tue 26 May 2020
Smarter Side Gigs
Ken Banta, founder of the Vanguard Network, and Orlan Boston, partner at Ernst & Young, argue that every aspiring leader needs to have a side gig -- not to pursue a crazy dream or earn some extra cas…
00:27:34 |
Tue 19 May 2020
To Build Strategy, Start with the Future
Mark Johnson, cofounder of the consulting firm Innosight, says that too many managers develop strategy while focusing on problems in the present, and that’s especially true during a crisis. Instead, …
00:24:27 |
Tue 12 May 2020
How Marketers Can Drive Social Change and Profits
Myriam Sidibe, senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, says that brands are uniquely positioned to encourage shifts in consumer behavior that benefit individuals, communities, and the environmen…
00:25:47 |
Tue 05 May 2020
Digital Transformation, One Discovery at a Time
Rita McGrath, professor at Columbia Business School, says the need for organizations to adopt digital business models is more important than ever. Change is accelerating as startups tackle incumbents…
00:21:00 |
Tue 28 Apr 2020
Another Workplace Crisis: Loneliness
Vivek Murthy, former U.S. Surgeon General, says that, even before the Covid-19 pandemic, we were facing another health crisis: loneliness. Studies show that, around the world, more people have been f…
00:27:03 |
Tue 21 Apr 2020
Managing Crises in the Short and Long Term
Eric McNulty, associate director of Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, studies how managers successfully lead their companies through crises such as the Deepwater Horizon oil disa…
00:27:12 |
Tue 14 Apr 2020
How Entrepreneurs Succeed Outside Silicon Valley
Alex Lazarow, venture capitalist at Cathay Innovation, says that start-ups in cities around the U.S. and the world are creating their own rules for success. While Silicon Valley companies have sparke…
00:26:53 |
Tue 07 Apr 2020
Working Parents, Let Go of the Idea of Balance
Stewart Friedman, organizational psychologist at The Wharton School, and Alyssa Westring, associate professor at DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business, say it’s a mistake for a working par…
00:26:04 |
Tue 31 Mar 2020
Real Leaders: Oprah Winfrey and the Power of Empathy
In 1976, broadcast journalist Oprah Winfrey moved to Baltimore to coanchor the evening newscast at a local TV station. But she struggled in that spot and was moved to the morning talk show. That demo…
00:29:10 |
Thu 26 Mar 2020
Adjusting to Remote Work During the Coronavirus Crisis
Tsedal Neeley, a professor at Harvard Business School, says that there are simple ways leaders can help their employees stay productive, focused, and psychologically healthy as they work from home du…
00:27:21 |
Tue 24 Mar 2020
Real Leaders: Abraham Lincoln and the Power of Emotional Discipline
In 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln wrote a scathing letter to his top Union general, who had squandered a chance to end the Civil War. Then Lincoln folded it up and tucked it away in his desk. H…
00:27:22 |
Thu 19 Mar 2020
Square’s Cofounder on Discovering — and Defending — Innovations
Jim McKelvey, entrepreneur and cofounder of Square, says that most companies that think of themselves as innovative are really just copycats. True innovation, he argues, is about fearlessly exploring…
00:27:36 |
Tue 17 Mar 2020
Real Leaders: Rachel Carson Seeds the Environmental Movement
In 1958, writer Rachel Carson began her exhaustive research on the effects of widespread pesticide use for her next book, Silent Spring. Over the next four years, she built up an airtight case showin…
00:25:00 |
Thu 12 Mar 2020
Why Capitalists Need to Save Democracy
Rebecca Henderson, professor at Harvard Business School, says that both capitalism and democracy are failing us. She argues that it will take public and private leaders working together to simultaneo…
00:27:38 |
Tue 10 Mar 2020
Real Leaders: Ernest Shackleton Leads a Harrowing Expedition
In 1915, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship became trapped in ice, north of Antarctica. For the next two years, he kept his crew of 27 men alive on a drifting ice cap, then led them in their esc…
00:30:45 |
Thu 05 Mar 2020
How Workplaces — Not Women — Need to Change to Improve Equality
Michelle King, director of inclusion at Netflix, says it’s time to stop telling women to adapt to the male-dominated workplace and time for the workplace itself to change. Her prior academic research…
00:20:07 |
Tue 03 Mar 2020
Rules for Effective Hiring — and Firing
Joel Peterson, chairman of JetBlue Airways, has spent a career leading teams, building businesses, and managing people at every level. Along the way, he's learned valuable lessons about the best ways…
00:24:29 |
Tue 25 Feb 2020
Defining Radical Candor – and How to Do It
Kim Scott, a cofounder of the executive coaching firm Radical Candor, says that too many managers give meaningless positive feedback, while many others are highly critical without showing any underst…
00:25:25 |
Tue 18 Feb 2020
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