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
Understanding the Space Economy
Sinéad O'Sullivan, entrepreneurship fellow at Harvard Business School, discusses how space is much more important to modern business than most people realize. It plays a role in making food, pricing …
00:19:57 |
Tue 28 May 2019
Why It’s Time to Finally Worry about ESG
Robert Eccles, a visiting professor of management practice at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, says that the global investment community's interest in environmental, social, and gove…
00:25:33 |
Tue 21 May 2019
How Having a Rival Improves Performance
Adam Grant, organizational psychologist at The Wharton School, argues that individuals and companies alike can benefit from having rivals. He has studied sports and business rivalries and believes th…
00:25:25 |
Tue 14 May 2019
Global Workers Are Ready for Retraining
Joseph Fuller, professor at Harvard Business School, says that the story we hear about workers being afraid for the future of their jobs might not be right. In surveying 11,000 people in lower-income…
00:26:53 |
Tue 07 May 2019
HBR Presents: Cold Call
Harvard Business School's Brian Kenny is joined by professors to distill the school's legendary case studies into podcast form, giving listeners important takeaways they can use in their own business…
00:24:55 |
Thu 02 May 2019
How China Is Upending Western Marketing Practices
Kimberly Whitler, assistant professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, believes the days of transplanting well-worn Western marketing practices into national markets may be nu…
00:23:45 |
Tue 30 Apr 2019
What Managers Get Wrong About Feedback
Marcus Buckingham, head of people and performance research at the ADP Research Institute, and Ashley Goodall, senior vice president of leadership and team intelligence at Cisco Systems, say that mana…
00:22:17 |
Tue 23 Apr 2019
HBR Presents: Exponential View with Azeem Azhar
Entrepreneur, investor, and podcast host Azeem Azhar looks at some of the biggest issues at the intersection of technology and society, with a focus this season on artificial intelligence. In this ep…
00:31:50 |
Thu 18 Apr 2019
Avoiding the Expertise Trap
Sydney Finkelstein, professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, says that being the most knowledgeable and experienced person on your team isn't always a good thing. Expertise can …
00:21:41 |
Tue 16 Apr 2019
HBR Presents: After Hours
Harvard Business School professors and hosts Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee discuss news at the crossroads of business and culture. In this episode, they analyze the current food…
00:34:29 |
Thu 11 Apr 2019
Why People — and Companies — Need Purpose
Nicholas Pearce, clinical associate professor at Kellogg School of Management, says too many companies and individuals go about their daily business without a strong sense of purpose. He argues that …
00:24:09 |
Tue 09 Apr 2019
The Right Way to Get Your First 1,000 Customers
Thales Teixeira, associate professor at Harvard Business School, believes many startups fail precisely because they try to emulate successful disruptive businesses. He says by focusing too early on t…
00:22:35 |
Tue 02 Apr 2019
Why U.S. Working Moms Are So Stressed – And What To Do About It
Caitlyn Collins, a sociologist at Washington University in St. Louis, conducted interviews with mothers in four countries -- the United States, Italy, Germany, and Sweden -- who have jobs outside the…
00:25:26 |
Tue 26 Mar 2019
A Theoretical Physicist (and Entrepreneur) on Why Companies Stop Innovating
Safi Bahcall, a former biotech CEO, began his career as a theoretical physicist before joining the business world. He compares the moment that innovative companies become complacent ones to a glass o…
00:25:04 |
Tue 19 Mar 2019
Why Are We Still Promoting Incompetent Men?
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a psychologist and chief talent scientist at ManpowerGroup, says we're not picking leaders in the right way. While we should be promoting people based on their competence and…
00:23:54 |
Tue 12 Mar 2019
Make Customers Happier with Operational Transparency
Ryan Buell, associate professor at Harvard Business School, says the never-ending quest for operational efficiency is having unintended consequences. When customers don’t see the work that’s being do…
00:26:07 |
Tue 05 Mar 2019
Fixing Tech’s Gender Gap
Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, is on a mission to get more young women into computer science. She says the problem isn't lack of interest. Her non-profit organization has trained thousand…
00:24:41 |
Tue 26 Feb 2019
How Innovative Companies Help Frontier Markets Grow
Efosa Ojomo, global prosperity lead at the Clayton Christensen Institute, argues that international aid is not the best way to develop poor countries, nor are investments in natural resource extracti…
00:26:09 |
Tue 19 Feb 2019
How to Cope With a Mid-Career Crisis
Kieran Setiya, a philosophy professor at MIT, says many people experience a mid-career crisis. Some have regrets about paths not taken or serious professional missteps; others feel a sense of boredom…
00:25:52 |
Tue 12 Feb 2019
Why Business Jargon Isn’t All Bad
Anne Curzan, English professor at the University of Michigan, studies the evolution of language. While many of us roll our eyes at bizspeak — from synergy to value-add to operationalize — Curzan defe…
00:26:39 |
Tue 05 Feb 2019
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