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
How Alibaba Is Leading Digital Innovation in China
Ming Zeng, the chief strategy officer at Alibaba, talks about how the China-based e-commerce company was able to create the biggest online shopping site in the world. He credits Alibaba’s retail and …
00:18:06 |
Tue 11 Sep 2018
The Science Behind Sleep and High Performance
Marc Effron, president of the Talent Strategy Group, looked at the scientific literature behind high performance at work and identified eight steps we can all take to get an edge. Among those steps i…
00:20:16 |
Tue 04 Sep 2018
The Science Behind Sleep and High Performance
Marc Effron, president of the Talent Strategy Group, looked at the scientific literature behind high performance at work and identified eight steps we can all take to get an edge. Among those steps i…
00:20:16 |
Tue 04 Sep 2018
Understanding Digital Strategy
Sunil Gupta, a professor at Harvard Business School, argues that many companies are still doing digital strategy wrong. Their leaders think of "going digital" as either a way to cut costs or to attra…
00:26:35 |
Tue 28 Aug 2018
Managing Someone Who’s Too Collaborative
Rebecca Shambaugh, a leadership coach, says being too collaborative can actually hold you back at work. Instead of showing how well you build consensus and work with others, it can look like indecisi…
00:23:06 |
Tue 21 Aug 2018
Networking Myths Dispelled
David Burkus, a professor at Oral Roberts University and author of the book “Friend of a Friend,” explains common misconceptions about networking. First, trading business cards at a networking event …
00:18:04 |
Tue 14 Aug 2018
Designing AI to Make Decisions
Kathryn Hume, VP of integrate.ai, discusses the current boundaries between artificially intelligent machines, and humans. While the power of A.I. can conjure up some of our darkest fears, she says th…
00:25:32 |
Fri 10 Aug 2018
Why Opening Up at Work Is Harder for Minorities
Katherine Phillips, a professor at Columbia Business School, discusses research showing that African-Americans are often reluctant to tell their white colleagues about their personal lives — and that…
00:22:36 |
Tue 07 Aug 2018
Learning from GE’s Stumbles
Roger Martin, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, offers two main reasons General Electric has lost its competitiveness. GE’s stock has been removed from the Dow J…
00:16:35 |
Tue 31 Jul 2018
Turning Purpose Into Performance
Gerry Anderson, the CEO of DTE Energy, and Robert Quinn and Anjan Thakor, professors at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and the Olin Business School at Washington University, res…
00:26:50 |
Tue 24 Jul 2018
The 2 Types of Respect Leaders Must Show
Kristie Rogers, an assistant professor of management at Marquette University, has identified a free and abundant resource most leaders aren’t giving employees enough of: respect. She explains the two…
00:23:34 |
Tue 17 Jul 2018
How Some Companies Beat the Competition… For Centuries
Howard Yu, Lego Professor of Management and Innovation at IMD Business School in Switzerland, discusses how the industrial cluster in the Swiss city of Basel is a unique example of enduring competiti…
00:20:26 |
Tue 10 Jul 2018
Architect Daniel Libeskind on Working Unconventionally
Daniel Libeskind, a former academic turned architect and urban designer, discusses his unorthodox career path and repeat success at high-profile, emotionally charged projects. He also talks about his…
00:20:26 |
Tue 03 Jul 2018
When India Killed Off Cash Overnight
Bhaskar Chakravorti, the dean of global business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, analyzes the economic impact of India’s unprecedented demonetization move in 2016. With no advance warning…
00:23:38 |
Wed 27 Jun 2018
Getting People to Help You
Heidi Grant, a social psychologist, explains the right ways and wrong ways to ask colleagues for help. She says people are much more likely to lend us a hand than we think they are; they just want it…
00:21:31 |
Tue 19 Jun 2018
How to Become More Self-Aware
Tasha Eurich, an organizational psychologist and executive coach, talks about why we all should be working on self-awareness. Few people are truly self-aware, she says, and those who are don’t get th…
00:19:17 |
Tue 12 Jun 2018
Bill Clinton and James Patterson on Collaboration and Cybersecurity
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and author James Patterson discuss their new novel, The President is Missing, in which a fictional president fights a cybersecurity attack amid intense political dy…
00:15:15 |
Tue 05 Jun 2018
Ask Better Questions
Leslie K. John and Alison Wood Brooks, professors at Harvard Business School, say people in business can be more successful by asking more and better questions. They talk through what makes for a gre…
00:22:06 |
Tue 29 May 2018
How AI Is Making Prediction Cheaper
Avi Goldfarb, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, explains the economics of machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence that makes predictions. He says a…
00:22:41 |
Tue 22 May 2018
Dual-Career Couples Are Forcing Firms to Rethink Talent Management
Jennifer Petriglieri, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD, asks company leaders to consider whether they really need to relocate their high-potential employees or make them tr…
00:25:31 |
Tue 15 May 2018
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