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
Choosing a Strategy for Your Startup
Joshua Gans, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, advises against trying to commercialize a new technology or product before considering all the strategic options. …
00:20:55 |
Tue 08 May 2018
Use Learning to Engage Your Team
Whitney Johnson, an executive coach, argues that on-the-job learning is the key to keeping people motivated. When managers understand that, and understand where the people they manage are on their in…
00:24:20 |
Tue 01 May 2018
Why Technical Experts Make Great Leaders
Amanda Goodall, a senior lecturer at Cass Business School in London, argues that the best leaders are technical experts, not general managers. She discusses her research findings about doctors who he…
00:20:48 |
Tue 24 Apr 2018
How AI Can Improve How We Work
Paul Daugherty and James Wilson, senior technology leaders at Accenture, argue that robots and smarter computers aren't coming for our jobs. They talk about companies that are already giving employee…
00:19:33 |
Tue 17 Apr 2018
You May Be a Workaholic If
Nancy Rothbard, a professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, draws a distinction between workaholism and working long hours. She explains the health consequences of b…
00:22:40 |
Wed 11 Apr 2018
Make Work Engaging Again
Dan Cable, a professor of organizational behavior at London Business School, explains why people often lose their enthusiasm for their work and how leaders can help them get it back. He says we shoul…
00:22:15 |
Tue 03 Apr 2018
Why CEOs Are Taking a Stand
Professors Michael Toffel, of Harvard Business School, and Aaron Chatterji, of Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, discuss the emerging phenomenon of CEO activism. They explain how political polarizatio…
00:30:09 |
Tue 27 Mar 2018
Leading with Less Ego
Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter, of the global consulting firm Potential Project, make their case for mindfulness, selflessness, and compassion in leadership. Their survey of 30,000 leaders sho…
00:19:54 |
Wed 21 Mar 2018
McKinsey’s Head on Why Corporate Sustainability Efforts Are Falling Short
Dominic Barton, the global managing partner of McKinsey&Company, discusses the firm’s sustainability efforts. He talks about the wake-up call he got about sustainability and how he tries to convince …
00:17:34 |
Tue 13 Mar 2018
Harvard’s President on Leading During a Time of Change
Drew Gilpin Faust, the president of Harvard University, talks about leading the institution through a decade of change, from the financial crisis to the Trump era. Faust discusses how communicating a…
00:29:45 |
Wed 07 Mar 2018
Make Tools Like Slack Work for Your Company
Tsedal Neeley, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Paul Leonardi, a management professor at UC Santa Barbara, talk about the potential that applications such as Slack, Yammer, and Microsoft T…
00:33:21 |
Tue 27 Feb 2018
The CEO of Merck on Race, Leadership, and High Drug Prices
Kenneth Frazier, the CEO of the pharmaceutical company known as MSD outside of North America, discusses his upbringing and how it influences his leadership as chief executive. He is one of the few Af…
00:29:39 |
Mon 19 Feb 2018
The Future of MBA Education
Scott DeRue, the dean of University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, says the old model of business school education is gone. It's no longer good enough to sequester yourself on campus for two …
00:21:44 |
Wed 14 Feb 2018
Introducing Dear HBR:
What should you do when you become the boss? HBR's new advice podcast Dear HBR: has the answers. In this bonus episode, Dear HBR: co-hosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the h…
00:35:36 |
Fri 09 Feb 2018
Does Your Firm See You as a High Potential?
Jay Conger, a leadership professor at Claremont McKenna College, goes behind the scenes to show how you can get on, and stay on, your company's fast track. He demystifies how companies (often very se…
00:24:56 |
Tue 06 Feb 2018
Women at Work: Make Yourself Heard
In this special episode, HBR IdeaCast host Sarah Green Carmichael introduces Harvard Business Review’s new podcast “Women at Work,” about women’s experiences in the workplace. This episode about bein…
00:46:04 |
Tue 30 Jan 2018
Controlling Your Emotions During a Negotiation
Moshe Cohen, a senior lecturer at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, says you can't take the emotion out of a negotiation. After all, negotiations revolve around conflict, risk, and rew…
00:25:31 |
Tue 23 Jan 2018
For Better Customer Service, Offer Options, Not Apologies
Jagdip Singh, a professor of marketing at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, explains his research team’s new findings about customer satisfaction. He says apolo…
00:27:57 |
Tue 16 Jan 2018
Why Leaders Should Make a Habit of Teaching
Sydney Finkelstein, a professor of management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, encourages leaders to approach their direct reports like teachers. As Finkelstein explains, being a …
00:19:22 |
Tue 09 Jan 2018
Hiring the Best People
Patty McCord, Netflix’s former Chief Talent Officer, sees hiring as constant matchmaking. Building a team of people that gets amazing work done, she says, requires managers to really know what they n…
00:27:56 |
Tue 02 Jan 2018
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