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
Breaking Down the New U.S. Corporate Tax Law
Mihir Desai, a professor of finance at Harvard Business School, breaks down the brand-new U.S. tax law. He says it will affect everything from how corporate assets are financed to how business are st…
00:26:22 |
Tue 26 Dec 2017
Making Unlimited Vacation Time Work
Aron Ain, the CEO of Kronos Incorporated, explains why unlimited vacation can be in the best interests of employees and the organization. He describes how his software company tracks requests for tim…
00:22:33 |
Wed 20 Dec 2017
How Technology Tests Our Trust
Rachel Botsman, the author of “Who Can You Trust?", talks about how trust works, whether in relation to robots, companies, or other people. Technology, she says, speeds up the development of trust an…
00:19:02 |
Tue 12 Dec 2017
Box’s CEO on Pivoting to the Enterprise Market
Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, reflects on the cloud storage company’s entry into the enterprise market. He was skeptical about pivoting away from consumers, and it was challenging. But by staying disc…
00:18:32 |
Tue 05 Dec 2017
Why More CEOs Should Be Hired from Within
Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, a senior adviser at the global executive search firm Egon Zehnder, makes the case for finding a company’s next CEO inside the firm. But to find the best contenders, organizat…
00:18:30 |
Tue 28 Nov 2017
Dow Chemical’s CEO on Running an Environmentally Friendly Multinational
Andrew Liveris, the CEO of Dow Chemical, discusses the 120-year-old company’s ambitious sustainability agenda. He says an environmentally driven business model is good for the earth—and the bottom li…
00:16:21 |
Tue 21 Nov 2017
When ‘Best Practices’ Backfire
Freek Vermeulen, an associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the London Business School, argues that too many companies are following so-called best practices that are actually holding…
00:20:11 |
Tue 14 Nov 2017
The Hardscrabble Business of Chinese Manufacturing in Africa
Irene Yuan Sun, a consultant at McKinsey, explains why so many Chinese entrepreneurs are setting up factories in Africa. She describes what it’s like inside these factories, who works there, what the…
00:25:34 |
Tue 07 Nov 2017
Astronaut Scott Kelly on Working in Space
Scott Kelly, a retired U.S. astronaut, spent 520 days in space over four missions. Working in outer space is a lot like working on earth, but with different challenges and in closer quarters. Kelly l…
00:18:24 |
Tue 31 Oct 2017
2017’s Top-Performing CEO on Getting Product Right
Pablo Isla, the CEO of Inditex, is No. 1 on Harvard Business Review’s list of “The Best-Performing CEOs in the World 2017.” He opens up about his management style and reflects on his tenure leading t…
00:18:05 |
Tue 24 Oct 2017
Everyday People Who Led Momentous Change
Nancy Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian, tells the life stories of three influential leaders: the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the pacifist Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the ecologist Rachel …
00:22:47 |
Thu 19 Oct 2017
So, You Want to Join a Startup
Jeff Bussgang, a venture capitalist who teaches entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, knows from personal experience and having funded many startups that there’s more than one way into that wo…
00:26:39 |
Thu 12 Oct 2017
How Successful Solopreneurs Make Money
Dorie Clark, a marketing strategy consultant, answers a burning question: how do people make money off of what they know? She outlines the options for experts who want to monetize their knowledge. Cl…
00:22:24 |
Thu 05 Oct 2017
Microsoft’s CEO on Rediscovering the Company’s Soul
Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s third CEO, opens up about his effort to refresh the culture of the company and renew its focus on the future. He reflects on important life lessons he learned growing up in…
00:24:04 |
Thu 28 Sep 2017
Transcending Either-Or Decision Making
Jennifer Riel, an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, presents a model way to solve problems: integrative thinking. It’s taking the best from two inadequate options to come up with …
00:18:58 |
Thu 21 Sep 2017
Find Your Happy Place at Work
Annie McKee, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the book “How to Be Happy at Work,” tells the story of her journey to happiness—starting with her early job as a caregiver…
00:29:38 |
Thu 14 Sep 2017
How to Fix “Team Creep”
Mark Mortensen, an associate professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD, discusses the research on "multiteaming"—when employees work not only across multiple projects, but multiple teams. It has…
00:24:15 |
Fri 08 Sep 2017
Why Everyone Should See Themselves as a Leader
Sue Ashford, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, breaks down her decades of research on leadership—who achieves it, and how a group grants it. She explains that the w…
00:24:20 |
Thu 31 Aug 2017
Basic Competence Can Be a Strategy
Raffaella Sadun, a professor at Harvard Business School, explains why seemingly common-sensical management practices are so hard to implement. After surveying thousands of organizations across the wo…
00:21:31 |
Thu 24 Aug 2017
How the U.S. Navy is Responding to Climate Change
Forest Reinhardt and Michael Toffel, Harvard Business School professors, talk about how a giant, global enterprise that operates and owns assets at sea level is fighting climate change—and adapting t…
00:21:18 |
Fri 18 Aug 2017
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