HBR IdeaCast
A weekly podcast featuring the leading thinkers in business and management.
Entrepreneurship
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 669
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
What the EV Industry’s Challenges Reveal About Innovation and Regulation
Many consumers are buying electric vehicles, thanks to sportscar-like performance, government incentives, and personal motivations to minimize climate change. But the EV industry overall has revved a…
00:26:24 |
Tue 04 Feb 2025
Employment Is Changing Forever
As organizations and workers face a new wave of technological change, Deborah Perry Piscione argues that we're at a pivot point where old models of employment will be replaced by entirely new ones. G…
00:29:34 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
To Fix Broken Work Systems, You Need to Reset
If you've ever tried to change things at work, you know the headwinds you face. Teams and processes are often trapped in longstanding, ineffective patterns that are hard to budge. Dan Heath, senior f…
00:30:37 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
How to Get Better at Saying No
Our families, schools, and workplaces often train us to comply: taking on additional work when asked, agreeing with the group's consensus, and going along to get along with our bosses and colleagues.…
00:27:53 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
Dealing with Perfectionism
High standards, attention to detail, and self-control are invaluable qualities at work. They’re also aspects of perfectionism, something to which many high achievers credit much of their success. But…
00:26:52 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
How To Enhance Your Leadership with “Personal Power”
We all know the stereotypes of leaders who use charisma, manipulation, domineering behavior, or their status in the hierarchy to exert control. But there is another type of leader whose power isn’t n…
00:25:36 |
Tue 31 Dec 2024
Best of IdeaCast: To Build Stronger Teams, Ask Better Questions
Asking questions is a powerful way to build trust, exchange ideas, and unlock value in organizations. And it is a skill that can be honed to make work conversations more productive, say Leslie K. Joh…
00:22:31 |
Tue 24 Dec 2024
The Case for Selling Products that Adapt
Many companies make money by selling goods that need to be constantly replaced; think fast fashion, or tech devices that come out in new versions each year. But according to Vijay Govindarajan, profe…
00:24:41 |
Tue 17 Dec 2024
A Hollywood Producer’s Formula for Taking Bigger Risks
Hollywood is known for huge personalities and behemoth production studios taking big swings. But critics worry that the movie industry is playing it way too safe recently — by churning out remakes an…
00:27:49 |
Tue 10 Dec 2024
Boost Your Creativity in Any Job
We all know that innovative thinking is vital to individual, team, and organizational success. But we still often put creativity in a box, assuming it's only for people in certain roles or best attem…
00:30:09 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
Tried-and-True Networking Tips from Decades of Experience
Twenty-five years ago, a Harvard Business School case study featured the exceptional networking practices of Silicon Valley entrepreneur and venture capitalist Heidi Roizen. This was before the rise …
00:27:09 |
Tue 26 Nov 2024
Future of Business: Palo Alto Networks’ Nikesh Arora on Managing Risk in the Age of AI
Palo Alto Networks is the leading global cybersecurity company. Over his six-year tenure there, CEO Nikesh Arora has expanded and reorganized the organization, including safely incorporating generati…
00:21:54 |
Thu 21 Nov 2024
10 Gems from IdeaCast’s First 1,000 Episodes
This week marks a huge milestone for the HBR IdeaCast: our 1000th episode! Since the podcast launched in 2006, so much has happened. What hasn’t changed is our commitment to sharing in-depth conversa…
00:28:12 |
Tue 19 Nov 2024
Future of Business: Baidu’s Robin Li on the Technology Trends that Will Transform Business
Baidu launched in 2000 as a search engine platform. Two decades later, it’s become one of the few companies in the world that offers a full AI stack. Its core businesses span mobile, cloud, intellige…
00:21:34 |
Thu 14 Nov 2024
The Growing Trend of Part-Time Executives
Imagine you’re leading a small organization, but you’re struggling to recruit and afford the senior talent you need to grow. You could hire a part-time executive. So-called “fractional leadership” is…
00:30:08 |
Tue 12 Nov 2024
Future of Business: SAIC’s Toni Townes-Whitley on Leading Strategic Transformation
With more than $7 billion in annual revenue and 24,000 employees, SAIC provides engineering, digital, AI, and mission support to defense, space, intelligence, and civilian customers. CEO Toni Townes-…
00:26:27 |
Thu 07 Nov 2024
Unifying Leadership in a Divided Time
Around the world, the past few years have been marked by increasing political polarization and public outrage. Like it or not, this spills over into the business world, with employees, customers, and…
00:29:36 |
Tue 05 Nov 2024
Future of Business: Reid Hoffman on Managing Technological Change and Innovation
Reid Hoffman is one of the most prominent and recognizable voices in Silicon Valley, and after predicting some of the biggest trends that have shaped our world in the last 25 years, he is sharing his…
00:29:41 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
Turn Employee Feedback into Real Results
We live in an age of data. But having powerful tools to gather employee feedback doesn't mean you’ll get powerful results. It’s challenging for executives to turn that feedback into substantive actio…
00:27:49 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
The Real Reasons Employees Quit — and How to Retain Them
Unwelcome employee turnover can create big problems for managers, teams, and organizations, so it's important to understand the real drivers of attrition. New research from Ethan Bernstein, associate…
00:29:58 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
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