The Sydcast
The Sydcast is all about intimate and informative conversations with fascinating people you may not know. Until now. Because everyone has a story.
Listen in as Syd talks to entrepreneurs, community leaders, professional athletes, politicians, academics, authors, musicians, and many more about who they are and how they got there.
Sydney Finkelstein is an award winning professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and a best-selling author of Superbosses and 25 other books. He’s written for the Harvard Business Review, the BBC, Fortune, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and more academic journals than you’d care to know about. He spends his time asking questions, and sometimes, even answering them.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 155
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2023
The Incredible Rob Kapilow: The Polyglot Pied Piper of Music
Episode Summary
In this final episode of Season 4, I bring you Rob Kapilow. A musical savant, innovator, and global presence, listening to Rob is like taking a master class in music, and in life. Fr…
01:06:31 |
Mon 02 Jan 2023
Ben Koldyke: From Football Coach to "How I Met Your Mother"
How does it happen that an English teacher and sports coach becomes a renowned actor?
00:50:36 |
Mon 26 Dec 2022
Mike Morin: A Life in Radio
A life in radio in the “Live Free or Die” state.
00:59:03 |
Mon 19 Dec 2022
Laurie Wallmark: STEM Books for Kids
Laurie Wallmark, one of the first women at Princeton, has been a software engineer, a computer science professor, and now, an award-winning writer of picture book biographies of women in STEM, for ki…
01:00:19 |
Mon 12 Dec 2022
Alejandro Juarez Crawford: Democratizing Entrepreneurship
Erudite and articulate, Alejandro is that unique leader who can share his philosophy about innovation and purpose while grounded in the everyday reality of what works and what doesn’t.
01:06:18 |
Mon 05 Dec 2022
Hannah Kearney: Olympic Gold Medalist
Hannah Kearney - Olympic Gold Medalist – reflects on what it’s like to be the best in the world and how you come down from that high to live a productive, and energizing, life.
01:01:19 |
Mon 28 Nov 2022
Not Lost in Translation, with Wendy Pease
From melting pots to immigration, on this episode of The Sydcast a deep dive into an entrepreneurial life set in motion long ago.
00:57:19 |
Mon 21 Nov 2022
Bad Blood: Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, with author John Carreyrou
What happens when you discover a multi-billion fraud that affects the lives of thousands of people? The story of Theranos, by the man who broke the story for the WSJ.
00:49:58 |
Mon 14 Nov 2022
Snap, with CMO Kenny Mitchell
Kenny Mitchell – an Emmy Award nominated leader who combines creativity with business smarts – describes his move to Big Tech, life at Snapchat, augmented reality, and what he wished he knew when he …
00:54:33 |
Mon 07 Nov 2022
Taking on Climate Change with Design Thinking: Silicon Valley's David Johnson
Dave Johnson is a Silicon Valley attorney and climate change activist whose attention to design thinking suggests a less well-traveled approach to dealing with global threats.
01:00:35 |
Mon 31 Oct 2022
Climate Change, with Professor Maron Greenleaf
An in-depth look at the economics, science, and politics that underpin the battle for global sustainability, with Professor Maron Greenleaf.
00:48:00 |
Mon 24 Oct 2022
A Snapshot of Two Dartmouth Students Who Want to Change the World
Two women – one studying economics with her own fashion line (Avalux) and a member of the US 2020 Olympic team in rugby, the other a first-generation low-income Latina college student in bioengineeri…
00:46:19 |
Mon 17 Oct 2022
Student-Athlete Kevin Boyce Takes On Brown University
An African-American scholar-athlete at Brown University fighting to preserve his sport in a diminished resource environment during Covid.
00:54:24 |
Mon 10 Oct 2022
Elevating Women at Work, with Kristy Wallace
Unequal pay between men and women, transparency at work, and imposter syndrome – what can be done to help women in the workforce break through these barriers.
00:57:09 |
Mon 03 Oct 2022
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Cannabis, with Chris Walsh
The cannabis industry is booming - what happened ... and what comes next?
01:00:56 |
Mon 26 Sep 2022
How Music Plays in Our Brains, with Professor Elizabeth Margulis
What do you get when you assemble a team of diverse talents in music and science to explore how music makes us human?
00:52:42 |
Mon 19 Sep 2022
Mighty Networks, With Silicon Valley Entrepreneur and CEO Gina Bianchini
Who is Gina Bianchini, what is Mighty Networks, and what’s it like to be a female entrepreneur in Silicon Valley in the age of Elizabeth Holmes?
00:52:07 |
Mon 12 Sep 2022
Natalie Tung: Revolutionary for Better High-School Education for Girls
Episode Summary
Boarding school. Enrichment and personal growth experiences. A supportive community. Natalie Tung is creating all of this … for black and brown high school girls in Trenton. The idea…
00:48:58 |
Mon 05 Sep 2022
Marcela Gomez: The Art of Multi-Cultural Life
Hispanic culture in America and how one women figured out how to connect the dots.
01:09:04 |
Mon 29 Aug 2022
The Man With Ten Jobs, with Gautam Mukunda
Episode Summary
A wide-ranging discussion with the multi-talented Gautam Mukunda. Leadership, Theranos, Failure and Learning, Luck, Russia and Ukraine, the Financial Crisis, Inequality, Innovation. …
00:53:45 |
Mon 22 Aug 2022
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