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
Reflections on Business, Bernie Madoff, and Donald Trump, with Jim Campbell
From Jim Campbell's start in radio, to his explosive interview with Bernie Madoff, and beyond, Jim has always had a passion for providing unbiased information in a world where facts matter less than …
01:02:56 |
Mon 02 Nov 2020
Judge Fred Block: Politics, Sentencing, and Crime
As the world rages around us it may seem like there is no rule of law to keep us safe but Judge Fred Block provides us with ample evidence to be optimistic about the enduring independence of the Judi…
01:06:32 |
Mon 26 Oct 2020
Kevin Demoff: Talent, Diversity, and COVID in the NFL
Football is synonymous with Sundays in America and the NFL draft has become almost like a celebrity awards show. What makes it so popular? Why have other sports not achieved that status?
01:13:20 |
Mon 19 Oct 2020
Bob Wallace: An Entrepreneur Runs for Mayor
An author, business owner, community leader, father, husband, and now a mayoral candidate, Bob Wallace is a man on a mission to share the good fortunes he has found in life with the people of Baltimo…
00:56:55 |
Mon 12 Oct 2020
The Guggenheim Museum with Curator Megan Fontanella
The Sydcast goes on a road trip to the NY Guggenheim (pre-COVID) to talk to curator Megan Fontanella, who shares her passion for the stories behind the historic artworks in the collection, her journe…
00:57:29 |
Mon 05 Oct 2020
How to Live Longer, with Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian
A cardiologist by trade and a food scientist by necessity, Dr. Mozaffarian appreciates the complex relationship between food and health and the need to make choices based on individual health needs, …
00:56:38 |
Mon 28 Sep 2020
Bill Helman on Facebook, Dartmouth, and Society
Bill Helman sits on the board of directors for some of the most influential institutions that are changing the business landscape and, as a partner at Greylock, he is helping to foster the next gener…
00:52:28 |
Mon 21 Sep 2020
Oliver Kremer: Mission Tacos in New York City
Episode Summary
Listening to Oliver Kremer of Dos Toros Taqueria illustrate the beauty of the burrito, it is easy to understand how he and his brother, Leo, found success bringing Mission-style Mexi…
00:56:35 |
Mon 14 Sep 2020
Shannon Polson: The Story of Grit
Episode Summary
When taking off in an Apache helicopter you turn into the wind and face that wind head-on ... and that is how Shannon Polson takes on life. A fighter pilot, mountain climber, and aut…
00:49:50 |
Mon 07 Sep 2020
Stuart Weitzman: The Man Who Made the $1 Million Shoe
Episode Summary
If Stuart Weitzman - storyteller, entrepreneur, impresario - had a motto it would be “stand on the shoulders of others.” That simple phrase characterizes his approach to business, br…
00:55:18 |
Mon 31 Aug 2020
Ken Shropshire: Sports, Race, and Social Impact
Episode Summary
Ken Shropshire is the master of making lemonade when life hands you lemons. Told by his coach that he would never make it as a professional athlete, Ken took what he knew and became …
00:55:43 |
Mon 24 Aug 2020
Lessons on Life, Entrepreneurship, and Impact with Maynard Webb
Episode Summary
From a young security guard at IBM to a white-hat hacker to a titan of technology in Silicon Valley, Maynard Webb has digitally done it all. Serving on the boards of some of the big…
01:00:23 |
Mon 17 Aug 2020
Rob Tod: The King of Maine Beer
In 1995, Rob Tod poured a Belgian-style white beer into a pint-sized hole in the US craft beer market and sipped his way to success.
00:56:14 |
Mon 10 Aug 2020
Bees, Business, and Well-Being with Entrepreneur Carly Stein
Like bees turning pollen into honey, Carly Stein turned tonsillitis in Tuscany into Beekeepers Naturals, a company with the mission to bring a worldwide natural remedy to the medicine cabinets of Nor…
00:57:47 |
Mon 03 Aug 2020
The Boston Red Sox, with CEO Sam Kennedy
From inside the hallowed walls of Fenway Park, Sam Kennedy shares how a mediocre baseball player from the South End of Boston who dreamt about playing for the Red Sox instead became their President a…
01:01:26 |
Mon 27 Jul 2020
The MacArthur Genius: Musician Mary Halvorson
Experimental musician Mary Halvorson shares her story of how a practical person made the impractical leap to pursue a music career when she met a truly inspiring teacher in college.
00:48:17 |
Mon 20 Jul 2020
Historian Eric Foner on the Modern Legacy of the Civil War, Lincoln, and Reconstruction
Historian and optimist Eric Foner grew up through McCarthyism and the Civil Rights Movement and learned that one of the best ways to interpret history is that no matter how things are there is an opp…
00:57:32 |
Mon 13 Jul 2020
Evan Golub: How Living with Lyme Disease Taught Me That "We Are Not Alone"
Episode Summary
Sometimes Western medicine does not have all the answers. Evan Golub discovered this first hand after seeing over 30 different practitioners and receiving numerous misdiagnoses wh…
00:56:48 |
Mon 06 Jul 2020
Entrepreneurs in Trouble: Fighting Depression and Stress with Cherry Rose Tan
Using what she has learned through personal and shared experiences, Cherry Rose has created a mental health movement in entrepreneurship and her podcast #realtalk is helping others create solid emoti…
01:01:25 |
Mon 29 Jun 2020
Stewart Friedman: How to be a Better Parent
Summary of the Show
With Father's Day (and Mother's Day) just recently celebrated, it seems a good time to talk about parents and their unwavering role as leaders in the household. That's right, le…
00:58:14 |
Mon 22 Jun 2020
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