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
Kate Speer: CEO of the Dogist
Kate Speer is a young survivor of mental illness and depression, and is unflinching in her description of what it did to her and how she’s gotten to the other side. Incredibly, only a few short years…
01:12:43 |
Mon 14 Oct 2019
Mary Lou Aleskie: Where Arts Leadership Comes From
Mary Lou Aleskie, the director of the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, is a one-time accountant who followed her calling to become leader of creative arts organizations at top instit…
01:00:27 |
Mon 07 Oct 2019
Hafiz Shabazz: Master Percussion Teacher with a Story
Hafiz Shabazz is the Director of the World Music Percussion Ensemble, a master teacher to students around the world, and a Phanes of percussion whose work has brought to light everything from how Gha…
01:06:16 |
Mon 30 Sep 2019
Jake Sullivan: Obama, Clinton, and Making America Safe Again
Jake Sullivan has a shocking resumé: negotiated the Iran nuclear, prepared Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama for presidential debates, and brokered cease fires between Israel and Palesitne just to name…
01:20:02 |
Mon 23 Sep 2019
Kikkan Randall: How to Win an Olympic Gold Medal
17 U.S. National titles, 17 U.S. Championships, 16 podiums in the Stage World Cup, five-time Winter Olympian, one Olympic gold medal. That’s cross-country skiing star Kikkan Randall’s career in numbe…
01:09:21 |
Mon 16 Sep 2019
Eric Fossum: The Inventor who Revolutionized the iPhone
You might not have heard Eric Fossum’s name before now, but you use his invention every day. So do billions of people around the world.
The next time you share a photo of your meal on Instagram, wat…
01:14:22 |
Mon 09 Sep 2019
Brandon del Pozo: On the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic
Brandon is not your average cop. He’s Ivy League educated, holds two Masters degrees, and is finishing his PhD in philosophy. And as chief of police in Burlington, VT battling an opioid epidemic, he …
01:07:36 |
Mon 02 Sep 2019
Marc Myers on Journalism and Jazz
What’s it like to make a career talking to the world’s biggest celebrities, artists, and rock stars about their most vulnerable moments? Marc Meyers, the Wall Street Journal’s “Ink Shrink,” does exac…
01:20:34 |
Mon 26 Aug 2019
Warwick Fairfax: The Billionaire Who Lost His Company
Warwick Fairfax is the scion of a long-time family-controlled media empire in Australia once worth billions of dollars, that is no more. And he’s the one most directly responsible for the collapse of…
01:07:36 |
Mon 19 Aug 2019
Luke Peña: Who Decides Who Gets Into Business School?
Who makes admissions decisions at the world’s elite universities? Luke Peña does. He is the Executive Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
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01:26:35 |
Mon 12 Aug 2019
Jen Tietz: A Woman in the Navy
What do an Iraqi prison camp leader, a Naval Officer, a McKinsey consultant, a Tuck Business School graduate, and a single mom by choice all have in common? Meet Jen Tietz.
By the time Jen Tietz …
01:03:22 |
Mon 05 Aug 2019
Rick Greenwald: The Man Who Studies Sport Helmets
To play a sport is to have fun, whether recreationally or professionally. But competition can also drive us to take risks, sometimes with catastrophic consequences. Meet Rick Greenwald, one guy who i…
00:57:02 |
Mon 29 Jul 2019
Sarah Mollo-Christensen: The Book Narrator
Audiobook narrator and pitbull trainer: two careers, one person. How'd that happen?
Sarah Mollo-Christensen is unique. She is a vocal performer in a way many people are familiar, but know very li…
01:05:54 |
Mon 22 Jul 2019
Joanne Conroy: Hospital CEO in America
Doctor, Policy Maker, CEO, and President. These are just some of the titles that Joanne Conroy has held during her medical career. Whether she was working as an anesthesiologist in South Carolina or …
01:18:17 |
Mon 15 Jul 2019
Mark Shapiro: How to Run a MLB Team in a Tough Neighborhood
When you walk into Toronto Blue Jays CEO Mark Shapiro's office, you see white boards with notes and lists on leadership, motivation, and winning. Some courtesy of New Zealand's famed All-Blacks Rugby…
01:15:32 |
Mon 08 Jul 2019
Jarett Berke: From MIlitary Helicopter Pilot to Restauranteur
How, and why, does a military vet flying helicopters in the Middle East transition to owning an iconic diner in rural New England?
If your town or neighborhood has a coffee shop, diner, or local …
01:02:10 |
Mon 01 Jul 2019
Jessica Wolf: How to Create Your Own Brand
You know there’s something to Jessica Wolf when you learn she’s entering Columbia’s Executive MBA program only 5 years after graduating college. Then you discover that she started a company designed …
01:05:17 |
Mon 24 Jun 2019
Bruce Sacerdote: The Economist Who Studies People
How much does parenting make a difference for a kid's success? Does it really matter which college you go to? How can we get more kids to graduate college? These are the questions my guest on The Syd…
01:09:38 |
Mon 17 Jun 2019
Gregory Maguire: Wicked
This is Tony Awards season honoring the best on Broadway, so who better to talk to on The Sydcast then the acclaimed author of Wicked – Gregory Maguire. Listen in as I talk to Gregory about the creat…
01:25:31 |
Mon 10 Jun 2019
Bill Hammond: Master Teacher in Rural New England
I’m sitting down with one of New Hampshire’s most distinguished educators: Bill Hammond. He’s worked in the Hanover-Norwich school system for 36 years as a principal and teacher. He has taught thousa…
01:09:26 |
Mon 03 Jun 2019
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