Business Talk

Dr. Fiona Denney, Professor of Leadership and Business Education at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London, brings nearly three decades of experience in UK higher education to her exploration of leadership in the “third space” of universities. In this conversation, she delves into her research, “Working Thematically: Changing the Path to Leadership for the Third Space,” which examines hy...

Dr. Jianyun (J.Y.) Tang, Professor of Strategic Management at the Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University, joins us to explore his thought-provoking research, “Disentangling the Leadership Theory Jungle: A Reconciliation of Bright and Dark Side Leadership Theories.” Leadership theory today often feels like a dense jungle, with multiple overlapping concepts and an overly idealistic...

In this episode of Business Talk, Dr. John H. Cochrane and Dr. Klaus Masuch unpack the core arguments from their book Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro, offering a clear-eyed assessment of the Euro’s original design, its structural vulnerabilities, and the unintended consequences of repeated crisis interventions. Drawing on firsthand experience with Eurozone crises, they...

Dr. Valérie Gauthier, Associate Professor of Languages and Cultures at HEC Paris, presents a compelling vision of relational leadership grounded in her Savoir-Relier methodology. She argues that without relationships, there is no leadership, and that effective leaders must be genuine, generous, and generative, building trust, creating safe spaces, and aligning performance with happiness. Drawing o...

Dr. Meg Brindle, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, joins the Business Talk podcast to discuss her book Social Entrepreneurship for Development: A Business Model, where she draws on over 25 years of academic and field experience in East Africa to explain a practical six-step intellectual property–driven business model that helps producers of distinctive products li...

Dr. Matt Grossmann, Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR) and Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University, joins us to unpack the central ideas from his book, “Artists of the Possible: Governing Networks and American Policy Change since 1945.” This episode explores how American policy really changes, highlighting that it is driven less by mass publ...

Dr. Gervase Bushe, Professor of Leadership and Organization Development at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business, joined the Business Talk podcast to explore how generative change can transform organizations facing complex, deeply entrenched challenges. Drawing on his acclaimed book The Dynamics of Generative Change and a vivid case from a large construction supply organization, he e...

Dr. Brandon Szerwo and Dr. Amy Sheneman join us to discuss their coauthored study, “Does Gender Composition of Audit Teams Matter? An Examination of Audit Quality and Audit Cost.” In this episode, Dr. Brandon Szerwo and Dr. Amy Sheneman unpack their study on how the gender composition of audit teams shapes both audit quality and audit cost. Drawing on new data sources that make the audit workforce...

Dr. Hayley Blunden, Assistant Professor of Management at American University’s Kogod School of Business, joined the Business Talk podcast to share insights from her research, “Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice.” In the conversation, she explains that workplace advice exchanges are not just about information quality, but also about the relationship dynamics they create and s...

Dr. Orly Sade, Dean of the Hebrew University Business School, Albertson-Waltuch Chair, and Professor of Finance, shares key insights from her renowned research, “Using AI and Behavioral Finance to Cope with Limited Attention and Reduce Overdraft Fees.” In this episode, Dr. Orly Sade presents her pioneering research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and behavioral finance, conducted in...

Professor Sergei Guriev, Dean of London Business School, discusses his research, Political Information and Network Effects, which explores why political campaigns can sometimes produce outcomes contrary to their original intentions. Professor Sergei Guriev, Dean of London Business School, presents groundbreaking research on how political information campaigns can unexpectedly backfire through soci...

Professor Patrick Barwise, Emeritus Professor of Management and Marketing at London Business School, joins us to discuss his influential book Simply Better: Winning and Keeping Customers by Delivering What Matters Most, which challenges much of today’s conventional marketing wisdom. Drawing on rich evidence from companies like Toyota, Procter & Gamble, and Orange, he explains why customers rarely...

Dr. Timothy Fort, Eveleigh Professor of Business Ethics at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, discusses the central ideas from his acclaimed book The Sincerity Edge: How Ethical Leaders Build Dynamic Businesses. Dr. Timothy L. Fort, Eveleigh Professor of Business Ethics at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, delves into the core ideas of The Sincerity Edge by showing how e...

Dr. David De Cremer, Professor of Management and Technology and Dunton Family Dean at Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business, joins us to explore the key insights from his acclaimed book The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work. In this conversation, he explains why 80–90 percent of AI initiatives fail, what it really means for leaders to become AI s...

Dr. John Quiggin, Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland, discusses the core insights from his acclaimed book Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well and Why They Can Fail So Badly. Dr. John Quiggin, Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland, joins The Business Talk podcast to unpack the big ideas from his book Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So W...

Dr. Isabelle Solal, Assistant Professor in the Management Department at ESSEC Business School, discusses her research titled “Does Investor Gender Matter for the Success of Female Entrepreneurs? Gender Homophily and the Stigma of Incompetence in Entrepreneurial Finance.” Dr. Isabelle Solal’s research disrupts the belief that venture capital is a pure meritocracy by showing how gendered perceptions...

Dr. Lindy Greer, Professor of Management and Organizations at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Faculty Director of the Sanger Leadership Center at the University of Michigan, shares key insights from her acclaimed research, “Team Hierarchical Adaptability: Benefits for Team Coordination and Performance.” In this conversation, Dr. Lindy Greer unpacks her research on team hierarchical adap...

Dr. Isabel Fernandez-Mateo, Adecco Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School, shares valuable insights from her acclaimed research, “Unequal in the Spotlight: Gender Differences in How Serving on Prominent Firms Affects Directors’ New Board Appointments.” Drawing on a rich dataset of FTSE 100 boards and in-depth interviews, this research uncovers a paradox at the very to...

In this conversation, Dr. Felipe Csaszar, Alexander M. Nicholson Professor and Chair of the Strategy Area at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, outlines how artificial intelligence is reshaping the foundations and practice of strategy. Drawing on themes from his co-edited Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Strategy, he explains how AI challenges the traditional assumption o...

Dr. Anita Williams Woolley, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, shares key insights from her research titled “COHUMAIN: Building the Socio-Cognitive Architecture of Collective Human–Machine Intelligence.” In this conversation, Professor Woolley, delves into “co-human” systems-integrated configurations of humans and machines des...

Dr. Tom Williams, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines and Director of the Mines Interactive Robotics Research Lab, explores how robots can either reinforce or resist existing power structures in his book ‘Degrees of Freedom: On Robotics and Social Justice’. Drawing on history, he shows how mainstream “white patriarchal” robot imaginaries, rooted in post-Civil War U....

Dr. Michelangelo Rossi, Associate Professor of Marketing at HEC Paris, shares key insights from his acclaimed research titled “Quality Disclosures and Disappointment: Evidence from the Academy Nominations.” Dr. Michelangelo Rossi’s research uncovers a counterintuitive insight: prestigious quality signals like Oscar nominations can actually reduce audience satisfaction by inflating expectations bey...

Dr. Marybeth Gasman, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education, Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Education, draws on her award-winning book Doing the Right Thing: How Colleges and Universities Can Undo Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring to expose how everyday practices - overreliance on elite networks, narrow notions of “pres...

This episode of “The Business Talk” with Dr. Barbara Kellerman offered a rich, systems-level view of leadership and followership, connecting her decades of scholarship to today’s turbulent political and organizational realities. Drawing on her work on bad leadership, the erosion of traditional authority, and the growing power and responsibility of followers, she argued that leadership must always...

Dr. Anne Trumbore, Chief Digital Learning Officer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, joins The Business Talk podcast to discuss her acclaimed book ‘The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology’, published by Princeton University Press. Drawing on pioneering roles at Coursera, NovoEd, Stanford Online, and as the founding leader of Wharton Online at the...