Business Talk

Dr. Heather Cairns-Lee, Affiliate Professor of Leadership and Communication at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland, shares insights from her book Clean Language Interviewing: Principles and Applications for Researchers and Practitioners. The book introduces a powerful method for asking non-leading questions to uncover authentic experiences across research, bus...

Dr. Winnie Jiang, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour and The Goltz Fellow in Business and Society at INSEAD, discusses her research, “Breaking Free or Locking In: How Socially Disadvantaged Individuals Achieve or Reject an Aspired Identity in an Entrepreneurial Context,” which explores how individuals navigate the pursuit or rejection of an aspired identity when it conflicts with thei...

Dr. Teresa Amabile, Edsel Bryant Ford Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School, discusses key ideas from her book Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You, which explores retirement as a major life transition, both exciting and challenging and offers insights that go beyond finances and health, focusing instead on identity, relationships, and creating a fulfilling post-career life. Profess...

Dr. Anup Srivastava, Canada Research Chair in Accounting – Decision-Making and Capital Markets at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, discusses his research titled “Do Digital Technology Firms Earn Excess Profits? Alternative Perspectives.” In this study, he explores whether digital technology firms particularly major tech giants truly earn excess profits, and examines whether...

Dr. Peter Krapp, a Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also affiliated with the Departments of English and Music in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, explores key insights from his acclaimed book Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation. In this episode, he reflects on how pre-internet systems, computer museums, emulation, technostal...

Dr. Federico Pianzola, Assistant Professor in Computational Humanities at the University of Groningen and Director of Studies of the Master’s in Digital Humanities, explores key insights from his acclaimed book Digital Social Reading: Sharing Fiction in the Twenty-First Century, offering a compelling examination of how digital reading platforms are transforming and enriching the ways we read and e...

Dr. Misty Heggeness, Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration and Associate Research Scientist at the Institute for Policy and Social Research at the University of Kansas, delves into the central themes of her widely acclaimed book, Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy. In this episode, she explains how traditional economic measures overlook wom...

Dr. Yangjie Gu, Associate Professor of Marketing at HEC Paris, delves into key insights from her research, “Understanding Consumer Choices Beyond the Purchase: Post-Decision Satisfaction, Preferences, and Hedonic Adaptation.” Drawing on her award-winning research on post-decision satisfaction, hedonic adaptation, and choice closure, she explains why even “perfect” decisions often fail to deliver l...

Professor Bann-Seng Tan, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Ashoka University, shares key insights from his acclaimed book International Aid and Democracy Promotion: Liberalization at the Margins. In his work International Aid and Democracy Promotion: Liberalization at the Margins, he argues that Western donors are far more willing to demand political reforms s...

Dr. A. Susana Ramirez, Associate Professor of Public Health Communication at the University of California, Merced, explores the key themes from her acclaimed book The Handbook of Language in Public Health and Healthcare. Dr. Ramírez highlights how language functions as a social determinant of health, arguing that communication systems not individual patients must change if healthcare is to advance...

Dr. Bella DePaulo explores the central themes of her acclaimed book “Single at Heart: The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life.” Dr. Bella is widely recognized as the leading expert on single life. The Atlantic has described her as “America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience.” Dr. Bella coined the term “single at heart” to describe people who live their best, mo...

Dr. Andrew Hoffman, the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, jointly appointed at the Ross School of Business and the School for Environment and Sustainability shares key insights from his acclaimed book Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market: Correcting the Systemic Failures of Shareholder Capitalism, exploring how business schools can play a...

Prof. Fred Selnes, Professor of Marketing at BI Norwegian Business School, shares key insights from his acclaimed book “Customer Portfolio Management: Creating Value with a Large Leaky Bucket of Customers.” Professor Fred Selnes challenges the traditional belief that firms should focus only on a small base of highly loyal customers. Using the powerful metaphor of a “large leaky bucket,” he shows t...

Prof. Michael, the William and Jacalyn Egan Emeritus Professor of Management and Faculty Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management as well as the McNulty Leadership Program at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, joins us to share powerful insights from his acclaimed book “The Leader’s Checklist: 16 Mission-Critical Principles.” This episode of Business Talk features P...

Professor Andrew Bernstein, a distinguished historian specializing in Japanese and environmental history at Lewis & Clark College, shares key insights from his acclaimed book Fuji: A Mountain in the Making, a sweeping biography of Japan’s iconic mountain that traces its story from the Ice Age to the present. Dr. Bernstein’s conversation reveals Mount Fuji as an active historical agent rather than...

Dr. Amir Grinstein, Associate Professor of Marketing at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, shares insights from his research, “Creating Social Change by Moving from i-level to g-level and s-level Interventions.” His work presents a comprehensive framework that connects individual, group, and system-wide levels of change. The study sheds light on how consumers serve as acti...

Dr. Tima Bansal, Professor of Sustainability and Strategy and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability at the Ivey Business School, Western University, joins us on the Business Talk podcast to discuss her groundbreaking research, “Seeing Beyond the Here and Now: How Corporate Purpose Combats Corporate Myopia.” Corporate purpose emerges as a powerful antidote to organizational myopia...

Dr. Laurie Heller, Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, explores her groundbreaking research, “From Echoes to AI: Translating Human Sound Perception into Technology,” and discusses how insights from human listening are reshaping intelligent audio systems. The episode explores how humans percei...

Dr. Deborah Barnbaum, Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Coordinator of the Minor in Bioethics and Health Humanities at Kent State University, shares key insights from her acclaimed book, “Data Safety Monitoring Boards: A Bioethical Perspective,” illuminating a critical yet often overlooked dimension of bioethics - the ethical challenges involved in monitoring data and safeguarding part...

Dr. Emily Rosado-Solomon, Assistant Professor of Management at Babson College, discusses her groundbreaking research titled “Others Matter When Mothers Return: An Investigation of Relational Movement and Its Role in Post-Maternity Leave Reentry Transitions.” This episode with Dr. Emily Rosado-Solomon delves into how mothers’ workplace relationships shift when they return from maternity leave, a pr...

Dr. Robert Austin, Professor of Information Systems at Ivey Business School and affiliated faculty member at Harvard Medical School, explores critical insights from his seminal work, Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations, a foundational text that examines how performance measurement influences organizational behavior and reveals the often-overlooked risks of measurement dysfunction....

Dr. Santiago Gallino, the Charles W. Evans Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, joins us to discuss his seminal research, “Are Everywhere Stores the New Face of Retail?”, examining how omnichannel retailers can strengthen customer engagement and optimize logistics by leveraging innov...

Prof. Pablo Boczkowski and Dr. Mora Matassi discuss their book “To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media across Nations, Media, and Platforms” and illustrate how systematic comparative research can advance the understanding and impact of social media scholarship. This podcast episode delves into how comparative thinking can transform the study of social media by moving beyond single-country, s...

Dr. Devin Stein, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management at the Culverhouse College of Business, The University of Alabama, presented his research titled “Distributed Knowledge and the Creation of Public Value: Community-Based Organizing and Wildfire Management in Northern California.” This episode examines how community self-organization and local knowledge reduce...

Prof. Yoram (Jerry) Wind, Lauder Professor Emeritus and Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, shares profound insights from his acclaimed book, “Creativity in the Age of AI: Toolkits for the Modern Mind”. This episode with Prof. Yoram (Jerry) Wind delves into how creativity can be cultivated systematically rather than seen as a rare innate gift. He explains that...