Business Talk

In this insightful episode of the Business Talk Podcast, Dr. Max H. Bazerman, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School shares transformative lessons from his book, Negotiation: The Game Has Changed. Dr. Bazerman explores how sweeping shifts in the negotiation landscape from the rise of AI and Donald Trump's global trade policies to the dominance of virtua...

In this episode, Dr. Caroline Levander, Vice President for Global Strategy, Carlson Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of English at Rice University, shares transformative insights from her book Invent Ed: How an American Tradition of Innovation Can Transform College Today. Drawing on rich historical examples, including the story of Samuel Morse, a painter who built the first telegraph in...

In this episode of Business Talk, we are joined by Paul Johnson, Provost of The Queen's College, University of Oxford, for a thought-provoking conversation drawn from his acclaimed book, Challenging Inequalities: How We Got Stuck and Where We Go Next. With decades of expertise in economics and public policy, Paul unpacks why inequality - despite decades of awareness and policy intervention, contin...

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Barry Eichengreen, the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, one of the world's foremost authorities on international monetary systems and economic history. Dr. Eichengreen takes us on a sweeping journey through his forthcoming book, Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies f...

Dr. Manoj Thomas, Sabanci Professor of Management & Marketing and Associate Dean of NYC Initiatives at Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, explores how behavioral science shapes business strategy, and why overlooking it can lead to critical strategic missteps that put a company off course. In this engaging episode of Business Talk, host Deepak Bhatt sits down with Dr. Manoj Thomas, Sabanci Pro...

Dr. Frank Liu, Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Western Australia Business School's Department of Accounting and Finance and Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic History (CEH), joins us to discuss his study "Divine Dividends: How Religious Traditions Shape Corporate Payout Policies" - exploring how Buddhist and Taoist influences shape dividend behaviors among Chinese A-...

In her research, "Blind Spot: Integrating Biodiversity into Corporate Risk Management," Dr. Monomita Nandy, Professor in Accounting and Finance at Brunel Business School, Brunel University of London, UK, reveals a critical oversight at the heart of modern corporate strategy, most businesses treat nature as an externality rather than recognizing how deeply their operations, supply chains, and long-...

Dr. Sarah Whitley, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business, joins us to discuss her research, "Positive Emotions During Search Engine Use: How You Feel Impacts What You Search for and Click On." In her research, "Positive Emotions During Search Engine Use: How You Feel Impacts What You Search for and Click On," Dr. Sarah Whitley, along with co-rese...

Dr. Achyuta Adhvaryu, Tata Chancellor's Professor of Economics at the School of Global Policy and Strategy and inaugural Director of the 21st Century India Center at the University of California, San Diego, presented his research on "Platform Work: Evidence from Drivers in India, Indonesia, and Kenya," drawing on surveys and platform data to examine drivers' earnings, costs, and career trajectorie...

In this episode of the Business Talk podcast, Dr. Gopal Naik, Former Professor in the Economics Area and Jal Jeevan Mission Chair in Utility Development & Water Economics at IIM Bangalore, shares compelling insights from his research study, "Impact of the Use of Technology on Student Learning Outcomes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment in India." His groundbreaking tele-education initiative r...

In a thought-provoking conversation on the Business Talk podcast, Dr. Matthew Cronin, Professor of Management at the Costello College of Business, George Mason University, unpacks the transformative ideas behind his acclaimed book The Craft of Creativity, co-authored with Prof. Jeffrey Loewenstein and winner of the 2018 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Associatio...

In this episode of Business Talk, Emeritus Professor Lawrence H. White, an American economist formerly of George Mason University, joins us to discuss the central ideas from his book Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin? He explains what a “monetary standard” means in practice and compares three alternatives, gold, fiat money, and Bitcoin, through a clear lens: how well each system responds to cha...

Dr. Anandasivam Gopal, President’s Chair of Information Systems and Innovation at Nanyang Business School, discusses his research, “Dancing to the #Challenge: The Effect of TikTok on Closing the Artist Gender Gap in the Music Industry.” Professor Anandasivam Gopal explained how TikTok hashtag dance challenges, 30-45 second, easily replicable dance videos tied to a shared hashtag, can create measur...

Dr. Gustav Peebles and Prof. Benjamin Luzzatto discuss their book, “The First and Last Bank: Climate Change, Currency, and a New Carbon Commons,” which presents a bold new approach to currency and community, one designed to help remove carbon from the atmosphere and add a powerful new tool to the fight against climate change. The guests, propose a carbon-based monetary system inspired by the histo...

Dr. Nirajana Mishra, Assistant Professor of Marketing at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, shares insights from her research on how financial stress shapes couples’ willingness to talk about money, often not because conflict is actually happening, but because partners anticipate disagreement, negative emotions, or clashes in money attitudes. Drawing on multiple studies, s...

Dr. Denise M. Rousseau, H.J. Heinz II University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, argues that AI can meaningfully strengthen literature reviews when it is used for the right tasks and governed by clear integrity standards, especially transparency about the evidence base, tool limitations, and the exact process used to assemble and analyze source...

Dr. Raphael Thomadsen, Professor of Marketing and Chair of the Marketing Area at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, shares insights from his research study, “The Impact of Advertising Content on Customer Acquisition and Retention for Subscriptions of Physical Goods: Insights from a Field Experiment.” Dr. Raphael Thomadsen (Olin Business School, Washington University in St. L...

In this episode, host Deepak Bhatt speaks with Dr. Joshua Gans, Jeffrey S. Cole Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, about key ideas from his book The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence and what they mean for organizations and markets. Dr. Gans frames AI primarily as a prediction t...

Dr. Lindsey Cameron, Assistant Professor of Management and Dorinda and Mark Winkelman Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, explores her research in “The Making of the ‘Good Bad’ Job: How Algorithmic Management Manufactures Consent Through Constant and Confined Choices.” Dr. Lindsey Cameron, Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School, Univers...

In this episode of Business Talk, Dr. Denis Shackel, Professor Emeritus of Management Communications at Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada joins Deepak Bhatt to discuss insights from his book Five Seconds at a Time: How Leaders Can Make the Impossible Possible, drawing leadership lessons from a harrowing mountain-climbing tragedy on Mount Ruapehu in New Zealand. He recounts the defin...

Dr. Michael Nagler, Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and a pioneer in the academic study of peacebuilding, shares key insights from his acclaimed book, The Search for a Nonviolent Future. Prof. Nagler argues that modern violence is reinforced by mass media narratives that portray people as separate and competitive, yet he sees soc...

Dr. Ericka Johnson, Deputy Head of Department and Professor of Gender and Society at Linköping University, Sweden, joins us to discuss her fascinating research, “Useful and Transparent Synthetic Data?” Synthetic tabular data is machine-generated, spreadsheet-like data that learns the statistical patterns in a real dataset and then creates new rows that resemble it without copying actual records. I...

Liz Paushter, Executive Director of the Badavas Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning at Bentley University, discusses her fascinating work, “Play-Based Learning and Faculty Development: Transforming Teaching Excellence.” She explains how her play-based approach to faculty development began with a moment of honesty in a department meeting: while faculty worried that students were afraid t...

Dr. Javiera Barandiarán, Associate Professor in the Global Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, shares key insights from her book, “Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium.” In this episode, Dr. Javiera Barandiarán, Associate Professor in the Global Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, unpacks the central arguments of...

Dr. Mark Huselid, Distinguished Professor of Workforce Analytics and Director of the Center for Workforce Analytics at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, shares key insights from his acclaimed books, “The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance.” He explains why many common HR metrics (like time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, and training hours) tend to measure tr...