Frontiers

We like to think we’re making decisions, but we are not. We’re often just rationalising pre-existing biases. The decision is already made. Vincent Mak is Professor of Marketing and Decision Sciences and a member of the Senior Leadership Team at Cambridge Judge Business School. Music credit: David Cutter Music / @dcuttermusic Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah Hall is Professor of Geography and Fellow of St John’s College at the University of Cambridge. Professor Hall is a public economic geographer whose work focuses on the uneven impacts of profound economic change, including Brexit, the changing economic position of China internationally, and the rise of finance-led capitalism. Summary Professor Hall discusses the uneven impacts of profound eco...

Alixandra Barasch is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Colorado. Having earned her Ph. D. in Marketing from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, she was previously an Assistant Professor at New York University and a Visiting Associate Professor at INSEAD. Alix studies how new technologies are fundamentally reshaping consumer behaviour and well-being. Summary...

Stefano Puntoni is the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School. Prior to joining Penn, Professor Puntoni was a professor of marketing and head of department at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, in the Netherlands. He holds a PhD in marketing from London Business School and a degree in Statistics and Economics from the University of Padova in his nativ...

Dr. James B. Rieley is an advisor to CEOs and senior leadership teams in both Europe and America. Dr. Rieley, who has an earned doctorate degree in Organisational Effectiveness, additionally has a B.S. in Business Administration, and was the president of a successful plastics manufacturing company for over 20 years. After selling his company in 1987, he began to work with organisations in the...

Sir Geoff Mulgan CBE is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). Prior to that he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation. Between 1997 and 2004, Geoff had roles in the UK government, including director of the Government’s Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister’s office. From 20...

Catherine Barnard is a leading Professor in EU law and Employment law at the University of Cambridge, author of three of the primary textbooks in the field, deputy director of UK in a Changing Europe, a non-partisan think-tank looking at the implications of Brexit and its aftermath. Summary This episode is a wake-up call. It explores the experiences of EU migrant workers in the UK, focusing on the...

Thomas Sampson is a Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. His research studies the impact of globalisation on workers, firms, and productivity. Thomas is also an academic adviser to the Bank of England and an associate at the Centre for Economic Performance, where he has worked extensively on the economic consequences of Brexit. Summary: This conversation is nothing short of a...

Andrew Beggs is a Professor of Cancer Genetics & Surgery at the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, and the Deputy Director of the Birmingham Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre and Theme Lead for Biomarkers and Liquid Biopsy. He is also Head of Somatic Cancer in the Central and South Genomic Medicine Service Alliance and Co-Lead of the Translational Biolog...

Professor Jonathan Portes is one of the UK's leading economists and a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at King's College London. Professor Portes has previously served as chief economist at the Department of Work and Pensions and chief economist at the Cabinet Office. Summary Professor Portes explores the economic impacts of immigration, the misconceptions surrounding it, and the political...

Ioannis Ioannou is one of the world’s leading experts on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. Professor Ioannou regularly publishes in top-tier peer-reviewed academic journals, including Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, and Organization Science. Pro...

Alison Taylor is a Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Stern School of Business and Executive Director of Ethical Systems. Professor Taylor has spent the past two decades consulting with multinational companies on risk, anti-corruption, sustainability, human rights, culture and behavior, stakeholder engagement, ESG, and ethics and compliance – including as a senior advisor at sustainability nonpro...

Anand Menon is a Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at Kings College London, director of the UK in a Changing Europe (an initiative that aims to make the findings of social scientific research available and accessible to all non-academic audiences interested in Brexit, the Brexit process and its implications), an associate fellow of Chatham House and Senior Associate member of...

Michael Haenlein is a leading expert on the impact of new technologies on firms and consumers, a Professor of Marketing at ESCP Business School, and holds Visiting Positions at Kozminski University in Warsaw and Trinity Business School in Dublin. He examines issues such as video gaming, mobile gaming, artificial intelligence, social media, and influencer marketing and has published over 50 ar...

Dr. Felix Gille is a leading expert on trust in the healthcare system and a research scientist at the University of Zurich. Dr. Gille's work is widely published in top academic journals, and he has recently published his first book, What Is Public Trust in the Health System? Summary Dr. Felix Gille discusses the concept of trust and its importance in the healthcare system. He explains that trust i...

Professor Alexander Wagner is one of the world's leading financial economists, a Professor at the Department of Banking and Finance of the University of Zurich (UZH) and a senior chair of the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI). Professor Wagner has taught corporate finance to thousands of students and hundreds of executives, and he has helped shape the governance systems of companies, large and small....

Professor Matthew Grimes is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Futures at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Professor Grimes examines how individuals and organisations create, introduce, and sustain positive social change through entrepreneurship. He’s a member of the Organisational Theory and Information Systems subject group at Cambridge Judge Business School, Academic C...

Professor Thorsten Wuest is a leading expert on Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and Digital Supply Networks and a Professor of Smart Manufacturing at West Virginia University. His research focuses on Smart Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Industry 4.0, Servitization, and Digital Supply Networks. He is globally recognised as one of the 20 most influential professors in smart manufacturing...

Professor Kerstin Alfes is one of the world's leading experts on diversity and inclusion and human resource management, and a Professor of Organisation and Human Resource Management at ESCP Business School. Professor Alfes is one of the most cited researchers in the World (top 2%, according to Stanford), whose work has been published in some of the most respected and widely read academic journals....

Dr. Gordon McGranahan is one of the World's leading urban development scientists with a particular specialism in urbanisation. Gordon has worked with the World Bank, the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Stockholm Environmental Institute, and has published over 200 articles in leading scientific journals. My conversation with Dr. McGranahan covers urbanisation, its history and its future deve...

Professor Florian Lüdeke-Freund is one of the World's leading experts on corporate sustainability management and sustainability entrepreneurship and a Professor of Corporate Sustainability at ESCP Business School. As well as publishing numerous journal articles, books, and book chapters on these topics, Professor Lüdeke-Freund is an Editorial Review Board Member at Organization & Environment,...

Professor Daniel Byman is a globally recognised expert on terrorism, a Professor at Georgetown University, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a senior adviser to the US Department of State on the International Security Advisory Board. His most recent books include Spreading Hate: The Global Rise of White Supremacist Terrorism, A High Price: T...

Professor Mark Maslin is an Earth System Scientist at the University College London, a Royal Society Industrial Fellow and the World's leading sustainability thought leader and influencer. Mark's expertise is in global and regional climatic change, and has published over 175 papers in journals such as Science, Nature and The Lancet. Our conversation delves into Mark's research on climate change an...

Following the last episode's conversation with research scientist Jana Sedlokova, Ian Hallett explores the use of conversational AI in psychotherapy and the factors influencing the adoption of AI-based products. Ian covers the importance of attitudes towards innovation, the impact of socio-demographic factors on AI adoption, the role of familiarity and conformity in driving product adoption, and t...

Jana Sedlakova is a research scientist at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich in Switzerland. Jana's expertise lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human interaction. Our conversation delves into Jana's research on the role of conversational AI in psychotherapy. We begin by laying a foundational understanding of what we mean by conver...