Business Talk

Dr. David Smith, Professor of Practice and Co-Director of the Gender & Work Initiative at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, unpacks the key ideas from his book Fair Share: How Men and Women Can Create a More Equitable Workplace Together, showing what a more equitable workplace looks like and how each of us can help build it. Dr. David Smith’s journey into gender equity began with his and his wi...

Dr. Duygu Biricik Gulseren is an Associate Professor at York University’s School of Human Resource Management, whose work sits at the intersection of psychology and organizational science. Her research examines how leadership shapes employee health, well-being, and safety, with a particular emphasis on chronic pain and invisible disabilities in the workplace. In this episode, she discusses her lan...

Dr. James Bort, Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business, shares key insights from his research publication, “A Theory of the Start-Up Workforce.” Professor Bort explains how early startup employees don’t just follow a founder’s vision, they actively co-create the company’s opportunities, culture, and narrative. He shows how ambiguo...

Dr. Matthew Rubery, a Professor of Modern Literature at Queen Mary University of London and author of several major works including Reader’s Block: A History of Reading Differences, discussed how reading is not a single uniform activity but a diverse set of practices shaped by neurological and experiential differences. Drawing on cases such as stroke survivor Howard Engel, atypical readers like Ki...

In this conversation, host Deepak Bhatt speaks with Professor Yosef Grodzinsky, a leading neuro-linguist and brain scientist, about his book How Deeply Human Is Language? Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy. They revisit the so-called Chomsky–Hinton “debate,” explore language as a uniquely human capacity, and examine evidence from aphasia, logic, and neurosurgery to argue that the brain’s langu...

In this episode of Business Talk, host Deepak Bhatt sits down with Dr. M. S. Krishnan, Accenture Professor of Computer Information Systems and Professor of Technology and Operations at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, for a rich, wide-ranging conversation centered on the ideas in his landmark book, The New Age of Innovation: Driving Co-Created Value Through Global Ne...

In this episode of Business Talk, Dr. Raj Sharman, Professor of Management Science and Systems at the School of Management, University at Buffalo, and a recipient of National Science Foundation grants, takes us deep into the world of digital resilience and disaster response. Drawing from decades of research spanning extreme event management, health information technology, and information assurance...

What does it really mean to have rights in a healthcare system that wasn't built to protect them? In this episode of Business Talk, Deepak sits down with Dr. Anna Kirkland, the Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan, to explore her groundbreaking book, Health Care Civil Rights: How Discrimination Law Fails...

What if the greatest ideas shaping our future are being overlooked, simply because of who proposed them? Dr. Michaël Bikard, Associate Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, has spent years researching exactly this question. In a landmark study conducted with his colleague Isabel Fernandez-Mateo of London Business School, Prof. Bikard examined how gender shapes which scientific ideas gain technological...

Prof. Solène Delecourt, a faculty member in the Management of Organizations and Entrepreneurship & Innovation groups at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, shared key insights from her research on "Age and Gender Distortion in Online Media and Large Language Models." In this episode of Business Talk, host Deepak Bhatt sits down with Prof. Solène Delecourt, a faculty me...

In this episode of Business Talk, host Deepak Bhatt sits down with Dr. Aparna Joshi, Professor of Management and Organizations at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Fellow of the Academy of Management, and recipient of the 2025 Academy of Management General Impact Award, to explore her landmark paper, "An Integrative Conceptual Review of Gender Bias in Leader Evaluatio...

In this episode of Business Talk, we sit down with Dr. Adam J. Berinsky, Mitsui Professor of Political Science at MIT and one of the foremost scholars on public opinion and political behavior, to explore the unsettling world of political misinformation. Drawing from his book Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It (Princeton University Press), Dr. Berinsky unpacks why fa...

Dr. Jessica Green, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, with cross-appointments at the School of Environment and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, shares insights from her book Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix Them, a courageous and incisive examination of the critical gaps in global climate governance and t...

In this episode, Dr. Koen Pauwels, Distinguished Professor of Marketing at Northeastern University, unpacks the central ideas from his book It's Not the Size of the Data, It's How You Use It: Smarter Marketing with Analytics and Dashboards. Drawing on decades of academic research and real-world consulting experience, Dr. Pauwels challenges the widespread belief that more data automatically leads t...

What does it truly mean to be anonymous in the digital age, and who gets to decide? In this thought-provoking episode of Business Talk, Dr. Hector Amaya, Professor of Communication at the University of Southern California Annenberg, unpacks his compelling new book, The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification. Drawing on vivid real-world cases, from Lucy, the courageous anonymous b...

Joining us today is Dr. Sven Nyholm, Professor of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Munich and Principal Investigator for AI Ethics at the Munich Center for Machine Learning, who takes us on a fascinating journey deep into the heart of his compelling book, The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction. In this thought-provoking episode of Business Tal...

In this compelling episode of Business Talk, Dr. C.B. Bhattacharya, H.J. Zoffer Chair in Sustainability and Ethics at the University of Pittsburgh's Katz Graduate School of Business and recipient of the American Marketing Association's Lifetime Achievement Award (2026), draws on his landmark research across 1,600+ employees to reveal how a company's sense of purpose directly shapes employee sustai...

Dr. Ismael Sanz, Full Professor in the Department of Applied Economics I at Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE), and Research Associate at FUNCAS, shares his insights on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Computer-Assisted Learning and AI-Guided Tutors. Artificial intelligence holds remarkable pr...

In this episode of Business Talk, Dr. Manashi Ray, Professor of Sociology at West Virginia State University, unpacks the bold ideas at the heart of her recent book, Becoming Boundless: Indian Transnational Entrepreneurs in the Global Economy, published by Stanford University Press. Drawing on a decade-long ethnographic study conducted between 2007 and 2018, Dr. Ray explores the journeys of 60 Indi...

In an age where algorithms and big data dominate decision-making, what truly sets humans apart is not the volume of data we can process, but the mental models, or frames, we use to make sense of the world. In this episode of Business Talk, Dr. Francis de Véricourt, Professor of Management Science at ESMT Berlin and co-author of Framers: Make Better Decisions in the Age of Big Data (Penguin Random...

In this episode of Business Talk, Dr. Per Espen Stoknes, psychologist, economist, serial entrepreneur, and Associate Professor at BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, unpacks the central argument of his book Tomorrow's Economy (MIT Press): that green growth is not only possible, but measurable, actionable, and urgently necessary. At the heart of his framework is a sharp distinction between healthy...

On this episode of Business Talk, we are joined by Dr. Barry M. Katz, Professor of Design at California College of the Arts and adjunct professor at Stanford University; Schirin Lucie Richter, design strategist and senior partner at Future Medical Systems; and Svava María Atladóttir, Chief Transformation Officer at Landspítali University Hospital and Special Advisor at Iceland’s Ministry of Health...

Dr. Philippe Huneman is a French philosopher and research director at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated with Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, whose recent work examines how predictive algorithms are reshaping identity, knowledge, and democracy in the digital age. In this conversation, drawin...

In this episode of Business Talk, we sit down with Dr. R. Edward Freeman of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, a pioneer of stakeholder theory, to delve into his award-winning book Defeating Dengue: A Multistakeholder Approach to Problem Solving, co-authored with Andrew Sell. Drawing on a remarkable public health project in Indonesia, Dr. Freeman unpacks how a breakthrough Wolba...

Dr. Eugenio Proto, Alec Cairncross Chair of Applied Economics and Econometrics at the University of Glasgow’s Adam Smith Business School, unpacks fascinating insights from his research, showing how personality traits, cognitive ability, and emotional states subtly shape the economic and social decisions that define our lives. Tracing his journey from traditional models to behavioral complexity, Pr...