Business Talk

This Business Talk episode features Dr. Rory Naismith, Professor of Early Medieval English History in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, in a wide-ranging conversation about his book Making Money in the Early Middle Ages. Drawing on his extensive research on coinage, economy and society, Naismith explains how new dis...

In this episode of Business Talk, host Deepak Bhatt sits down with Dr. Leonard Cassuto, Professor of English at Fordham University, to explore his 2024 book Academic Writing as If Readers Matter, published by Rutgers University Press. Drawing on his training at Columbia and Harvard, authorship of more than ten books, and national leadership in graduate education reform through organizations such a...

Prof. Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Chair for Corporate Sustainability at ESCP Business School in Berlin and founding Academic Director of the MSc in Sustainability Entrepreneurship and Innovation, joins us to discuss his book Sustainable Business Model Design: 50 Ways to Innovate for Ecological, Social, and Economic Value, where he and his co-authors outline 50 pattern-based strategies to design sustain...

In a compelling conversation on Business Talk, Dr. Anthony Alexander, Associate Professor in Operations Management at the University of Sussex Business School, explored how today's "new normal" is defined not merely by disruptions, but by their accelerating frequency, from the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19 to geopolitical shocks like the Ukraine war. He challenged the popular narrative that l...

In this episode of Business Talk, we sit down with Professor Carlton F. W. Larson, the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor in Law at the University of California, Davis, whose scholarship in American constitutional law, Anglo-American legal history, and the law of treason has made him one of the country’s foremost authorities on treason and the American founding. Drawing on his distinguished academic...

In this insightful conversation, Dr. Kean Birch, Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy at York University, explores the central ideas behind his book Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism, explaining how modern capitalism is increasingly organized around ownership, control, and the generation of future revenue rather than the simple sale of goods and services....

Dr. Andrew Bertoli, Assistant Professor at IE University in Madrid and Segovia, Spain, joins us to discuss his thought-provoking book, Beyond the Stadium: How Sports Change the World, and to explore the complex ways sports shape politics, society, and global affairs. In this engaging conversation, he challenges the common view of sports as either mere entertainment or an unquestioned force for goo...

In this engaging episode of Business Talk, Professor Lori Ringhand, J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, explores the core ideas from her book, We the Voters: The Constitutional Choices That Shape America's Elections. She traces how the Constitution's original, narrow definition of "We the People" has been exp...

We are delighted to welcome Dr. David Krackhardt, Professor of Organizations and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, with a joint appointment at the Tepper School of Business, as he joins us to explore the key insights from his research, 'Online Knowledge Communities: Breaking or Sustaining Knowledge Silos?' In this engaging episode...

Professor Elisa Operti, Professor of Strategy at ESSEC Business School, France, shares key insights from her groundbreaking research, "Recessions, Institutions, and Regional Exploration." In her research, Professor Elisa Operti tackles a fundamental puzzle in innovation literature, why do some of the most groundbreaking technologies, from radar to jet propulsion, emerge during or right after econo...

Dr. Helen Sword, Emeritus Professor of Humanities at the University of Auckland, joins us to discuss her book Writing with Pleasure, an essential guide to cultivating joy in both professional and personal writing. In this episode of Business Talk, we sit down with Dr. Helen Sword, Emeritus Professor of Humanities at the University of Auckland, to explore her groundbreaking book Writing with Pleasu...

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Marianne Lewis, Dean and Professor of Management at the Carl H. Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati, as she joins us to explore the key insights from her compelling research, "From a Label to a Metatheory of Paradox: If We Change the Way We Look at Things, the Things We Look at Change." In this episode of Business Talk, Dr. Marianne W. Lewis takes...

Dr. Alan Scheller-Wolf, the Richard M. Cyert Professor of Operations Management at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, joins us to unpack the key insights from his research, 'When Does Partial Priority Improve Revenue?', a study developed in collaboration with Dr. Mor Harchol-Balter, Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and Zhouzi Li, doctoral researc...

Joining us today is Dr. Radhika Desai, Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba, Canada, to unpack the core ideas from her acclaimed book, Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization, and Empire. In this episode of Business Talk, Dr. Radhika Desai takes us on an intellectually rigorous journey...

In this episode of Business Talk, we sit down with Dr. Allison Elias, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, to unpack one of the most thought-provoking questions in the history of women and work: did corporate America's embrace of feminism truly liberate women, or did it quietly divide them? Drawing from her acclaimed book, The Ri...

Joining us today is Dr. Gary Young, Director of the Northeastern University Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research and Professor of Strategic Management and Healthcare Systems, to explore the bold ideas shaping his acclaimed book, The Healthcare Professional Workforce: Understanding Human Capital in a Changing Industry. The U.S. healthcare system is undergoing a seismic transformation, a...

Dr. Christian Borch, Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, joins us to discuss his book Trading Beyond Understanding: Machine Learning, Risk, and Markets. Drawing on over a decade of rigorous fieldwork, he unpacks how machine learning is fundamentally reshaping financial markets, moving trading away from human expertise and toward autonomous, self-learning systems. In this episod...

What if the idea of a mind locked away inside the skull, invisible, isolated, and separate from the world, is not just philosophically flawed, but fundamentally wrong? In this episode of Business Talk, Dr. Anthony Chemero, University Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Cincinnati, takes us on a profound journey into embodied cognitive science through...

In this episode of Business Talk, we welcome Dr. John Colin Mutter, Professor at Columbia University with dual appointments in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), to explore the core ideas from his acclaimed book, Climate Change Science: A Primer for Sustainable Development. Written to bridge the gap between climate science...

In this episode of Business Talk, Dr. Dana Alden, William R. Johnson, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the Shidler College of Business, University of Hawai'i, shares compelling insights from his research on Green by Design: The Psychology, Politics, and Practice of Sustainable Marketing. Drawing on 45 in-depth interviews with senior brand managers at leading FMCG companies, Dr. Alden un...

In this episode of Business Talk, Dr. Martie-Louise Verreynne, Professor of Innovation and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Queensland, explores a question that lies at the heart of university–business partnerships: not whether small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are willing to collaborate with universities, but whether they are truly rea...

Dr. Dawna Ballard, Professor of Organizational Communication and Technology in the Department of Communication Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, discusses her book Time by Design: How Communicating Slow Allows Us to Go Fast, exploring how individuals, teams, and organizations can intentionally communicate more slowly to achieve faster and more meaningful outcomes, and how time itself c...

In this episode of Business Talk, Professor Kimberly Kay Hoang, Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and award-winning author of Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets, offers a revealing look into the hidden architecture of global finance. Drawing on her groundbreaking research, she unpacks how modern capitalism is organized not through firms or nation-sta...

Dr. Thomas Beamish, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis, joins us to discuss his book Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis, a compelling account of one of the largest oil spills in U.S. history, which unfolded quietly beneath California's Guadalupe Dunes for nearly four decades, drawing remarkably little public attention compared to high-profile disaster...

What does it truly mean to nudge someone, to guide behavior without crossing into manipulation? In this episode of Business Talk, we sit down with Dr. Riccardo Viale, Full Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Cognitive Economics at the University of Milan-Bicocca and LUISS, to explore the core ideas from his book Nudging. Drawing on Herbert Simon's foundational concept of bounded rationality, Dr....