Business Talk

Professor Sergei Guriev, Dean of London Business School, discusses his research, Political Information and Network Effects, which explores why political campaigns can sometimes produce outcomes contrary to their original intentions. Professor Sergei Guriev, Dean of London Business School, presents groundbreaking research on how political information campaigns can unexpectedly backfire through soci...

Professor Patrick Barwise, Emeritus Professor of Management and Marketing at London Business School, joins us to discuss his influential book Simply Better: Winning and Keeping Customers by Delivering What Matters Most, which challenges much of today’s conventional marketing wisdom. Drawing on rich evidence from companies like Toyota, Procter & Gamble, and Orange, he explains why customers rarely...

Dr. Timothy Fort, Eveleigh Professor of Business Ethics at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, discusses the central ideas from his acclaimed book The Sincerity Edge: How Ethical Leaders Build Dynamic Businesses. Dr. Timothy L. Fort, Eveleigh Professor of Business Ethics at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, delves into the core ideas of The Sincerity Edge by showing how e...

Dr. David De Cremer, Professor of Management and Technology and Dunton Family Dean at Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business, joins us to explore the key insights from his acclaimed book The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work. In this conversation, he explains why 80–90 percent of AI initiatives fail, what it really means for leaders to become AI s...

Dr. John Quiggin, Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland, discusses the core insights from his acclaimed book Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well and Why They Can Fail So Badly. Dr. John Quiggin, Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland, joins The Business Talk podcast to unpack the big ideas from his book Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So W...

Dr. Isabelle Solal, Assistant Professor in the Management Department at ESSEC Business School, discusses her research titled “Does Investor Gender Matter for the Success of Female Entrepreneurs? Gender Homophily and the Stigma of Incompetence in Entrepreneurial Finance.” Dr. Isabelle Solal’s research disrupts the belief that venture capital is a pure meritocracy by showing how gendered perceptions...

Dr. Lindy Greer, Professor of Management and Organizations at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Faculty Director of the Sanger Leadership Center at the University of Michigan, shares key insights from her acclaimed research, “Team Hierarchical Adaptability: Benefits for Team Coordination and Performance.” In this conversation, Dr. Lindy Greer unpacks her research on team hierarchical adap...

Dr. Isabel Fernandez-Mateo, Adecco Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School, shares valuable insights from her acclaimed research, “Unequal in the Spotlight: Gender Differences in How Serving on Prominent Firms Affects Directors’ New Board Appointments.” Drawing on a rich dataset of FTSE 100 boards and in-depth interviews, this research uncovers a paradox at the very to...

In this conversation, Dr. Felipe Csaszar, Alexander M. Nicholson Professor and Chair of the Strategy Area at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, outlines how artificial intelligence is reshaping the foundations and practice of strategy. Drawing on themes from his co-edited Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Strategy, he explains how AI challenges the traditional assumption o...

Dr. Anita Williams Woolley, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, shares key insights from her research titled “COHUMAIN: Building the Socio-Cognitive Architecture of Collective Human–Machine Intelligence.” In this conversation, Professor Woolley, delves into “co-human” systems-integrated configurations of humans and machines des...

Dr. Tom Williams, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines and Director of the Mines Interactive Robotics Research Lab, explores how robots can either reinforce or resist existing power structures in his book ‘Degrees of Freedom: On Robotics and Social Justice’. Drawing on history, he shows how mainstream “white patriarchal” robot imaginaries, rooted in post-Civil War U....

Dr. Michelangelo Rossi, Associate Professor of Marketing at HEC Paris, shares key insights from his acclaimed research titled “Quality Disclosures and Disappointment: Evidence from the Academy Nominations.” Dr. Michelangelo Rossi’s research uncovers a counterintuitive insight: prestigious quality signals like Oscar nominations can actually reduce audience satisfaction by inflating expectations bey...

Dr. Marybeth Gasman, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education, Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Education, draws on her award-winning book Doing the Right Thing: How Colleges and Universities Can Undo Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring to expose how everyday practices - overreliance on elite networks, narrow notions of “pres...

This episode of “The Business Talk” with Dr. Barbara Kellerman offered a rich, systems-level view of leadership and followership, connecting her decades of scholarship to today’s turbulent political and organizational realities. Drawing on her work on bad leadership, the erosion of traditional authority, and the growing power and responsibility of followers, she argued that leadership must always...

Dr. Anne Trumbore, Chief Digital Learning Officer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, joins The Business Talk podcast to discuss her acclaimed book ‘The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology’, published by Princeton University Press. Drawing on pioneering roles at Coursera, NovoEd, Stanford Online, and as the founding leader of Wharton Online at the...

Dr. Jérôme Barthélemy, Professor of Strategy and Management at ESSEC Business School, challenges widely held assumptions about how strategy and innovation really work, drawing on research, vivid cases, and contrarian examples from his book Myths of Strategy. In this conversation, he shows that breakthrough ideas often come from recombining existing elements rather than chasing the latest technolog...

Dr. Abigail R. Hall, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Tampa, unpacks the themes of her book How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite, a satirical yet fully factual examination of the modern U.S. national security state and military industrial complex. Drawing on case studies from the Iraq War to contemporary sports culture, she shows how careful...

Professor Douglas Comer, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, delves into the fascinating insights from his acclaimed work, The Cloud Computing Book: The Future of Computing Explained. This episode features an in-depth conversation between host Deepak Bhatt and Professor Douglas Comer, a distinguished computer scientist from Purdue University and a pioneering figure in...

Dr. Paul Seabright, Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics, joined the Business Talk podcast to discuss his book The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People and his research on religious movements as economic platforms that compete for members and resources while providing vital services such as education, marriage facilitation, financial support, an...

Dr. Jonathan S. Feinstein, John G. Searle Professor of Economics and Management at the Yale School of Management, joined host Deepak on the Business Talk podcast to explore ideas from his book Creativity in Large-Scale Contexts: Guiding Creative Engagement and Exploration, published by Stanford University Press. Drawing on his interdisciplinary background in economics, knowledge representation, an...

Dr. Christopher Koliba, the Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, Policy, and Governance at the University of Kansas, explains how contemporary public administration increasingly operates through governance networks rather than isolated agencies, with multiple public, private, and nonprofit actors exchanging resources, information, and political power across interconnect...

In this episode of the Business Talk podcast, host Deepak Bhatt speaks with Professor Joseph Zeira of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem about his book The Israeli Economy: A Story of Success and Costs. Drawing on Israel’s unique history, Professor Zeira explains how rapid growth from 1922 to 1972 was driven by external financing through immigrant capital, German reparations, and large-scale publi...

Dr. Nina Bandelj, Chancellor's Professor of Sociology and Campus Equity Advisor at the University of California, Irvine, shares key insights from her latest book Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting, exploring what happens when children become investment projects and parenting transforms into exhausting labor. In her latest book “Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Par...

Dr. Tirthankar Roy, Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, joins us to share key insights from his acclaimed book, A Business History of India: Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism from 1700. In this illuminating episode of Business Talk, Prof. Tirthankar Roy, takes us on a sweeping 300-year journey through India's entrepreneurial past. Drawing...

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...