Business Talk

Dr. Jules van Binsbergen, Lauder Professor and Anthony L. Davis Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, shares key insights from his research, “The Impact of Impact Investing.” The guest argue that ESG-focused impact investing, especially through divestment, has very limited ability to change firms’ real economic behavi...

Dr. Martha Olney, Teaching Professor Emerita in the Economics Department at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses key insights from her acclaimed book “Inflation”, an engaging and accessible exploration of the forces behind rising prices and the policies that can help bring the cost of living under control. Business Talk with Dr. Martha L. Olney explores what inflation is, why it surge...

Dr. Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, shares key insights from his research, “On the Need for Digital Regulators.” Dr. Coglianese argues that the digital era demands a dual approach to governance: we need both regulators of digital technologies and...

Dr. Michael Brimm, Emeritus Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, shares key insights from his research, “From the Kitchen to the Boardroom: Leadership and Innovation Lessons from French Haute Cuisine.” The podcast argues that three-star Michelin chefs exemplify an “artist-leader” model that offers powerful lessons for corporate leadership by prioritizing craft, quality, and purpose ove...

Dr. Baruch Fischhoff, Howard Heinz University Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and the Institute for Strategy & Technology at Carnegie Mellon University, joins us to share key insights from his influential book, “Decisions: Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard Choices.” In this conversation, Dr. Baruch Fischhoff unpacks why hard decisions feel so overwhelming, hig...

Dr. Charlie Kurth, Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University, shares insights from his widely acclaimed book, “The Anxious Mind: An Investigation into the Varieties and Virtues of Anxiety”, published by The MIT Press. Anxiety emerges in this document as a nuanced, even constructive, emotion rather than a defect to be eradicated. It is described as a biocognitive state that combines hardwired b...

Dr. Hemant Kakkar, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Indian School of Business (ISB), shares key insights from his research, “To Give a Fish or to Teach How to Fish: Examining Leaders’ Autonomy and Dependency Helping Behaviors,” highlighting how leaders navigate the balance between enabling independence and offering direct support. The main points are: • The research distingui...

Dr. Christian Terwiesch, the Andrew M. Heller Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Co-Director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, and faculty member at the Perelman School of Medicine, shares insights from his widely acclaimed book, Connected Strategy: Building Continuous Customer Relationships for Competitive Advantage. Connected Strategy explores how o...

Dr. Barbara Larson, Executive Professor of Management at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business and a leading authority on remote and hybrid work, digital transformation, and the human side of technology, shares key insights from her acclaimed book, “Remote and Hybrid Work: What Everyone Needs to Know”. This episode highlights Dr. Barbara Larson’s core message that effective re...

Dr. Douglas Guilbeault, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Spence Faculty Scholar for the 2025–2026 academic year at Stanford Graduate School of Business, shares key insights from his research, “Blood Is Red, Math Is Blue: Does AI See Colors Like Me and You?” Dr. Douglas Guilbeault’s study, “Blood Is Red, Math Is Blue: Does AI See Colors Like Me and You?”, investigates whether AI s...

Dr. Mitchell Orenstein, Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, shares insights from his acclaimed book The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War. Hybrid warfare is described as a blended strategy where states mix military force with cyberattacks, disinformation,...

Dr. Thomas Kolditz, a retired Army Brigadier General, founding Director of the Ann & John Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University, and former head of the Leadership Development Program at the Yale School of Management, now leads Saxon Castle LLC, a leadership coaching and development consultancy, and discusses key lessons from his acclaimed book In Extremis Leadership: Leading As If You...

Dr. Michael Kirchhoff, Associate Professor in the School of Liberal Arts at the University of Wollongong, Australia, discusses his groundbreaking book, “The Idealized Mind: From Model-Based Science to Cognitive Science.” In this conversation, Dr. Kirchhoff shares key insights from his work that challenge our conventional understanding of cognitive science, exploring how idealization and modeling s...

Dr. Sara Dolnicar, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) and Austrian behavioural scientist, is a Research Professor of Tourism at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. In this episode, she discusses her research “Sharing economy, collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer accommodation or trading of space?” which examines how sharing economy platforms suc...

Dr. Denish Shah, Kenneth L. Bernhardt Distinguished Department Chair and Barbara and Elmer Sunday Professor of Marketing at the Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, discusses his groundbreaking research on a question vital to every business leader: From Data to Dollars - Linking Marketing Strategy to Financial Performance. The episode explains that marketing often relies on vagu...

Dr. Peter Cappelli, one of the world’s foremost experts on human resources and workforce management, joins as the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School and Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources, sharing key insights from his acclaimed book Our Least Important Asset: Why the Relentless Focus on Finance and Accounting is Bad for Business and Employees, which chall...

Prof. Cynthia Clark, John W. Poduska Professor of Governance and Founding Director of the Harold S. Geneen Institute of Corporate Governance at Bentley University, shares insights from her acclaimed book Giving Voice to Values in the Boardroom. Dr. Cynthia Clark’s Giving Voice to Values in the Boardroom equips directors with a practical roadmap for acting on their ethics in the face of real boardr...

Dr. Gidon Eshel, Research Professor of Environmental Physics at Bard College, shares expert insights from his newly published book, "Planetary Eating: The Hidden Links between Your Plate and Our Cosmic Neighborhood," exploring how dietary choices shape both personal health and planetary well-being. Human diets exert an outsized influence on planetary health because agriculture dominates global lan...

Roland Wyn Jones, Senior Director of Communications Content in the Marketing and Communications division at Columbia Business School, shares key insights from his work titled “From Newsroom to Boardroom: Crafting Business Narratives in the Digital Age.” Roland Wyn Jones leads content creation and social media at Columbia Business School, using a multi-platform strategy to share academic research w...

Dr. Michel Tuan Pham, Kravis Professor of Business and Chair of the Marketing Division at Columbia Business School, shares key insights from his research, “The Power of Feelings: How Emotions Shape Consumer and Executive Decision-Making.” Dr. Michel Tuan Pham identifies four main sources of emotions in decision-making: integral (from the object itself), incidental (from unrelated moods), anticipat...

Professor David Baker, Director at Baker Consulting, Principal and Chief Executive of Plymouth Marjon University, and Deputy Chair of the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee, along with Dr. Lucy Ellis, Associate at David Baker Consulting and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, discuss pivotal insights from their edited volume, "Libraries, Digital Information, and COVID: Prac...

Dr. Anita Basalingappa, Professor of Marketing and Chairperson of Online Programs at MICA, India, shares insights from her research, "From Classrooms to Clicks: How Online Learning Shapes Strategic Marketing Leaders." Dr. Anita Basalingappa’s research highlights how online executive programs in marketing provide unique advantages, equipping leaders with time optimization skills and the ability to...

Dr. Jennifer Clapp, Tier I Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability and Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo, joins us to discuss the critical themes from her new book Titans of Industrial Agriculture, which examines how corporate consolidation has transformed the global farm sector and why it matters. Corporate...

Dr. Andrea Gregg, Director of Learning Experience Design and Associate Research Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, shares thought-provoking insights from her research-driven book High-Impact Design for Online Courses: Blueprinting Quality Digital Learning in Eight Practical Steps. The HIDOC model, developed by Dr. Andrea Gregg and colleagues...

Dr. Jeffrey Yip, Associate Professor of Management at Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business, offers transformative insights through his innovative "Listen and Build to Unlock Change" approach. Drawing on extensive research and practical leadership experience, Dr. Yip emphasizes that attentive listening is not just a soft skill, it is the foundational discipline that unlocks meaningfu...