Business Talk

Dr. Bella DePaulo explores the central themes of her acclaimed book “Single at Heart: The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life.” Dr. Bella is widely recognized as the leading expert on single life. The Atlantic has described her as “America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience.” Dr. Bella coined the term “single at heart” to describe people who live their best, mo...

Dr. Andrew Hoffman, the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, jointly appointed at the Ross School of Business and the School for Environment and Sustainability shares key insights from his acclaimed book Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market: Correcting the Systemic Failures of Shareholder Capitalism, exploring how business schools can play a...

Prof. Fred Selnes, Professor of Marketing at BI Norwegian Business School, shares key insights from his acclaimed book “Customer Portfolio Management: Creating Value with a Large Leaky Bucket of Customers.” Professor Fred Selnes challenges the traditional belief that firms should focus only on a small base of highly loyal customers. Using the powerful metaphor of a “large leaky bucket,” he shows t...

Prof. Michael, the William and Jacalyn Egan Emeritus Professor of Management and Faculty Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management as well as the McNulty Leadership Program at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, joins us to share powerful insights from his acclaimed book “The Leader’s Checklist: 16 Mission-Critical Principles.” This episode of Business Talk features P...

Professor Andrew Bernstein, a distinguished historian specializing in Japanese and environmental history at Lewis & Clark College, shares key insights from his acclaimed book Fuji: A Mountain in the Making, a sweeping biography of Japan’s iconic mountain that traces its story from the Ice Age to the present. Dr. Bernstein’s conversation reveals Mount Fuji as an active historical agent rather than...

Dr. Amir Grinstein, Associate Professor of Marketing at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, shares insights from his research, “Creating Social Change by Moving from i-level to g-level and s-level Interventions.” His work presents a comprehensive framework that connects individual, group, and system-wide levels of change. The study sheds light on how consumers serve as acti...

Dr. Tima Bansal, Professor of Sustainability and Strategy and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability at the Ivey Business School, Western University, joins us on the Business Talk podcast to discuss her groundbreaking research, “Seeing Beyond the Here and Now: How Corporate Purpose Combats Corporate Myopia.” Corporate purpose emerges as a powerful antidote to organizational myopia...

Dr. Laurie Heller, Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, explores her groundbreaking research, “From Echoes to AI: Translating Human Sound Perception into Technology,” and discusses how insights from human listening are reshaping intelligent audio systems. The episode explores how humans percei...

Dr. Deborah Barnbaum, Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Coordinator of the Minor in Bioethics and Health Humanities at Kent State University, shares key insights from her acclaimed book, “Data Safety Monitoring Boards: A Bioethical Perspective,” illuminating a critical yet often overlooked dimension of bioethics - the ethical challenges involved in monitoring data and safeguarding part...

Dr. Emily Rosado-Solomon, Assistant Professor of Management at Babson College, discusses her groundbreaking research titled “Others Matter When Mothers Return: An Investigation of Relational Movement and Its Role in Post-Maternity Leave Reentry Transitions.” This episode with Dr. Emily Rosado-Solomon delves into how mothers’ workplace relationships shift when they return from maternity leave, a pr...

Dr. Robert Austin, Professor of Information Systems at Ivey Business School and affiliated faculty member at Harvard Medical School, explores critical insights from his seminal work, Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations, a foundational text that examines how performance measurement influences organizational behavior and reveals the often-overlooked risks of measurement dysfunction....

Dr. Santiago Gallino, the Charles W. Evans Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, joins us to discuss his seminal research, “Are Everywhere Stores the New Face of Retail?”, examining how omnichannel retailers can strengthen customer engagement and optimize logistics by leveraging innov...

Prof. Pablo Boczkowski and Dr. Mora Matassi discuss their book “To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media across Nations, Media, and Platforms” and illustrate how systematic comparative research can advance the understanding and impact of social media scholarship. This podcast episode delves into how comparative thinking can transform the study of social media by moving beyond single-country, s...

Dr. Devin Stein, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management at the Culverhouse College of Business, The University of Alabama, presented his research titled “Distributed Knowledge and the Creation of Public Value: Community-Based Organizing and Wildfire Management in Northern California.” This episode examines how community self-organization and local knowledge reduce...

Prof. Yoram (Jerry) Wind, Lauder Professor Emeritus and Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, shares profound insights from his acclaimed book, “Creativity in the Age of AI: Toolkits for the Modern Mind”. This episode with Prof. Yoram (Jerry) Wind delves into how creativity can be cultivated systematically rather than seen as a rare innate gift. He explains that...

Dr. Samir Chopra, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, shares key insights from his acclaimed book, “Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide”, exploring how philosophy can help us be less anxious about anxiety by understanding it as an essential part of the human experience. Dr. Samir Chopra presents anxiety as an inescapable feature of the human condition...

Dr. Jonathan Moreno, the David and Lyn (Silfen) University Emeritus Professor and Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, shares key insights from his acclaimed book, “Absolutely Essential: Bioethics and the Rules-Based International Order.” The document explains how Dr. Jonathan D. Moreno links the birth of modern bioethics to the Nuremberg trials, where infor...

Dr. Laurel Austin, Associate Professor of Management Science at the Ivey Business School, Western University, explores her groundbreaking research, “Risk, Uncertainty, and Health Decisions in the Digital Age,” which investigates how behavioural and decision science shed light on the choices individuals make in healthcare - particularly in times of crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Dual-process...

Dr. Urs Mueller, Associate Professor of Practice in the Strategy & Entrepreneurship Knowledge Group at SDA Bocconi School of Management, offers a powerful, practice-tested roadmap for educators and writers who want to design and deliver outstanding case-based learning experiences, drawing from his textbook and workbooks, “The Ultimate Case Guide: How to Successfully Teach and Write Case Studies”....

Dr. Michael Gillespie, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida, shares key insights from his acclaimed book “Distancing: How Great Leaders Reframe to Make Better Decisions.” Psychological distancing is a practical method that helps leaders step outside their immediate emotions, habits, and biases so they can see decisions more clearly. Drawing on his work at the Univer...

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...