Thinkers & Ideas

In their book Sustainability, Technology, and Finance: Rethinking How Markets Integrate ESG , Georg Kell and Andreas Rasche explore the swiftly emerging and crucially important nexus among sustainability, finance, and technology. Kell is Chairman of the tech company Arabesque, which uses AI and data to assess sustainability performance and guide investments. He is also founder of the UN Global Com...

This conversation was recorded on November 16th, 2022. In her book Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source , law professor Kathryn Judge examines the changing role of intermediaries in the economy. Judge, an expert on banking, financial markets, and regulation, is the Harvey J. Goldschmid Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Intellectual Life at Columbia Law Sc...

This conversation was recorded on November 28th, 2022.  Ram Charan is a business consultant, author, and CEO advisor who has had more than 40 years of experience advising executives and boards of top companies around the world. Ram has authored 30 books and sold over 4 million copies globally. In his latest book, Leading Through Inflation: And Recession and Stagflation , Ram provides hands-on...

In his latest book, How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms , psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer examines how humans need to adapt in order to make the best use of new technologies like AI. Gerd Gigerenzer is director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the University of Potsdam and director emeritus of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at th...

Adi Ignatius is the Editor in Chief of Harvard Business Review (HBR). Prior to joining HBR, Adi worked for many years at Wall Street Journal as the Moscow and Beijing bureau chief, and subsequently served as deputy managing director of Time . He has authored several books, including Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang and President Obama, the Path to the White House. I...

Stefan Larsson , MD, Ph. D. is a pioneer in the field of value-based health care. Dr. Larsson is an independent advisor to healthcare organizations, a BCG senior advisor, a co-founder and board member of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) , a non-profit that works to create global standards for measuring health outcomes, and a distinguished fellow on the Health an...

Will Guidara made his name in the hospitality industry as the co-owner of Eleven Madison Park , transforming it from a "good" New York restaurant to a 3 Michelin star establishment that was ranked number one on "The World's 50 Best Restaurants" list in 2017. In his new book, Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect , Will shares his personal memoir and...

Brian Elliott is an Executive Leader at Future Forum . He has spent the last three decades leading teams and building companies as a startup CEO, a product leader at Google, and Senior Vice President at Slack. In his book How the Future Works. Leading Flexible Teams to do the Best Work of Their Lives , co-authored by Sheela Subramanian and Helen Kupp, he points out that the way we worked in pre-pa...

George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is one of the leading academics and voices on corporate purpose, sustainability, and the integration of ESG concerns into business strategy and investing. George is the co-founder of KKS Advisors, a leading sustainability strategy consulting firm, an academic partner at State Street Assoc...

Joshua Gans is a Professor of Strategic Management and the holder of the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto . He is also the Chief Economist of the University’s Creative Destruction Lab. In 2018, together with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb , he published Prediction Machines , an exploration of how basi...

Mike Evans made his name as the founder of GrubHub , which he co-founded back in 2004, guiding it to a successful IPO in 2014. Since then, he has bicycled across the United States, founded Fixer.com , a handyperson service and B-Corp focused on social impact, and written a memoir titled HANGRY: A Startup Journey focused on how to start and grow a business. In conversation with Martin Reeves, Chair...

Jeremy Utley is a Director of Executive Education at Stanford’s d.school and an adjunct professor at Stanford’s School of Engineering. He is the host of the d.school’s widely known program, “Stanford’s Masters of Creativity.” Perry Klebahn is an adjunct professor and Director of Executive Education at Stanford’s d.school. Previously he served as COO for Patagonia and CEO of Timbuk2. In their new b...

Dr. Mohan Subramaniam is a Professor of Strategy and Digital Transformation at the IMD Business School. His research is focused on the digital transformation of incumbent industrial firms, specifically, new sources of competitive advantage in the digital age. In his latest book, The Future of Competitive Strategy: Unleashing the Power of Data and Digital Ecosystems , Mohan discusses how companies...

In this special episode of the Thinkers & Ideas podcast, Martin Reeves, Chairman of BCG Henderson Institute, is joined by two of the leading minds in strategy to discuss the nature of competitive advantage. Join Rita McGrath and Roger L. Martin as they debate whether competitive advantage is more or less sustainable today, whether it has shifted in nature and whether it will shift prospectivel...

Nathan Furr is an Associate Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. His research focuses on how new and established firms adapt to technology, change, and enter new markets. Susannah Harmon Furr is a designer, entrepreneur, and art historian with a research focus on the Dutch Baroque period. She is the founder of a successful women’s clothing line inspired by her research on intricate embroidery. In thei...

Tony O’Driscoll is a Professor of Business Administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the Pratt School of Engineering. He has authored two books on learning and organizational performance and numerous articles for publications such as the Harvard Business Review and The Financial Times . In his latest book Everday Superhero: How You Can Inspire Everyone and Create Real Change...

Albrecht Enders is a Professor of Strategy and Management and Co-Director of the Transition-To-Business Leadership Program at IMD Business School. Together with Arnaud Chevallier , Professor of Strategy, Director of Global Management Programs, and Director of Science in Sustainable Management and Technology at IMD Business School he recently co-authored Solvable: A Simple Solution to Complex Probl...

Alan Murray is the President and CEO of Fortune Media. He is a lifelong journalist having previously held leadership positions at the Wall Street Journal and CNBC. In his latest book, Tomorrow’s Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business , Alan discusses the history and future of corporate capitalism, suggesting that a variety of social, political, technological, and environmental forces are f...

Dorie Clark teaches executive education at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. She is the author of 5 books including Entrepreneurial You and Reinventing You . Clark has been named one of top 50 business thinkers by Thinkers50. In her latest book The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World Clark explains how almos...

Roger L. Martin is a Professor Emeritus of Strategic Management and former Dean at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. He is a trusted strategic adviser to the CEOs of many global companies. Roger has consistently been featured in the Thinkers50 list, where he was named the world’s number one management thinker in 2017. He has authored 12 books, including When More is Not Bett...

Lynda Gratton is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School and the CEO and founder of HSM advisory . Lynda has authored over ten books, including The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity co-authored together with Andrew J. Scott . In her new book, Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organization and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone , Lynda discusses how to d...

Luc de Brabandere is a Senior Advisor at BCG, a BCG Henderson Institute Alumni Fellow, co-founder of CartoonBase , and an invited Professor at The Brussels Solvay School and ETH Zurich. He is the co-author of Thinking in New Boxes , which offers a new paradigm for business creativity. In his most recent book, Be Logical, Be Creative, Be Critical: The Art of Thinking in a Digital World , together w...

John A. List is a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and Chief Economist at Walmart. List is co-author of The Why Axis , a fellow of The Econometric Society, and an editor of the Journal of Political Economy. His new book, The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale , focuses on the necessity of scaling ideas and the things that help and get in the way o...

Dr. Albert Bourla is Chairman and CEO of Pfizer Inc., and author of Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible , a new book that chronicles how Pfizer achieved what many believed to be impossible: the creation of a high efficacy, safe, and producible at-scale mRNA vaccine within a tenth of the expected time. In a conversation with Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG H...

Andrew Binns and Charles O’Reilly are co-founders of Change Logic, a Boston-based strategic advisory firm. Charles is a Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and author of multiple other books on business management. They partnered with Michael Tushman, Professor at Harvard Business School, to coalesce their decades of collective experience in innovation and corporate transformatio...