Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Is This Time Different? Eight Centuries of Financial Folly with Famed Economist Ken Rogoff (#114)
Season 1 Episode 114
Harvard economics professor and former IMF Chief Economist Ken Rogoff is one of the world’s preeminent economic thinkers. Here he brilliantly dissect…
3 years, 10 months ago
Why Having Too Little Makes People Perform Worse and Become More Impatient, Impulsive and Careless: Princeton Behavioral Scientist Eldar Shafir (repost) (#113)
Season 1 Episode 113
Learn how scarcity of anything - money, food or social connections - affects our daily lives and leads us astray. Scarcity reduces both intelligence …
3 years, 10 months ago
Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow: The Value of a College Education and Investing in the Future (repost) (#112)
Season 1 Episode 112
Lawrence Bacow, President of Harvard University, shares how he sees the future of education and the values he leads by at Harvard. Learn the role of …
3 years, 10 months ago
Harvard Business School’s Bill Sahlman: What I’ve Learned Reading 10,000 Business Plans and Investing in Hundreds of Startups (repost) (#111)
Season 1 Episode 111
Of the 10,000 business plans Bill Sahlman has read, only 3 companies met their plan. Find out what it takes to succeed. Entrepreneurs have to be rea…
3 years, 10 months ago
When Women Lead: A Groundbreaking Look at Bias, Leadership and the Future of Work with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin (#110)
Season 1 Episode 110
The deck is still stacked against women in the workplace. Learn how some women dramatically defy the odds, and what both men and women can learn from…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society with Tech Seer Azeem Azhar (#109)
Season 1 Episode 109
Technology is advancing at exponential speed, and humanity is having serious trouble keeping up. Azeem Azhar, a tech seer who has founded and sold fo…
3 years, 11 months ago
Explore Grand Mysteries of Space, Time, Life, and the Cosmos – With World-Renowned Physicist Brian Greene (#108)
Season 1 Episode 108
He’s been called “a successor to Einstein.” Here you’ll see why, as physicist Brian Greene offers profound insights into our place in the universe, h…
3 years, 11 months ago
Climate Future: What We Know and Don’t Know with MIT’s Robert Pindyck (#107)
Season 1 Episode 107
Current debates over climate change are focused almost entirely on reducing emissions - which is something we should do - but we also need to answer …
3 years, 11 months ago
Ask For More: 2 Questions to Negotiate Almost Anything with Columbia Law School Mediation Clinic Director Alex Carter (#106)
Season 1 Episode 106
Did you know that by asking better questions, you get better answers and better results from negotiations, as well as conversations? Learn what the 2…
3 years, 11 months ago
Former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler: Our Loss of Privacy Is Worse Than You Think, No Matter What You Think (#105)
Season 1 Episode 105
Your entire life is an open book of information collected by tech companies. According to Tom Wheeler, former head of the Federal Communications Comm…
4 years ago