Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTarget's Expensive Cybersecurity Mistake
Episode 37
There is a joke in the cybersecurity community that there are two kinds of companies: those that know they’ve been hacked, and those that haven’t fou…
9 years, 9 months ago
How Wayfair Built a Furniture Brand from Scratch
Episode 36
Wayfair has been around since the early days of ecommerce. But where it now exists as a single, popular brand, it was once an unaffiliated collection…
9 years, 10 months ago
Digital Change: Lessons from the Newspaper Industry
Episode 35
On the internet, content may be king, but connecting users is the key to building an empire. The Norwegian media giant Schibsted learned this lesson …
9 years, 10 months ago
Building Affordable Health Care in Paradise
Episode 34
By some accounts, only 5-6% of people around the world get the cardiac treatment they need to survive. The rest perish. This statistic highlights the…
9 years, 10 months ago
Managing in the Real World: How to Make Gray-Area Decisions
Episode 33
An unfortunate but necessary part of a manager’s job is having to let underperforming employees go. Knowing when and how to take that step with the c…
9 years, 11 months ago
The Crash and the Fix of HealthCare.gov
Episode 32
The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare for short, had three goals: make health insurance available, required, and affordable for everyone. There was j…
9 years, 11 months ago
Oktoberfest: Making Money Off of Tradition
Episode 31
Oktoberfest began as a raucous wedding celebration in Germany more than 200 years ago and has since grown into a worldwide phenomenon. Munich, alone,…
10 years ago
Innovation Under Constraint: Constructing a Turnaround at Lego
Episode 30
Lego has been helping children piece together dreams and build their imaginations for decades, and has become one of the world’s most popular toys an…
10 years ago
Netflix Wins Big by Betting on "House of Cards"
Episode 29
Before “House of Cards” was an internationally-renowned and critically acclaimed hit series, it was a total shot in the dark. Luckily for the small f…
10 years ago
Behind Apple's Tax Situation, an Unprecedented Financial Policy
Episode 28
Most people know Apple as one of the richest and most successful companies in the world, but it wasn’t always that way. In 1997, the company suffered…
10 years ago