Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhat Building a "Jeopardy!" Robot Taught IBM About Innovation
Episode 27
It’s a good bet that winning a game show isn’t often on the list of top priorities at large companies. So how was it that building a robot to do just…
10 years ago
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
Episode 26
College represents one of the biggest decisions and investments many consumers will ever make. But can they really trust the rankings available to he…
10 years ago
How Modest Investors Can Still Bet Big
Episode 25
A novel idea: give loyal customers a chance to buy shares in a company they love. That’s the premise behind LOYAL3, which uses the democratizing powe…
10 years ago
How to Fix a Broken Global Team
Episode 24
Increasingly, almost every team is a global team in some capacity. This presents a difficult challenge for managers everywhere, and especially for hi…
10 years ago
Who Makes the Eyes for Driverless Cars?
Episode 23
Though Google has become the U.S. face of the driverless car movement, other global companies have been developing similar technology for more than a…
10 years ago
Hold Onto Your Complexity: Bringing Multiple Identities to Work
Episode 22
Carla Ann Harris has blazed trails and excelled at institutions like Harvard and Morgan Stanley. But doing so has required her to strike a careful ba…
10 years ago
A Better World Through Brewing
Episode 21
Since brewing is a marketing-driven business, finding ways to differentiate a beverage from its competition is crucial. Heineken’s chief marketing of…
10 years ago
Who Owns Space?
Episode 20
Entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are tapping into their vast personal wealth to make commercial space travel a reality. In the process, th…
10 years ago
The Real Cost of Ignoring Mental Health in the Workplace
Episode 19
The statistics are startling: about one-third of American workers suffer from chronic work stress; $27 billion worth of work days are lost to mental …
10 years ago
Walmart: Changing the World for Better or Worse?
Episode 18
Can big companies fix big problems? Are they responsible for doing so? As the third-largest employer in the world, any move Walmart makes reverberate…
10 years ago