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Back to SearchMelinda Gates on Fighting for Gender Equality
Episode 703
Melinda Gates, cochair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and founder of Pivotal Ventures, is committing $1 billion over the next ten years to ad…
6 years, 6 months ago
How Companies Like Google and Alibaba Respond to Fast-Moving Markets
Episode 702
Dave Ulrich, professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, argues today's companies need to replace old hierarchical models with h…
6 years, 6 months ago
How to Be Less Distracted at Work — and in Life
Episode 701
Nir Eyal, an expert on technology and psychology, says that we all need to learn to be less distracted into activities that don't help us achieve wha…
6 years, 6 months ago
Dematerialization and What It Means for the Economy — and Climate Change
Episode 700
Andrew McAfee, co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, explains how the U.S. economy is growing and actually using less and less st…
6 years, 6 months ago
What Great Coaching Looks Like
Episode 699
Richard Boyatzis, professor at Case Western Reserve University, says that every professional can benefit from having a coach — and serving as one for…
6 years, 7 months ago
The Inherent Failures of Long-term Contracts — and How to Fix Them
Episode 698
Oliver Hart, Nobel-winning Harvard economist, and Kate Vitasek, faculty at the University of Tennessee, argue that many business contracts are imperf…
6 years, 7 months ago
How African-Americans Advance at Work — And What Organizations Can Do To Help
Episode 697
Laura Morgan Roberts, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, says that organizations are still falling short on promoti…
6 years, 7 months ago
The Challenges (and Triumphs) of a Young Manager
Episode 696
Julie Zhuo, Facebook’s VP of product design, started at the company as its first intern and became a manager at the age of 25. Like many first-time b…
6 years, 7 months ago
How to Thrive as a Working Parent
Episode 695
Daisy Dowling, founder and CEO of Workparent, says that moms and dads with jobs outside the home don't have to feel stressed or guilty about trying t…
6 years, 8 months ago
How Robots and AI Are Changing Job Training
Episode 694
Matt Beane, assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, finds that robots, machine learning, and AI are changing how we train…
6 years, 8 months ago