Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHiring the Best People
Episode 610
Patty McCord, Netflix’s former Chief Talent Officer, sees hiring as constant matchmaking. Building a team of people that gets amazing work done, she …
8 years, 3 months ago
Breaking Down the New U.S. Corporate Tax Law
Episode 609
Mihir Desai, a professor of finance at Harvard Business School, breaks down the brand-new U.S. tax law. He says it will affect everything from how co…
8 years, 3 months ago
Making Unlimited Vacation Time Work
Episode 608
Aron Ain, the CEO of Kronos Incorporated, explains why unlimited vacation can be in the best interests of employees and the organization. He describe…
8 years, 3 months ago
How Technology Tests Our Trust
Episode 607
Rachel Botsman, the author of “Who Can You Trust?", talks about how trust works, whether in relation to robots, companies, or other people. Technolog…
8 years, 4 months ago
Box’s CEO on Pivoting to the Enterprise Market
Episode 606
Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, reflects on the cloud storage company’s entry into the enterprise market. He was skeptical about pivoting away from cons…
8 years, 4 months ago
Why More CEOs Should Be Hired from Within
Episode 605
Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, a senior adviser at the global executive search firm Egon Zehnder, makes the case for finding a company’s next CEO inside th…
8 years, 4 months ago
Dow Chemical's CEO on Running an Environmentally Friendly Multinational
Episode 604
Andrew Liveris, the CEO of Dow Chemical, discusses the 120-year-old company’s ambitious sustainability agenda. He says an environmentally driven busi…
8 years, 4 months ago
When ‘Best Practices’ Backfire
Episode 603
Freek Vermeulen, an associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the London Business School, argues that too many companies are following …
8 years, 5 months ago
The Hardscrabble Business of Chinese Manufacturing in Africa
Episode 602
Irene Yuan Sun, a consultant at McKinsey, explains why so many Chinese entrepreneurs are setting up factories in Africa. She describes what it’s like…
8 years, 5 months ago
Astronaut Scott Kelly on Working in Space
Episode 601
Scott Kelly, a retired U.S. astronaut, spent 520 days in space over four missions. Working in outer space is a lot like working on earth, but with di…
8 years, 5 months ago