Podcast Episodes
Back to Search2017's Top-Performing CEO on Getting Product Right
Episode 600
Pablo Isla, the CEO of Inditex, is No. 1 on Harvard Business Review’s list of “The Best-Performing CEOs in the World 2017.” He opens up about his man…
8 years, 5 months ago
Everyday People Who Led Momentous Change
Episode 599
Nancy Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian, tells the life stories of three influential leaders: the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the pacif…
8 years, 5 months ago
So, You Want to Join a Startup
Episode 598
Jeff Bussgang, a venture capitalist who teaches entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, knows from personal experience and having funded many st…
8 years, 6 months ago
How Successful Solopreneurs Make Money
Episode 597
Dorie Clark, a marketing strategy consultant, answers a burning question: how do people make money off of what they know? She outlines the options fo…
8 years, 6 months ago
Microsoft's CEO on Rediscovering the Company's Soul
Episode 596
Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s third CEO, opens up about his effort to refresh the culture of the company and renew its focus on the future. He reflects …
8 years, 6 months ago
Transcending Either-Or Decision Making
Episode 595
Jennifer Riel, an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, presents a model way to solve problems: integrative thinking. It’s taking the…
8 years, 6 months ago
Find Your Happy Place at Work
Episode 594
Annie McKee, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the book “How to Be Happy at Work,” tells the story of her journey to ha…
8 years, 7 months ago
How to Fix "Team Creep"
Episode 593
Mark Mortensen, an associate professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD, discusses the research on "multiteaming"—when employees work not only ac…
8 years, 7 months ago
Why Everyone Should See Themselves as a Leader
Episode 592
Sue Ashford, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, breaks down her decades of research on leadership—who achieves it, …
8 years, 7 months ago
Basic Competence Can Be a Strategy
Episode 591
Raffaella Sadun, a professor at Harvard Business School, explains why seemingly common-sensical management practices are so hard to implement. After …
8 years, 7 months ago