Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCovid-19 Dispatch: Craig Malloy
Season 2 Episode 38
What happens when a video conferencing company has to rely on its own products for its day-to-day operations? The pandemic turned Austin, Texas-based…
6 years, 1 month ago
Covid-19 Dispatch: Barry Schuler
Season 2 Episode 37
The pandemic has radically altered the economic landscape and vastly complicated the VC market. Money is in short supply and start-ups need to run le…
6 years, 1 month ago
Covid-19 Dispatch: Karen Mills
Season 2 Episode 36
Return guest, Harvard Business School senior fellow Karen Mills, is uniquely qualified to assert that the Covid-19 pandemic poses a greater threat to…
6 years, 1 month ago
Covid-19 Dispatch: Taso Du Val
Season 2 Episode 35
The pandemic has increased demand for online, remote freelance and contract work. Digital labor platform Toptal provides a market for highly skilled …
6 years, 1 month ago
Covid-19 Dispatch: Sham Kakade
Season 2 Episode 34
Contact tracing—mapping the spread of a virus by identifying individuals in the chain of transmission—is an essential tool in the fight to limit the …
6 years, 1 month ago
Handicapping the global competition for talent
Season 2 Episode 33
Post-Covid recovery will hinge on how well countries leverage talent. This lends new relevance to international business school INSEAD’s 2020 global …
6 years, 1 month ago
Covid-19 Dispatch: Nick Dalton
Season 2 Episode 32
Unilever was several years into a company-wide plan to revamp its workforce when the coronavirus flared into a pandemic. The multinational entered th…
6 years, 1 month ago
Covid-19 Dispatch: Kent Thiry
Season 2 Episode 31
Kent Thiry is a veteran healthcare executive with decades of experience observing public health policy and administration at both federal and state l…
6 years, 1 month ago
Freelancer.com: On-demand Skills and Ideas
Season 2 Episode 30
The Covid-19 pandemic appears to be accelerating the global workforce shift toward freelance and contract work, as it makes remote work a more attrac…
6 years, 2 months ago
Covid-19 Dispatch: Edward Glaeser
Season 2 Episode 29
Harvard economist Edward Glaeser is an expert on how cities function as economic engines and centers of innovation. He notes that the advantages of d…
6 years, 2 months ago