Business, Management, and Marketing

Business, Management, and Marketing

episodes

Interviews with scholars of business, management and marketing about their new books.

How Does the Second-Hand Book Business Really Work? with WeBuyBooks Co-Founder Mike Lane

June 12, 2026

How Does the Second-Hand Book Business Really Work?

Mike Lane
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Today I’m speaking with Mike Lane, Managing Director and co-founder of WeBuyBooks about the economics of the second-hand book business. WeBuyBooks is …

Can I Say That: Your Go-To Guide for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

June 11, 2026

Can I Say That

Poornima Luthra

Can I Say That: Your Go-To Guide for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is your safe space to learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion, and how y…

Helping Companies Foster Agility

June 11, 2026

Helping Companies Foster Agility

Charles Snow

Born and raised in San Diego, Charles Snow held a variety of jobs early in life, including: paperboy, grocery store cashier, accounting clerk, chauffe…

Ben Brabyn: Entrepreneur and Community Builder

June 7, 2026

Ben Brabyn

Hosted by Richard Lucas

This episode of the New Books Network’s Entrepreneurship and Leadership channel features Richard Lucas in conversation with entrepreneur and community…

In Search of Trustworthy AI

June 4, 2026

In Search of Trustworthy AI

Craig Hatkoff

Craig Hatkoff has spent four decades at the intersection of innovation, culture-building, and institutional transformation. He pioneered commercial mo…

Navigating Landmines at Work: Differences Can Create Value

June 4, 2026

Navigating Landmines at Work

Susan MacKenty Brady

Susan MacKenty Brady is a leadership educator, executive coach, bestselling author, and the founding CEO of the Simmons University Institute for Inclu…

Turning IBM's Culture Massively Around

June 4, 2026

Turning IBM's Culture Massively Around

Phil Gilbert

Phil Gilbert is best known for leading IBM’s transformation as their General Manager of Design, a project that updated the work of 400,000 IBM employe…

What Is Real Transformations’ Mission?

June 4, 2026

What Is Real Transformations’ Mission?

Transformation is hard. To be successful, it has to be human. That’s what Julie Anixter and Dan Hill mean by Business Change that Works from the Insid…

Timothy Fort and Suneal Bedi, "The Vision of the Firm" (West Academic Publishing, 2025)

June 3, 2026

The Vision of the Firm

Timothy Fort and Suneal Bedi
Hosted by Alfred Marcus

This coursebook, written by top scholars in the business law and ethics area, contains the complete summary of the leading theories of business ethics…

Pedro Domingos, "The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World" (Basic Books, 2018)

May 30, 2026

The Master Algorithm

Pedro Domingos
Hosted by Gregory McNiff

In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge …

Turn Your LinkedIn Profile into a Book Marketing Machine with Louise Brogan

May 27, 2026

Turn Your LinkedIn Profile into a Book Marketing Machine

Louise Brogan
Hosted by Sarah Russo

What if in the age of AI generated content, the most important part of being visible online is just being a human? In this episode of The Publishing P…

Billionaire Backlash: Can It Help Save Democracy?

May 26, 2026

Billionaire Backlash

Pepper Culpepper, Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy at Oxford University

This week on Democracy Dialogues, host Maya Tudor speaks with her colleague and fellow political scientist Pepper Culpepper about his new book Billion…

Jason S. Spicer, "Co-Operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective: Exceptionally Un-American?" (Oxford UP, 2024)

May 23, 2026

Co-Operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective

Jason S Spicer
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Co-operative enterprises, which are democratically owned and governed by their workers, customers, or suppliers, have long captured the imagination of…

Nayantara Srinivasan, "The Brick-and-Mortar Bookstore in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

May 17, 2026

The Brick-and-Mortar Bookstore in Contemporary India

Nayantara Srinivasan
Hosted by Karishma Koshal

The Brick-and-Mortar Bookstore in Contemporary India (Cambridge UP, 2025) explores the landscape of anglophone trade bookselling in India, aiming to i…

Gerald F. Davis, "Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

May 16, 2026

Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century

Gerald F. Davis
Hosted by Alfred Marcus

Information and communication technologies have fundamentally altered the markets for capital, labor, supplies, and distribution in ways that underm…

Chiara Libiseller, "Reconceptualizing War: The Rise and Fall of Fashionable Concepts in Strategic Studies" (Oxford UP, 2026)

May 12, 2026

Reconceptualizing War

Chiara Libiseller
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

The field of Strategic Studies, which studies the use and threat of force for political purposes, has seen the repeated rise of concepts to dominate d…

Stephan Meier, "The Employee Advantage: How Putting Workers First Helps Business Thrive" (PublicAffairs, 2024)

May 9, 2026

The Employee Advantage

Stephan Meier
Hosted by Alfred Marcus

In an ever-shifting work landscape, leaders can no longer ignore their most overlooked stakeholders—their employees. In The Employee Advantage: How Pu…

Are Libraries the Hidden Book Market? with Erin Cox of Words & Money

April 29, 2026

Are Libraries the Hidden Book Market?

Erin Cox
Hosted by Sarah Russo

What if the most powerful tool in your book marketing strategy isn't social media — it's your local library? In the debut episode of The Publishing Pl…

Mary Lisa Gavenas, "Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay" (Penguin, 2026)

April 28, 2026

Selling Opportunity

Mary Lisa Gavenas
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

As detailed in Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay (Penguin, 2026) by Mary Lisa Gavenas, as the only woman in Forbes’ Greatest Business Stories…

William R. Brody, "Uncommon Sense: Rethinking Ordinary Problems in Extraordinary Ways" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

April 28, 2026

Uncommon Sense

William R. Brody
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Today I’m speaking with William R. Brody about his book, Uncommon Sense: Rethinking Ordinary Problems in Extraordinary Ways (Johns Hopkins University …