Business, Management, and Marketing

Business, Management, and Marketing

episodes

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

Alison Fragale, "Likeable Badass: The New Science of Successful Women" (Doubleday Books, 2024)

September 7, 2024

Likeable Badass

Alison Fragale
Hosted by Deidre Tyler

Behavioral scientist Alison Fragale offers powerful new insights and a practical playbook for women to advance in any workplace, full of tips, tricks,…

Futurism, Brand Strategy, and the Magic Ingredient of Time (with Jasmine Bina)

September 5, 2024

Futurism, Brand Strategy, and the Magic Ingredient of Time

Jasmine Bina
Hosted by Patryk Babiracki

I talked to the CEO of Concept Bureau Jasmine Bina about her work in cultural consulting, futurism, and brand strategy. Jasmine studied English liter…

Susan Greenhalgh, "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

August 31, 2024

Soda Science

Susan Greenhalgh
Hosted by Garima Garg

Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where power…

Robert McCorquodale, "Business and Human Rights" (Oxford UP, 2024)

August 22, 2024

Business and Human Rights

Robert McCorquodale
Hosted by Alex Batesmith

Business and Human Rights Law is a rapidly growing area of law, which has dramatically transformed many parts of international law. In this new volume…

Nick Grono, "How to Lead Nonprofits: Turning Purpose into Impact to Change the World" (BenBella Books, 2024)

August 16, 2024

How to Lead Nonprofits

Nick Grono

Non-profit organizations play an indispensable role in the world today, and are consistently rated higher than governments, the media or businesses in…

Matthew Archer, "Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability" (NYU Press, 2024)

August 16, 2024

Unsustainable

Matthew Archer
Hosted by Robin Steiner

In recent years, companies have felt the pressure to be transparent about their environmental impact. Large documents containing summaries of yearly e…

Craig Gent, "Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work" (Verso, 2024)

August 13, 2024

Cyberboss

Craig Gent
Hosted by Louisa Hann

Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers ar…

Leslie Ramos, "Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take" (Lund Humphries, 2023)

August 11, 2024

Philanthropy in the Arts

Leslie Ramos
Hosted by Nick Pozek

In an era where the financial stability of many arts organizations is increasingly precarious, arts philanthropy stands at a critical juncture. The re…

Lucia Hulsether, "Capitalist Humanitarianism" (Duke UP, 2023)

July 21, 2024

Capitalist Humanitarianism

Lucia Hulsether
Hosted by Jacob Barrett

The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the …

History and Digital Media: A Discussion with Allison Tourville

July 3, 2024

History and Digital Media

Allison Tourville
Hosted by Patryk Babiracki

After she earned her BA and MA in history, Allison Tourville decided to pursue a career in social media strategy. For nearly a decade, she worked for…

Faith, Business, and the Nature of Desire: Luke Burgis on René Girard and Mimetic Desire

June 26, 2024

Faith, Business, and the Nature of Desire

Luke Burgis
Hosted by Annika Nordquist

Why do we want what we want? Philosopher, theologian, and literary critic René Girard posits that we draw our desires largely from the people around u…

Allison Elias, "The Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960-1990" (Columbia UP, 2022)

June 22, 2024

The Rise of Corporate Feminism

Allison Elias
Hosted by Jane Scimeca

From the 1960s through the 1990s, the most common job for women in the United States was clerical work. Even as college-educated women obtained greate…

More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

June 13, 2024

More than a Glitch

Meredith Broussard

Today’s book is: More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (MIT Press, 2024), by Meredith Broussard. When technology rein…

Using History to Better Finance and Build Social Wealth

June 6, 2024

Using History to Better Finance and Build Social Wealth

Paul Katz
Hosted by Patryk Babiracki

Esoteric and frequently disinterested in the public good, financial institutions can be hard to navigate for those seeking to advance social welfare. …

CEO Secrets with Dougal Shaw

June 4, 2024

CEO Secrets

Dougal Shaw

Richard interviews BBC Journalist Dougal Shaw about his book CEO Secrets based on the BBC Series CEO secrets in which he interviewed 100s of CEOs. W…

Tom Mueller, "How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine" (Norton, 2023)

May 29, 2024

How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine

Tom Mueller
Hosted by Meghan Cochran

Dialysis is a medical miracle, a treatment that allows people with kidney failure to live when otherwise they would die. It also provides a captive cu…

American Innovation, American Vitality: A Conversation with Chris Buskirk

May 22, 2024

American Innovation, American Vitality

Christopher Buskirk
Hosted by Annika Nordquist

How can we restore America's frontier spirit, foster innovation, and stave off decay? Chris Buskirk sits down to discuss his new book America and the …

Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson, "Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade" (Harvard UP, 2024)

May 16, 2024

Made in China

Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

For centuries, the vastness of the Chinese market tempted foreign companies in search of customers. But in the 1970s, when the United States and China…

Kevin Woodson, "The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

May 13, 2024

The Black Ceiling

Kevin Woodson
Hosted by Deidre Tyler

America's elite law firms, investment banks, and management consulting firms are known for grueling hours, low odds of promotion, and personnel practi…

History, Data Science and Journeys of Discovery with Francisco Ramos

May 2, 2024

History, Data Science and Journeys of Discovery

Francisco Ramos
Hosted by Patryk Babiracki

I had the pleasure of talking to Francisco Ramos about how his study of history shaped his approach to data science, and public policy, and his effort…