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South Asian Studies September 27, 2023

Platformization and Informality

Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation

Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws

Hosted by Alok Prasanna and Sarayu Natarajan
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In Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru, Jakarta, Cape Town, Sao Paulo and other cities of the global South explore …

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Sociology September 26, 2023

Selling the American People

Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech

Lee Mcguigan

Hosted by Blyss Cleveland
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How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet. Algorithms, data extraction, digital marketers monetizing "eyeballs" …
Environmental Studies September 16, 2023

Disrupting D.C.

The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City

Katie J. Wells, Kafui Attoh, and Declan Cullen

Hosted by Brian Hamilton
The first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company created a playbook for …
Media September 12, 2023

A Better Way to Buy Books

A Conversation with Andy Hunter, Founder and CEO, Bookshop.org

Andy Hunter

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has already raised more than $27,000,000. In this interview …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight September 7, 2023

Brand Storytelling

Put Customers at the Heart of Your Brand Story

Miri Rodriguez

Hosted by Dan Hill
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Miri Rodriguez about her book Brand Storytelling: Put Customers at the Heart of Your Brand Story (Kogan Page, 2023). Miri Rodriguez began her career at Microsoft by leading social media support …
Peoples & Things August 28, 2023

The Ideology of Entrepreneurship

A Conversation with Robert Eberhart

Robert N. Eberhart

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
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Robert Eberhart, Associate Professor of Management and Faculty Director of International Business at the University of San Diego, talks about his work on the ideology of entrepreneurship with Peoples & …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight August 24, 2023

The Burnout Epidemic

The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It

Jennifer Moss

Hosted by Dan Hill
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Today I talked to Jennifer Moss about her new book The Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It (HBRP, 2021). Workplace burnout is such an urgent …
Peoples & Things August 14, 2023

How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.

A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh

Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
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Katie Wells, a Postdoctoral Fritz Fellow with Georgetown University's Tech and Society Initiative, and Kafui Attoh, Associate Professor of Urban Studies in the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies …
Science, Technology, and Society August 9, 2023

The Internet Con

How to Seize the Means of Computation

Cory Doctorow

Hosted by Jake Chanenson
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Big Tech locked us into their systems by making their platforms hard to leave by design. The impossibility of staying connected to people on their platforms after you delete your …
Game Studies July 31, 2023

Games and Gamification in Market Research

Increasing Consumer Engagement in Research for Business Success

Betty Adamou

Hosted by Rudolf Thomas Inderst
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Games are the most engaging medium of all time: they harness storytelling and heuristics, drive emotion and push the evolution of technology in a way that no other platform has …
Economic and Business History July 27, 2023

The Corporation and the Twentieth Century

The History of American Business Enterprise

Richard N. Langlois

Hosted by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo
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The twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism, brought forth what became a dominant narrative: that administrative coordination by …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight July 27, 2023

Using Behavioral Science in Marketing

Drive Customer Action and Loyalty by Prompting Instinctive Responses

Nancy Harhut

Hosted by Dan Hill
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Behavioral science recognizes that human beings aren’t so much pro-active decision-makers as they are people seeking to take short-cuts and operate in default mode to save mental energy. This book …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones July 25, 2023

The Future of Supply Chains

A Discussion with Rob Handfield

Rob Handfield

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
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Supply chains matter. And one of the most compelling defences of the capitalist system is that for all its various dysfunctions, it does at least ensure the quick delivery of …
Global Media & Communication July 17, 2023

The Labor of Reinvention

Entrepreneurship in the Chinese Digital Economy

Lin Zhang

Hosted by Aswin Punathambekar and Jing Wang
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Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. In this episode, our host Jing Wang discusses the book The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese …
Environmental Studies July 13, 2023

From Big Oil to Big Green

Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis

Marco Grasso

Hosted by Isobel Akerman
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In From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis (MIT Press, 2022), Professor Marco Grasso examines the responsibility of the oil and …
MIT Press Podcast July 7, 2023

Spam

A Shadow History of the Internet

Finn Brunton

Hosted by MIT Press
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The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas …
Education July 3, 2023

An Imperfect Leader

Human-Centered Leadership in (after) Action

Peter L. Stiepleman

Hosted by Gregory Soden
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An Imperfect Leader: Leadership in (After) Action (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) tells the story of a superintendent from his first days to the pandemic. In each chapter, he responds to a …
Finance June 28, 2023

Four Ways to Beat the Market:

A Practical Guide to Stock-Screening Strategies to Help You Pick Winning Shares

Algy Hall

Hosted by John Emrich
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Investors in stocks are faced with two major problems: How to find and interpret the most useful data from company accounts. How to whittle down the list of thousands of public companies …
MIT Press Podcast June 24, 2023

The Innovators Hypothesis

How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More Than Good Ideas

Michael Schrage

Hosted by MIT Press
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What is the best way for a company to innovate? Advice recommending "innovation vacations" and the luxury of failure may be wonderful for organizations with time to spend and money …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones June 24, 2023

The Future of Leadership

A Discussion with Amanda Goodall

Amanda Goodall

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
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Do experts perform better than generalists? In the midst of the fraught 2016 Brexit campaign one of the most British senior British politicians arguing that the UK should leave the …