Best Jeff Schatten Podcasts (2024)

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Remote Management in the Covid Era (w/ Sharon Parker) 29:04

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Sharon Parker is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Curtin University, Director of the Centre for Transformative Work Design, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sheffield. We discuss remote work in the covid era.By Jeff Schatten

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Creating Human Centered Organizations (w/ Michele Zanini) 39:46

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Michele Zanini is the co-founder of the Management Lab. Together with Gary Hamel, Zanini helps forward-thinking organizations become more resilient, innovative and engaging places to work. Zanini was previously an Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company. Zanini’s work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times, and the …

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Should Washington and Lee Remove Lee from its Name? (w/ Lucas Morel, Jim Casey & Brandon Hasbrouck) 1:08:53

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The faculty at Washington and Lee University recently voted to remove Lee from the name of the institution. Ultimately, this monumental decision rests with the board of trustees. In this episode, I speak with faculty members that represent three distinct perspectives on this issue: keep the name as is, remove Lee from the name, remove both Washingt…

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Samsung Rising (w/ Geoffrey Cain) 56:44

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Geoffrey Cain is an award-winning foreign correspondent, author, commentator, anthropologist and scholar of East and Central Asia. His first book, SAMSUNG RISING, from a decade of his coverage of the world’s largest technology conglomerate, was published in March 2020 and is the topic of our conversation. A former correspondent at The Economist, Ca…

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Stock Market and Finance in the Coronavirus Era (w/ Grant Williams) 58:01

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Grant Williams is a preeminent thinker on finance, markets and the economic implications of coronavirus. Over the past 30 years he has held senior positions at a number of investment banks and brokers across the globe. Grant is a senior advisor to Matterhorn Asset Management AG in Switzerland, a portfolio and strategy advisor to Vulpes Investment M…

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Readying millennials for the C-suite (w/ Nate Bennett) 35:58

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Nate Bennett, Ph.D., is a professor of management and the faculty director of Georgia State University’s executive MBA program. He has published in many widely read resources for managers including the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek.com and Forbes.com. He is co-author of two books, Riding Shotgun: The Role of the COO and…

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How Digital Winners Set Direction, Learn, and Adapt (w/ Arun Arora) 33:24

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Arun Arora is a partner at McKinsey with over 25 years of experience managing operations for US-based and multinational companies. He has extensive expertise in all environments, including digital, retail, and omnichannel. Arun specializes in helping clients transform their business and overall customer experience by harnessing the power of technol…

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Managing Algorithms (w/ Jennifer Logg) 36:18

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Jennifer Logg is an Assistant Professor of Management at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. Prior to joining Georgetown, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University. Logg’s research examines how people expect algorithmic and human judgment to differ. In this podcast, we discuss a wide range of issues surrounding algorit…

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Disunited Nations (w/ Peter Zeihan) 42:37

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Peter Zeihan is an expert in geopolitics: the study of how place impacts financial, economic, cultural, political and military developments. He presents customized executive briefings to a wide array of audiences which include, but are not limited to, financial professionals, Fortune 500 firms, energy investors, and a mix of industrial, power, agri…

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Emotional Agility (w/ Susan David) 30:14

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Susan David is one of the world’s leading management thinkers and an award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist. We discuss her new #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling book, Emotional Agility. Susan’s TED Talk on the topic went viral with over 1 million views in its first week of release. She is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business …

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Opportunity and Risk in Venture Capital (w/ Josh Wolfe) 41:04

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Josh Wolfe is the co-founder and managing partner of Lux Capital, a venture capital fund with $2.5 billion under management that invests in emerging science and technology ventures at the outermost edges of what is possible. Josh is a columnist with Forbes and Editor for the Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report. He has been invited to The White House …

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The Unintended Consequences of Diversity Initiatives (w/ Lisa Leslie) 29:51

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Lisa Leslie is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Leslie's research focuses on strategies for facilitating social justice and strong performance in diverse organizations. She also conducts research in the related areas of cross-cultural organizational behavior and conflict manag…

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Confronting Gender Inequality (w/ Robin Ely) 44:38

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Robin Ely a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on leadership, identity, and organizational culture change. Examples of her past research include studies of men and masculinity on offshore oil platforms; the impact of racial diversity on re…

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It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work (w/ Jason Fried) 38:17

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Jason Fried is the co-founder and CEO of Basecamp, a software development company. Jason is the author of many books, including his recent “It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work.” The Economist wrote, “Their book is funny, well-written and iconoclastic and by far the best thing on management published this year.” And I second that opinion.…

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Big Tech and Data Privacy (w/ Leslie John) 21:19

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Leslie K. John is a Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Leslie is a behavioral scientist who studies how people make decisions, and the wisdom or error of those decisions. In her primary line of research, Leslie studies privacy decision-making, identifying what drives people to share or withhold personal information…

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Serving a life sentence (w/ Travis May and Keramet Reiter) 1:59:00

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Part I- Travis May committed 5 armed robberies at the age of 16. Travis tells his remarkable, inspiring story. Part II- Keramet Reiter is an associate professor of criminology, law and society at the UC Irvine School of Social Ecology. Keramet studies prisons, prisoners’ rights, and the impact of prison and punishment policy on individuals, communi…

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Making Venture Capital More Effective (w/ Blair Garrou) 42:26

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Blair Garrou is a co-founder and Managing Director at Mercury Fund, an early stage venture capital fund with over $275 million under management. Blair focuses on investments in enterprise SaaS and cloud computing startups. In addition, Blair teaches courses on venture capital at Rice University and was named to the Houston Business Journal’s inaugu…

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On Cybersecurity (w/ Jack Huffard) 36:49

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Jack Huffard is the President and CEO of Tenable Network Security, a $2 billion cyber security corporation. Jack co-founded Tenable in 2002. Before Tenable, Jack was the Director of Corporate Development for Enterasys Networks. In 2013, he received the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for defense and security.…

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Aggregating the News (w/ Mark Coddington) 43:26

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Mark Coddington is an assistant professor of journalism and mass communication at Washington and Lee University. He is the author of the recent book, Aggregating the News. Mark earned his Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a contributor to the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. His research has been publishe…

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On Speaking Up (w/Megan Reitz) 42:14

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Megan Reitz is listed on the Thinkers50 Radar of global management thinkers and on the 2018 HR Most Influential list of Thinkers. Reitz is the author of the new book, Speak Up, as well as Dialogue in Organizations and Mind Time and a professor of leadership and dialogue, Hult Ashridge Executive Education. She is an international speaker, coach and …

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When businesses violate the public’s trust (w/ Sandra Sucher) 44:53

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Sandra Sucher is a Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. Sucher is the author of over 100 business cases, technical notes, video interviews, and teaching notes cases on leadership and the ethical dilemmas of businesses and their managers, and two books: The Moral Leader: Challenges, Insights and Tools, and Teaching The Mo…

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The Artificial Intelligence Revolution (w/ Tom Davenport) 41:58

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Tom Davenport is a professor of information technology and management at Babson College, the co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative for the Digital Economy, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. He has written or edited twenty books including The AI Advantage and over 250 print or digital artic…

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Organizational Culture and Values (w/ President Will Dudley) 42:04

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Will Dudley is the president of Washington and Lee University. He was previously the provost and professor of philosophy at Williams College. He is the author of two books, "Understanding German Idealism" (2007) and "Hegel, Nietzsche and Philosophy: Thinking Freedom" (2002). He is the editor of volumes on Kant and Hegel and has published numerous s…

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CEO of Progressive, 2018 Businessperson of the Year: Tricia Griffith 39:47

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Tricia Griffith is the CEO and president of Progressive Insurance, the 3rd largest auto insurance company in The United States. In 2018, Tricia became the first women to be named Fortune’s Businessperson of the year. She leads Progressive’s 33,000 employees. We discuss a range of issues including culture, managing executives, diversity, technology …

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The Death of Conspicuous Consumption? (w/Peter Singer) 35:32

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Peter Singer has been dubbed by many as the “world’s most influential living philosopher.” Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University. He has written co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 50 books, untold number of articles and his writings have appeared in more than 25 languages. Singer is the founder and board chair of The Li…

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Blockchain and Bitcoin (w/ Stephen P. Williams) 48:01

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Stephen P. Willams and Jeff Schatten discuss the promise of blockchain, some of the attributes and challenges inherent in cryptocurrencies and the ways in which blockchain might change the world. Stephen P. Williams is a writer, journalist, and author, with over a dozen published books. Author of Blockchain: The Next Everything, from Scribner publi…

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Why We Work (w/ Barry Schwartz) 48:08

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Barry Schwartz and Jeff Schatten discuss why we work, what motives excellence, the and role that money plays in performance. Barry Schwartz is an emeritus professor of psychology at Swarthmore College and a visiting professor at the Haas School of Business at Berkeley. He has spent forty years thinking and writing about the interaction between econ…

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Connected Strategies (w/ Nicolaj Siggelkow) 36:36

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Nicolaj Siggelkow is a business Professor at the Wharton School of business at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a Ph.D. in Business Economics the Harvard Business School. His research on how firms create and sustain competitive advantage has been published in the leading management journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, M…

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Balancing Stakeholder Interests (w/ Roger Martin) 49:56

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Roger Martin was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. Roger serves as the Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management. From 1998 to 2013, he served as…

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Improving Conversations (w/Celeste Headlee) 37:51

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Celeste Headlee is an award-winning journalist, professional speaker and author of Heard Mentality and We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter. In her 20-year career in public radio, she has been the Executive Producer of On Second Thought at Georgia Public Radio and anchored programs including Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, All T…

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Trump the Negotiator (w/ Marty Latz) 45:41

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Marty Latz is an author, international speaker, and the founder of LATZ Negotiation. Since 1995, Latz has taught more than 100,000 lawyers and business professionals around the world how to negotiate more effectively. Mr. Latz received his law and negotiation training at Harvard Law School, and was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of G…

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Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing (w/ Renée Mauborgne) 42:34

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Renée Mauborgne is a professor of strategy at INSEAD. She is also Co-Director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. Mauborgne is ranked in the top 5 management gurus in the world in the Thinkers50 listing of the World’s Top Management Gurus, a title she has held for ten straight years. She is the highest placed woman ever on Thinkers50. Maub…

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How Insights Change Organizations (w/ Adam Grant) 32:33

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Adam Grant and Jeff Schatten discuss Grant’s recent article “The Surprising Value of Obvious Insights” and the challenge that many managers have in adopting “best practices.” They also discuss how to give constructive feedback. Adam Grant has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for seven straight years. He is a leading expert on how we can find moti…

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Rising to the Occasion: Leadership Forged in Crisis (w/ Nancy Koehn) 47:30

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Nancy Koehn and Jeff Schatten discuss why some leaders are able to excel in crisis situations. They address key leadership issues such as whether leaders are born or created and the ways in which leaders navigate between values and strategy. They also discuss the leadership legacy of Abraham Lincoln. Nancy Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Busine…

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Humble Leadership (w/ Edgar Schein and Peter Schein) 44:45

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Edgar Schein, Peter Schein and Jeff Schatten discuss the benefits and potential challenges of “humble leadership,” when leaders establish a personal relationship model with subordinates instead of basing interactions on a quid pro quo mindset. They discuss a wide range of issues relating to leadership, culture and professional relationships in a hi…

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The Mind of the White-Collar Criminal (with Eugene Soltes) 43:00

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Eugene Soltes and Jeff Schatten have a wide ranging discussion about white-collar crime and the complex motivations and factors that underlie corporate criminal behavior. Eugene Soltes is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Eugene has has been widely quoted by the media including in The Wal…

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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work (with Ian Bremmer) 35:20

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Ian Bremmer, the president of Eurasia Group, and Jeff Schatten discuss globalization, artificial intelligence, the relationship between employment and well-being, and the future of work. Bremmer has authored several books, including the national bestsellers, Every Nation for Itself and The End of the Free Market. Bremmer has published articles in t…

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts (with Susan Cain) 36:27

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Susan Cain and Jeff Schatten discuss the introversion and the ways in which workplaces can better reflect and respect the dynamic range of personalities that makeup the population. Susan Cain is the Chief Revolutionary of Quiet Revolution and the author of the bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can’t Stop Talking, which has b…

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Bedtime Stories for Managers (with Henry Mintzberg) 30:18

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Henry Mintzberg, one of the world’s most influential thinkers in management, and Jeff Schatten discuss a wide range of issues that include leadership as a bottom-up process, the problem of relying on data, and how to stop short-term thinking. Henry Mintzberg is currently a professor at McGill University in Montreal. Mintzberg earned his PhD in mana…

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Ritz-Carlton co-founder Horst Schulze on Building a Humane Hotel Empire 36:32

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Ritz-Carlton co-founder Horst Schulze and Jeff Schatten discuss the founding and growth of the Ritz-Carlton. The conversation covers Horst’s creation of a people-centered corporate culture based on integrity and trust that he applied to employees and customers. During his tenure at The Ritz Carlton, Mr. Schulze served as President and COO responsib…

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Has The Supreme Court Made Corporations King? (with Adam Winkler) 38:14

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UCLA law professor and National Book Award finalist Adam Winkler and Jeff Schatten discuss the way in which corporate power has changed via rulings by The Supreme Court. They delve into the role of corporations in the founding of The United States and how corporations have increased their influence, which culminated in The Citizens United ruling. U…

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How Exceptional Companies Think (with Michael Raynor) 36:32

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Deloitte’s Michael Raynor and Jeff Schatten discuss what separates top performing companies from those that are middle of the pack. They also address the ways in which companies can leverage new big data methods to address goal-setting challenges. Michael Raynor is a managing director at Deloitte. His research and client work is focused on strategy…

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Are Corporations More Innovative Than Startups? (with Gary Pisano) 43:38

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Harvard's Gary Pisano and Jeff Schatten discuss innovation in the corporate space. They explore the ways in which corporations sit at the forefront of innovation. Gary Pisano is a Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development at the Harvard Business School. Pisano is an expert in the fields of technology and …

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Humans vs. Technology (with Douglas Rushkoff) 50:10

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Douglas Rushkoff and Jeff Schatten discuss the complex relationship between modern organizations and technology and the challenges that ubiquitous computing poses for individuals, business and democracy. Douglas Rushkoff was named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who stu…

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Why You Should be a Rebel (with Francesca Gino) 35:09

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Francesca Gino and Jeff Schatten explore rule breaking, rebels with and without a cause, why traditions should be challenged, the role of curiosity, and the (many) benefits of failure. Francesca Gino is a full professor at the Harvard business school. She was chosen by Poets & Quants to be among their "40 under 40", a listing of the world's best bu…

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Shareholder Activism: Investors with Agendas (with Vinay Shandal) 36:35

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Vinay Shandal and Jeff Schatten discuss the opportunities and challenges of shareholder activism. They explore the role of that businesses and corporations have in social causes (environment, 2nd amendment rights, etc.) and how shareholders impact these issues. Further, they discuss how institutional investors influence corporate policies in areas …

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Why Timing is Everything (with Daniel Pink) 51:02

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Daniel Pink and Jeff Schatten explore a wide range of topics on the cutting edge of social science that argues that timing is everything. The conversation covers well-being, management, childhood education, employee performance, and why it’s not so bad to be a night owl. Daniel Pink is the author of six provocative books — including his newest, Whe…

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