Best BCG Henderson Institute Podcasts (2024)

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Critical Systems Thinking with Michael C. Jackson 30:22

1h ago30:22

30:22

In Critical Systems Thinking: A Practitioner's Guide, Michael C. Jackson emphasizes the need for integrating diverse systems methodologies to navigate complexity and uncertainty. Jackson, a professor of management systems and former dean of Hull University Business School, has also served as president of several prominent systems thinking organizat…

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Deep Utopia with Nick Bostrom 26:02

13d ago26:02

26:02

There is no shortage of technologists touting the promise of AI, but the frontier of AI fervor is a noted philosopher who thinks the economy could double every few months—and that space colonization by self-replicating machines may not be hundreds of years away. Enter Nick Bostrom, who previously authored the 2014 bestseller Superintelligence about…

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The Great Disconnect with Marco Magnani 27:37

29d ago27:37

27:37

In The Great Disconnect: Hopes and Fears After the Excess of Globalization, Marco Magnani explores the factors that are driving the crisis of globalization we are currently experiencing. Magnani teaches international economics at LUISS University in Rome and Università Cattolica in Milan. Previously, he was a senior research fellow at the Harvard K…

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Assembling Tomorrow with Scott Doorley and Carissa Carter 28:23

2M ago28:23

28:23

In Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future, Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley explore the intangible forces that make it hard to anticipate how new technologies create impact and what we can do about this challenge during the design process for new applications. Carter is the Director of Teaching and Learning at the Hasso Plattne…

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How to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein 41:04

2M ago41:04

41:04

In How to Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be, Cass Sunstein reveals why some individuals become celebrities—and others don’t. Sunstein has long been at the forefront of behavioral economics. He is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School and served as the administrator of the Wh…

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The Ritual Effect with Michael Norton 26:01

3M ago26:01

26:01

In The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions, Michael Norton explores how the little things we do can create big impact. Norton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he also leads the unit for negotiation, organization, and markets. A well kno…

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Survive, Reset, Thrive with Rebecca Homkes 31:01

3M ago31:01

31:01

In Survive, Reset, Thrive: Leading Breakthrough Growth Strategy in Volatile Times, Rebecca Homkes guides leaders on how to turn uncertainty into opportunity. Homkes teaches business strategy at the London Business School, is on the faculty of Duke Corporate Education, and consults major companies on strategy. She has developed a framework for leadi…

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Perspectives on the Future with Esther Dyson, Rita McGrath, and Gary Shteyngart 37:52

4M ago37:52

37:52

At the BCG Henderson Institute, we aim to bring forward-looking leaders the ideas and inspirations that will shape their next game. To honor this mission—and celebrate the 100th episode of our Thinkers & Ideas podcast—we welcomed three leading futurists to discuss the evolution of business and society. Rita McGrath is a professor of management at C…

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Look Again with Cass Sunstein 31:27

5M ago31:27

31:27

In Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There, Cass Sunstein, together with his co-author Tali Sharot, discusses the importance of reevaluating the familiar to discover new insights. Sunstein has long been at the forefront of behavioral economics. He is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School and served as the ad…

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Why We Die with Venki Ramakrishnan 31:34

5M ago31:34

31:34

In Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality, Venki Ramakrishnan explores the current research on and prospects for human longevity. Ramakrishnan leads a group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. For his research on the structure and function of ribosomes, he won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemis…

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Making Sense of Chaos with Doyne Farmer 30:11

6M ago30:11

30:11

In Making Sense of Chaos: A better economics for a better world, J. Doyne Farmer challenges traditional economic models, which rely on simplistic assumptions and fail to provide accurate predictions. Farmer, a complex systems scientist at the University of Oxford and the Santa Fe Institute, argues that with technological advances in data science an…

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Co-Intelligence with Ethan Mollick 32:28

6M ago32:28

32:28

In Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, Ethan Mollick explains how to engage with AI as a co-worker, a co-teacher, and a coach. Mollick is a professor of management at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies and teaches innovation and entrepreneurship. In his new book, he discusses the profound imp…

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The Intelligence of Intuition with Gerd Gigerenzer 30:32

6M ago30:32

30:32

In The Intelligence of Intuition, Gerd Gigerenzer challenges a commonly held view of intuition—namely, that it is somehow inferior to logical rationality. Gigerenzer is director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the University of Potsdam, director emeritus of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Hu…

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Climate Capitalism with Akshat Rathi 29:30

7M ago29:30

29:30

In Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions, Akshat Rathi tells the stories of people around the world who are building impactful solutions to tackle climate change. Rathi is a senior reporter for Bloomberg News, focusing on climate and energy. He also hosts the weekly Zero podcast, in which he talks to the people leading the f…

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Slow Down with Kohei Saito 29:03

7M ago29:03

29:03

In Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto, Kohei Saito explores the relationship between capitalism and the climate crisis. He argues, controversially, that to have any chance of achieving true sustainability, we must move to a system which deemphasizes growth, adopts different metrics of progress, expands the commons, and places value on goods and serv…

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Higher Ground with Alison Taylor 27:48

8M ago27:48

27:48

In Higher Ground: How Businesses Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World, Alison Taylor explores how companies can navigate the complexity of modern business ethics. Taylor, a clinical associate professor at NYU Stern, has spent decades advising large multinational companies on risk, corruption, sustainability, and organizational culture. In he…

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The Friction Project with Bob Sutton 28:36

8M ago28:36

28:36

In The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder, Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao share insights on friction—the forces that make it harder, slower, more complicated, or even impossible to get things done in organizations. Sutton is an expert on organizational psychology at Stanford University and a best-…

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Permacrisis with Mohamed El-Erian and Michael Spence 35:00

10M ago35:00

35:00

In Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World, Mohamed El-Erian and Michael Spence, along with their coauthors, Gordon Brown and Reid Lidow, consider how we’ve arrived at this state of constant instability and insecurity—and suggest concrete ways to break the cycle. Mohamed El-Erian, president of Queens’ College Cambridge University, was previous…

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The Worlds I See with Dr. Fei-Fei Li 29:08

10M ago29:08

29:08

In The Worlds I See, Dr. Fei-Fei Li provides a personal and deeply insightful depiction of two convergent journeys. One describes her own life and career; Li immigrated to the U.S. from China at age 15, and within a few years had launched into research in computer vision and AI. The other is a history of AI, which has involved many breakthroughs ov…

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The Secret of Culture Change with Jay Barney 27:54

10M ago27:54

27:54

In his new book The Secret of Culture Change: How To Build Authentic Stories That Transform Your Organization, Jay Bryan Barney discusses why changing company culture is sometimes necessary but always challenging—and how the power of stories can help leaders mobilize their employees around a new strategy. Jay Barney, a professor of strategic manage…

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The Geek Way with Andrew McAfee 26:56

11M ago26:56

26:56

In The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results, Andrew McAfee describes how a new approach to corporate culture based on science, ownership, speed, and openness, is driving value creation in the 21st century. McAfee is an expert on how technological progress changes the world, being named to both the Thinkers50 list of top m…

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Head & Heart with Dr. Kirstin Ferguson 23:30

11M ago23:30

23:30

In Head & Heart: The Art of Modern Leadership, Dr. Kirstin Ferguson provides a practical guide to balancing the rational and emotional components of leadership. Ferguson is an expert on leadership, an experienced leader in the private and public sectors, and a longtime advocate of gender equity. In her new book, she identifies the key attributes of…

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How to Work with (Almost) Anyone with Michael Bungay Stanier 28:44

12M ago28:44

28:44

In How to Work with (Almost) Anyone, Michael Bungay Stanier outlines how to set up working relationships for the best chance of success—by following a process of thorough preparation, a keystone conversation, and regular maintenance. Bungay Stanier, founder of coaching firm Box of Crayons, is a world-renowned thought leader on coaching and author o…

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Big Bets with Rajiv Shah 29:02

12M ago29:02

29:02

In his new book, Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens, Rajiv Shah, President of the Rockefeller Foundation recounts his experiences and lessons learned over decades of effecting large-scale social change. He shares how addressing humanity’s thorniest challenges requires a big bets mindset – pushing to solve, rather than merely improve, p…

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Mixed Signals with Uri Gneezy 26:16

1y ago26:16

26:16

In his new book,  Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work,  Uri Gneezy explains why leaders often create incentives that are misaligned with their organization’s goals. Gneezy, the Epstein/Atkinson Chair in Management Leadership at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management, is one of the world’s leading experts in behavioral economics, and his ins…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

BCG Henderson Institute Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Thinkers & Ideas

BCG Henderson Institute

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Critical Systems Thinking with Michael C. Jackson 30:22

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Deep Utopia with Nick Bostrom 26:02

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The Great Disconnect with Marco Magnani 27:37

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Assembling Tomorrow with Scott Doorley and Carissa Carter 28:23

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How to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein 41:04

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The Ritual Effect with Michael Norton 26:01

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Survive, Reset, Thrive with Rebecca Homkes 31:01

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Perspectives on the Future with Esther Dyson, Rita McGrath, and Gary Shteyngart 37:52

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Look Again with Cass Sunstein 31:27

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Why We Die with Venki Ramakrishnan 31:34

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Making Sense of Chaos with Doyne Farmer 30:11

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Co-Intelligence with Ethan Mollick 32:28

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The Intelligence of Intuition with Gerd Gigerenzer 30:32

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Climate Capitalism with Akshat Rathi 29:30

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Slow Down with Kohei Saito 29:03

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Higher Ground with Alison Taylor 27:48

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The Friction Project with Bob Sutton 28:36

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Permacrisis with Mohamed El-Erian and Michael Spence 35:00

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The Worlds I See with Dr. Fei-Fei Li 29:08

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The Secret of Culture Change with Jay Barney 27:54

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The Geek Way with Andrew McAfee 26:56

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Head & Heart with Dr. Kirstin Ferguson 23:30

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How to Work with (Almost) Anyone with Michael Bungay Stanier 28:44

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Big Bets with Rajiv Shah 29:02

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Mixed Signals with Uri Gneezy 26:16

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