Good Disruption
Episodes
Good Disruption: Episode 30 - Disruption 101
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Our fourth season kicks off with a mini course on disruptive innovation. What is it and what are the markers of a major technological shift? Mike and ...
Good Disruption: Episode 29 - Season 3 Recap
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we end our third season, Yael and Mike reflect on the disruptive technologies explored over the last year. It was an interesting mix of good, bad, ...
Good Disruption: Episode 28 - Large Language Models (LLMs)
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Large language models (LLMs) offer powerful opportunities for automation, creativity, and knowledge access. With 800 million people using ChatGPT alon...
Good Disruption: Episode 27 - Commercial Drones
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine ordering food from Door Dash and it’s delivered to your doorstep within minutes, not by a driver, but a drone. For residents in Dallas-Fort ...
Good Disruption: Episode 26 - GLP-1 Medications for Weight Loss
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Serena Williams recently made headlines for her promotion of GLP-1 medications. The tennis super star is one of a growing list of celebrities turning ...
Good Disruption: Episode 25 - Small Nuclear
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI requires data, lots of it. Tech companies are rapidly building new data centers to house it, which will require massive amounts of electricity. H...
Good Disruption: Episode 24 - Quantum Computing
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you ask Marvel Comics fans about quantum physics, they might reference time travel, multiverse, quantum realm, and Dr. Strange. Ideas of science fi...
Good Disruption: Episode 23 - Digital Twins
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine testing a new medical device without putting someone on an operating table. Or experimenting with new autonomous capabilities without placing ...
Good Disruption: Episode 22 - Humanoid Robots
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Wall-E and the Iron Giant to I Robot and Terminator, Hollywood has portrayed robots as friendly and misunderstood but also a technology to be fea...
Good Disruption: Episode 21 - Reflecting on 2024
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In their end-of-year wrap-up, UVA Darden School of Business professors Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Mike Lenox discuss the impact of AI, and the rise of ...
Good Disruption: Episode 20 - Electronic Voting
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From “hanging chads” to claims of “rigged” Dominion voting machines, the technological improvements to voting technology aimed at improving ef...
Good Disruption: Episode 19 - Distributed Energy Resources (DERs)
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For more than a century, utility-scale power plants have delivered electricity to millions of customers through a vast grid of connected substations, ...
Good Disruption: Episode 18 - Social Media
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Social media is one of the biggest and most controversial disruptions in the last decade, arguably the last several decades. More than 5 billion peopl...
Good Disruption: Episode 17 - AI Companions
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines companion as “one that accompanies another” and “one that keeps company with another”. From physical...
Good Disruption: Episode 16 - Vertical Farming
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s talk lettuce. Every year Americans consume 30 pounds of lettuce per capita, a fivefold increase from the previous century, with more than 90% ...
Good Disruption: Episode 15 - Autonomous Vehicles
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gen Xers will remember Knight Rider, a television show in the 1980s about a crime fighter who battles bad guys with the help of a technologically adva...
Good Disruption: Episode 14 - Digital Fashion
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Garments that respond to body movements, intricate laced dresses using plastics and resins, highly sculpted pieces with complex geometric shapes. The ...
BONUS EPISODE: Disruptors Every CEO Needs to be Prepared for in 2024
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From the explosion of Generative AI to the evolution of the hybrid workplace, disruption has become the “norm” for business. How will business and...
Good Disruption: Episode 13 - One Year Anniversary: A Look Back
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Anniversary to Good Disruption! It's been an interesting year of good, bad, and no disruptions. From generative AI, NFTs, and cryptocurrency to ...
Good Disruption: Episode 12 - AI + Entertainment
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The proliferation of AI has given rise to fear of job replacement across many industries, including entertainment. Technologies like Chat GPT and AI-f...
Good Disruption: Episode 11 - The Virtual Workplace
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID pandemic forced people to work from home and left many questioning the value of going back into the office. Employee surveys suggest that mo...
Good Disruption: Episode 10 - Renewable Energy
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One quarter of greenhouse gas emissions in the US is attributed to electricity production. Greening the grid is critical to our ability to decarbonize...
Good Disruption: Episode 9- NFTs
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s first tweet – "just setting up my twttr" – sold for more than $2.9 million. Bored Ape Yacht Club digital art pi...
Good Disruption: Episode 8 - Generative AI
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Deepfakes once used purely for entertainment purposes are becoming more pervasive on social media and, in some alarming cases, more sinister. Take las...
BONUS EPISODE: Good Disruptors - Women in Sustainability
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here on the Good Disruption podcast we talk a lot about technologies, but what about the person behind the disruption? To tackle wicked problems lik...
Good Disruption: Episode 7 - Personalized Health
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For many patients battling disease, working with their doctors to find the most effective treatment can be a painful exercise of trial and error. What...
Good Disruption: Episode 6 - The Metaverse
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018, Director Steven Spielberg released the movie Ready Player One. Set in the year 2045, the movie depicts a virtual world, Oasis, where players ...
Good Disruption: Episode 5 - Clean Meat
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Livestock farming represents more than 60% of agriculture GHG emissions. Cattle account for most of these emissions and are the primary drivers of def...
Good Disruption: Episode 4 - AI and Music
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827, he left his 10th symphony unfinished. Working off just a few musical sketches and notes by the composer, a tea...
Good Disruption: Episode 3 - Online Learning
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ten years ago, a group of Stanford professors founded Coursera, an online education platform that allows university partners to offer courses using a ...
Good Disruption: Episode 2 - Cryptocurrency
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bitcoin. Tether. Dogecoin. These are some of the most popular cryptocurrencies being traded around the world. The sheer number of crypto options avail...
Good Disruption: Episode 1 - Electric Vehicles
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The automobile industry is in the middle of a significant disruption. Initially led by Tesla, new companies like Rivian and Lucid are emerging while G...
Good Disruption: Episode 0 - An Introduction
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to "Good Disruption", a lively discussion between UVA Darden School of Business Professors Mike Lenox and Yael Grushka-Cockayne on cutting edg...