The Business
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Health Care is Every Company’s Business
19 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Every company is in the health care business, no matter its industry. So says John Quelch, a professor at both the Harvard Business School and the Har...
You Don’t Know @Jack: Twitter’s Founder Talks Entrepreneurship
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Twitter’s Founder, Jack Dorsey, talks about the history of Twitter, the founding of Square, and how he made the transition from programmer to CEO.
Philanthropy 2.0: Investing with a Purpose
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
HBS alumnus Sir Ronald Cohen, founder of Apax Partners and known as the father of venture capital in Great Britain, sits down with CMO Brian Kenny on ...
Man of the Year-Up: Creating Opportunity for Young Adults
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Year-Up, a business taking low-income 18 to 24 year olds from poverty to a professional career, seems more relevant than ever with business profession...
Not Your Basic Business Books
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
What books would guests on The Business give as holiday gifts? Listen for what Mitch Weiss, Dan Koh, Nancy Koehn, Max Bazerman, Frank Cespedes, and ho...
Ernest Shackleton: The Entrepreneur of Survival
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
On the 100th Anniversary of explorer Ernest Shakleton’s colossal failure to traverse Antarctica, professor and historian Nancy Koehn explains how Sh...
The Men Behind the Mayors: How Business Can Impact Government
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
HBS Alumni Dan Koh (MBA 2011) and Senior Lecturer Mitch Weiss (MBA 2004) both served as Chief of Staff to the Mayors of Boston. Under the guidance of ...
The Revival of a Salesman: The Importance of Sales and Strategy to Business
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Frank Cespedes sits down to talk to Brian Kenny about his new book “Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that ...
Collective Genius
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to know what “collective genius” can look like, watch a Pixar film. Pixar Animation Studios produce the first computer generated (cg) ...
Investing for Real and Permanent Good
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Carnegie Corporation co-Chief Investment Officers Kim Lew (MBA 1992) and Meredith Jenkins (MBA 1999) talk about investment with a mission, what it’s...
The Fourth Revolution: the Global Race to Reinvent the State
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian Wooldridge, management editor and Schumpeter columnist at The Economist magazine, on his new book, The Fourth Revolution: the Global Race to Re...
When Girl Meets Oil
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Christine Bader, author of The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil talks about what corporate social responsibility really means to...
Inside Bloomberg, Inc. with Chairman Peter Grauer
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
When former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg left Bloomberg, Inc. to take office, he handed the reins to Peter Grauer. Grauer talks with The Business ...
Can China Lead?
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A little over 100 years ago, the Chinese empire fell. 2000 years of imperial tradition ended, virtually overnight. After a century of searching for it...
Privacy and Productivity
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Harvard Business School Professor Ethan Bernstein talks about how, by planting researchers on factory lines in China, he found that giving employees m...
3 Ways to Innovate in a Stagnant Environment
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
HBS Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter on innovation, advanced leadership, and how to make change in an inflexible organization. She also tells Brian why ...
Carrying the (Olympic) Torch for Women's Sports
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
HBS student and four-time Olympic medalist Angela Ruggiero just got back from the Russian town of Sochi, where she carried the Olympic torch on openin...
The Real Rick's Cafe – Building a Business in Casablanca
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
You may remember Rick’s Café Americain as the gin joint in the movie Casablanca. For years Rick’s existed only on film. When Kathy Kriger, an Ame...
Stayin’ Alive: Technology and the End of Institutions
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
What happens to institutions when technology gives people the power to do everything on their own? Today it is easier than ever for individuals to sta...
The World is Anything but Flat
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Harvard Business School Professor John Quelch, author of All Business: Why Place Matters More Than Ever in a Global, Virtual World talks about the inc...
Saving the Earth is Good Business
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
World Wildlife Fund President and CEO Carter Roberts talks about why businesses need the planet just as much as the planet needs businesses.
Year Up: Why Investing in Young Adults Makes Sense
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Gerald Chertavian is founder and CEO of Year Up, a one-year professional skill development program for low income young adults. He talks with Brian ab...
Make Big Bets: How Blockbuster Strategies Work
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
What do Jay Z, Harry Potter and Grand Theft Auto have in common? They're hugely successful thanks to blockbuster strategies. HBS professor Anita Elber...
Connecting Communities to Improve Post-Disaster Recovery
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Disaster recovery platform Recovers.org emerged from the wreckage of a tornado that tore through a small town in Western Massachusetts. Co-founder Mor...
Comeback Kids: How the Boston Red Sox went from last place to World Series
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Last year at this time the Boston Red Sox had already packed up their lockers and headed home after finishing last in their American League East divis...
Reading the Tea Leaves: Sourcing News from Chinese Social Media
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
David Wertime is a founding editor of the online magazine Tea Leaf Nation. The site features English-language news stories about China, sourced entire...
Currency: Gautam Mukunda on Syria and Presidential Leadership in Times of Crisis
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
As the world waits for an end to the crisis in Syria, President Obama is facing arguably the most challenging foreign policy situation of his presiden...
Success Spreads like Wildfire
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) never expected to start a company. She talks to Brian about her journey from a small New Zealand farming community to co-fo...
Authentic Leadership and the Defense of Marriage Act
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
HBS Professor of Management Practice Bill George discusses the US Supreme Court decision to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, also known as DOMA, an...
Happy Money, The Science Of Smarter Spending
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This week Brian talks to Michael I. Norton, co-author of the book Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, about why Mike says changing how we sp...
Words of Business Wisdom
11 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There is no time like the new year to make a resolution to be a better (business) you! Some of our guests from the past year share the best advice the...
The Serial Entrepreneur: From E-Readers to Nuclear Fission
11 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
: Russ Wilcox (MBA 1995) has helped revolutionize the publishing and nuclear energy industry as the co-founder of E Ink and Transatomic Power. He is a...
Blinded by the Light: Avoiding the Blind Spots of Leadership
11 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
From post 9/11 to the Catholic Church and Penn State Football, many notable organizations have “leadership blind spots”. Professor Max Bazerman ta...