The So What from BCG
Episodes
Beating the Digital Natives at Their Own Game
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Are traditional companies, long derided for being sluggish and stuck in the past, about to undergo a renaissance? Patrick Forth, of BCG’s Technology...
BCG presents: In Her Ellement - Growing in Tech with Women Who Code's Alaina Percival
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The future of the tech industry depends on women. So how do you grow that tech career, and why is imposter syndrome sometimes a good thing? In this ep...
Talent Is Universal. Opportunity Is Not.
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Johann Harnoss doesn’t just advise companies on innovation and global talent mobility. He also has cofounded a nonprofit organization to help studen...
How Can the World Achieve Health Equality?
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In an interconnected world, global health is not just a scientific aspiration but an economic one. As supply shortages brought on by factory shutdowns...
To Reduce Emissions, You Have To Measure Them
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Companies will never achieve net zero unless they can measure their emissions, and few of them do it successfully. Only about one in ten companies acc...
What to Teach the World of the Future
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While the world races ahead into the metaverse, education remains rooted in the era of neat orderly rows of desks and lesson plans. In this wide-rangi...
We Need More Tim Cooks in the C-Suite
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past two years, the world has seen what happens when supply and procurement chains seize up and shortages in such staples as infant formula a...
Why Being Out at Work Matters
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A Pride@BCG leader talks about how a supportive culture unlocks creativity. For Dakota Santana-Grace, being out at work is a professional necessity as...
How Can My Shopping Save The Planet?
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Corporate leaders often view sustainable products as a series of technical challenges—how to decarbonize the supply chain, reduce waste in manufactu...
Rewriting the Unwritten Rules at Work
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nan DasGupta played soccer in her youth and worked as an engineer at GE early in her career, so she has firsthand experience breaking into male-domina...
Rich Lesser on Climate, Hard Truths, and Hope
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Businesses that lead on climate and sustainability will have tailwinds at their back, says Rich Lesser, BCG’s global chair. Reaching net zero will r...
When A Paycheck Is Not Enough
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pay, promotion, and benefits have been the traditional carrots for hiring and retaining employees. But what happens when they are not enough? During t...
To Uncertainty and Beyond in the Travel Industry
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the travel industry slowly awakens from the pandemic-induced slumber, airlines, hotel chains, and cruise lines face a highly uncertain and volatile...
Why Tech Needs Women to Change the World
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Neveen Awad, the daughter of an engineer, learned early in life “how fun it was to make machines do something.” As the only computer science major...
Imagine If Companies Were Better at Imagination
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why do CEOs struggle with the act of imagination when it comes naturally to 5-year-olds? And what happens when people and organizations seemingly lose...
Are You Bridging or Broadening the Racial Wealth Gap?
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Organizations often view inclusion, along with its cousins diversity and equity, as a goal. But what if they start viewing it as a practice, an active...
Your Brain Is Being Strip-Mined
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cell phones, social media, messaging software, and multitasking are robbing our attention, as our monkey minds jump from one notification to another. ...
Watch Your Language
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ashley Grice finds great joy, meaning, and sometimes peril in words. As the CEO of BCG BrightHouse, Grice helps organizations find their purpose. Word...
Happy Holidays, and See You in 2022!
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The So What from BCG is taking a short break over the holidays - if you’re celebrating, I hope you’re having a lovely time.We’ve been hard at wo...
Can We Fix Supply Chains in 2022 ?
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the pandemic rumbles on, many countries have been suffering shortages and panic buying as global supply chains wobble. Much of that&...
Why the Way We Work Is Broken
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic has exposed fissures in the way we work, which is stuck in the industrial age. Deborah Lovich, who leads BCG’s people strategy topic, a...
A Culture of Experimentation
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can organizations become more experimental? Julia Dhar, the cofounder and leader of BeSmart, BCG’s behavioral economics and insights initiative,...
Across the Luxury Metaverse
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lil Miquela, a 19-year-old TikTok influencer with more than 3 million followers, has promoted Calvin Klein, Prada, and other top fashion brands. She a...
Net Zero Will Pay for Itself
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Most transitions are hard—the transition to net zero is especially so. But with political will, new business models, and major investments, saving t...
Uncertainty Advantage
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Uncertainty is not a dirty word. While it may be impossible to predict the future, preparing for it is possible. Alan Iny, BCG’s partner and directo...
The So What from BCG: Getting Down to Business
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast gets straight to the point of ideas that will shape and disrupt the future. Award-winning British journalist Georgie Frost interviews the...