TRIUM Connects
Episodes
EP40 - AI – How did we get here and where are we going?
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is becoming ubiquitous in our lives. It shapes how we work, play, interact, create, and even manage our health—and this is only the beginning. To...
E39 - There is Definitely an ‘I’ in Team: Understanding Team Dynamics in Complex Organisations
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the heart of every organization lies a web of relationships: individual performance is shaped by not only a person’s inherent characteristics, bu...
E38 - Europe’s Politics Are Changing: The Rise of the Challenger Parties
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can we understand the decline of establishment political parties and the rise of new, successful challengers in Europe? Why are these new cha...
E37 - What comes next? Putting current attacks on the global market into a historic context
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The policies in the first 100 days of the Trump administration have resulted in an extraordinary time of uncertainty and change in the way the global ...
E36 - A Unified Theory of Finance: The Corporate Life Cycle
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are all born, become toddlers, teenagers, adults, mid-aged, late middle aged, and eventually die. Do company’s follow this same pattern? If ...
E35 - A Perfect Storm – Tragedy in the Middle East
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this episode of Fawaz Gerges of the London School of Economics where he is the Emirates Professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies...
E34 - What comes next? The slow death of the neo-liberal world view
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Across the world, the rise of various forms of authoritarianism and ethno-nationalism seems to be on an ever upward trend. This creates huge unce...
E33 - The Learning Leader
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Once in a while you come across a person who embodies, in their thoughts and deeds, a kind of archetype or ideal form of a role – the great artist, ...
E32 - Re-Inventing Your Business Model
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this episode is Laurence Lehmann-Ortega. Laurence is one of the world’s leading experts on how existing firms can create innovativ...
E31 - Becoming You
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I am delighted to be joined by Suzy Welch for this episode. Suzy has had an amazing career! After graduating from Harvard, she became a crime beat rep...
EP30 - Reading China in the Original
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Occasionally you read a book that changes the way you think about a topic or a place. The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by ...
E29 - China in Latin America
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I am guessing that most of you have heard about Chinese firms and government’s large involvement and investment in Africa. For example, as part...
E28 - The 2023 Banking Crisis: Can we Trust the Regulators?
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2008, at the height of the global financial crisis, 25 US banks failed. Their combined asset value was equal to $526 billion (adjusted for inflatio...
E27 - Upwards Influence – The Art and Science of Being Heard
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Upwards Influence – The Art and Science of Being HeardOver the last several decades, more and more leadership research has highlighted the need for ...
E26 - Respect Me! The Role of Status Concerns in International Relations
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Explanations of individual’s political affiliations which do not take non-material into account are fatally flawed. We simply cannot explain or...
E25 - The key to successful innovation = lots and lots of ideas.
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Search Amazon for the word ‘innovation’ in its ‘Business, Finance & Accounting’ book section, and you will find more than 60,000 volumes.&...
E24 - Keeping Safe in a Digital World
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We have all become aware how important data is as everything becomes more digitalised. Data is everywhere – nearly our every moment and movement is ...
E23 - Synthetic Biology: We Need to Talk…
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are at the start of a time when humans will be able to program cells and organisms in analogous ways to which we now program computers. Our te...
E22 - It’s All About the People
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does being a fabulously successful, early stage VC investor have in common with being a world class CEO? The answer, according to Jihoon Rim, my ...
E21 - Adding a 'P' to ESG
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last 10-20 years we have seen the rise and rise of populist and nationalist movements in democracies across the world. This, in part, re...
E20 - War in Ukraine: The Limits and Strengths of an Interdependent World
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I am joined in this episode by Professor Mick Cox of the LSE to discuss the unfolding tragic war in Ukraine. How do we possibly make sense of wha...
E19 - Social Media and Social Pathology: Why and How to Hold Platforms Responsible for Harm
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I am joined in this episode by Professor Vasant Dhar where we talk about why social media platforms should be regulated and how we would go about doin...
E18 - Stewards of the Future: Can and Should we Count on Boards to do the Right Thing?
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Increasingly, company boards are expected to incorporate environmental, social and governance issues into their strategic choices and performance crit...
E17 - Supply Chain Management in Transition: What has COVID taught us about the weaknesses of how we manage supply chains?
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How should we view the current crisis in our supply chains? Did the external shock of COVID create severe, but relatively temporary problems?&nbs...
E16 - Democratic Dilemmas – When should democratically derived choices in the past bind our current and future democratic choices?
27 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How and when should we decide today what areas of future public policy we are not prepared to trust our future selves to make wisely? In other words, ...
E15 - Making Sense of the Space Economy: Myths, Sideshows and Promise
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are we at the start of a new and glorious age of space tourism led by private investment? Is this the first step to a potentially massive space-b...
E14 - World Class Entrepreneurship in Africa: Turning Challenges into Opportunities
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this episode is Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede (TRIUM Class of 2016). Aig is a world class finance and social entrepreneur. In 2002 he acqu...
E13 - Is Marketing Really a Black Hole? How to bridge the gap between finance and marketing
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this episode is Chris Burggraeve. Chris is a practitioner scholar of the art and science of marketing. His corporate marketing care...
E12 - Private Equity: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this episode is Oliver Gottschalg. Oliver is the Academic Dean of the TRIUM Global EMBA program and an Associate Professor of Strategy an...
E11 - An Anti-Populist Manifesto: A New Social Contract for the 21st Century
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this episode is Baroness Minouche Shafik. Minouche is the Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science and one o...
E10 - Video Games: How Innovation in Technology, Strategy, Process and Artistic Production has Created a Mega-Industry.
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this episode is Joost Van Dreunen. Joost is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University.&n...
E9 - Moderna, COVID-19 and the Promise of mRNA
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this episode is Marcello Damiani (TRIUM Class of 2015). Marcello is the Chief Digital and Operational Excellence Officer at Moderna....
E8 - Want to Value a Firm? Better Know and Value its Story
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this episode is Aswath Damodaran. Aswath is a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University (Kerschner...
E7 - What Role for Justice in the Creation and Implementation of International Climate Agreements
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this episode is Robert Falkner. Robert is a TRIUM Academic Director, an Associate Professor of International Relations and the Director o...
E6 - Wealth is Changing Politics, but Not How You Think
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this episode is Andrew Walter. Andrew and I were the first TRIUM co-Academic Directors for the London School of Economics and he has...
E5 - Leadership in a Disrupted World
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this episode is Randy White. Randy is the co-Chair of the leadership stream for the EMBA at HEC (Qatar) and a long-time professor of...
E4 - The Rise and Fall of Competitive Markets: The US is in Trouble
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this episode is Thomas Phillippon, the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at New York University, Stern School of Business. In this podcas...
E3 - Embedded Sustainability as a Competitive Advantage
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this episode is Tensie Whelan, Clinical Professor for Business and Society and the Director of NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Busin...
E2 - Keynes, Cox and the Current Crisis
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this episode is Michael Cox, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the LSE. We start with a discussion of John Maynard Keynes’...
E1 - Making Smart (and not so Smart) Decisions
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My first guest is Olivier Sibony. Olivier is one of the world’s top scholars in the field of behavioural strategy and strategic decision making...