unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc
Episodes
Perfectly Confident and Good Judgment: Your Keys to Succeeding in Life feat. Don Moore
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can overconfidence harm you? Despite popular belief, psychologists and experts state that overconfidence can also lead to failure. Avoiding a differen...
Why We Work: Breaking Down the Psychological and Economic Factors of a Great Workplace feat. Barry Schwartz
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you confine an animal in a box with nothing to do but push a lever to disperse food? According to a study by the American psychologi...
The Lessons They Didn’t Teach You in Business School feat. Jay Barney
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taking a one-sided approach to entrepreneurship and business won't work. The key to success in business is to put different skill sets from your toolb...
Understanding Carry Trades feat. Kevin Coldiron
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What clues can carry trading give us about the past two decades of international economic downturns?Kevin Coldiron is a Lecturer at UC Berkeley's Haas...
Analyzing the Meaning of “Free Speech” feat. Stanley Fish
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does the First Amendment really work? Why is it important to understand the difference between free speech and free action? What role, if any, sho...
Markets, Risk, and Human Interaction feat. Richard Bookstaber
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A Demon Of Our Own Design is a provocative title for a first book. But that's just the kind of work Richard Bookstaber does.Richard has been a practit...
The Value of Storytelling in Economics featl. Charles Wheelan
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Publishing a book with no graphs is quite the feat in the world of economics. But that’s part of Charles Wheelan’s mission: using storytelling to ...
The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic feat. Joshua Gans
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford health economics professor Jay Bhattacharya has said that the coronavirus is one of the biggest failures of the economics profession. And whe...
Pulling Back the Curtain on Venture Capital feat. Scott Kupor
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020, venture capitalists invested about $150 billion into U.S. start-ups, according to the data company, Crunchbase. According to the San Diego Un...
The Power of Social Pressure feat. Robert Frank
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Although it’s usually associated with teenagers, psychologists and economists have long understood that “peer pressure” is not limited to adoles...
What Primate Behavior Can (and Can’t) Tell Us About Human Behavior feat. Richard Wrangham
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can the distinct habits of chimps and bonobos inform us about human evolution and behavior?Today we speak with Richard Wrangham, a research profes...
Biological Economics and Human Behavior feat. Terry Burnham
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Terry Burnham is a Professor of Finance at Chapman University, and an author whose works include Mean Genes and Mean Markets And Lizard Brains.But ...
How Leaders Can Evolve, Innovate, and Increase the Life Expectancy of their Organizations feat. Charles O’Reilly III
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The average life expectancy of a company on the S&P 500 is less than half of what it was 60 years ago. How have some companies managed to adapt and ev...
Teaching our Teachers to Teach feat. Daniel Willingham
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The ethics of teaching are in the news daily as the pandemic continues to upend everything we know about education. Looking forward, how can we better...
The Benefits of Lifelong Learning feat. Tom Vanderbilt
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When was the last time you learned a new skill? Maybe you’ve always wanted to teach yourself how to rollerblade, to speak French, or to woodwork. Wh...