Demystifying Organizations show

Demystifying Organizations

Summary: This management podcast tackles the big questions about leading organizations from some of the greatest thinkers of our time. Jeff Schatten PhD, a business professor at Washington and Lee University and in partnership with McGraw Hill Education, has conversations with top intellectuals, influencers and business executives about challenging topics that are essential to successful 21st century organizations-- insights you never knew you wanted to know.

Podcasts:

 How Digital Winners Set Direction, Learn, and Adapt (w/ Arun Arora) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:24

Arun Arora is a partner at McKinsey with over 25 years of experience managing operations for US-based and multinational companies. He has extensive expertise in all environments, including digital, retail, and omnichannel. Arun specializes in helping clients transform their business and overall customer experience by harnessing the power of technology. We discuss his new book “Fast Times: How Digital Winners Set Direction, Learn, and Adapt.”

 Managing Algorithms (w/ Jennifer Logg) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:18

Jennifer Logg is an Assistant Professor of Management at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business​.  Prior to joining Georgetown, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University. Logg’s research examines how people expect algorithmic and human judgment to differ.  In this podcast, we discuss a wide range of issues surrounding algorithms and decision making.

 Disunited Nations (w/ Peter Zeihan) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 42:37

Peter Zeihan is an expert in geopolitics: the study of how place impacts financial, economic, cultural, political and military developments. Mr. Zeihan has been featured in, and cited by, numerous newspapers and broadcasts including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, AP, Bloomberg, CNN, ABC, The New York Times, Fox News and MarketWatch. His new book is now available "Disunited Nations."

 Emotional Agility (w/ Susan David) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 30:14

Susan David is one of the world’s leading management thinkers and an award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist. We discuss her new #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling book, Emotional Agility. Susan’s TED Talk on the topic went viral with over 1 million views in its first week of release. Susan was named on the Thinkers50 global list of the top management thinkers.

 Opportunity and Risk in Venture Capital (w/ Josh Wolfe) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:04

Josh Wolfe is the co-founder and managing partner of Lux Capital,  a venture capital fund with $2.5 billion under management that invests in emerging science and technology ventures at the outermost edges of what is possible.  Josh is a columnist with Forbes and Editor for the Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report. He has been invited to The White House and Capitol Hill to advise on nanotechnology and emerging technologies, and a lecturer at MIT and Harvard.

 The Unintended Consequences of Diversity Initiatives (w/ Lisa Leslie) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:51

Lisa Leslie is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Leslie's research focuses on strategies for facilitating social justice and strong performance in diverse organizations. She also conducts research in the related areas of cross-cultural organizational behavior and conflict management.

 Confronting Gender Inequality (w/ Robin Ely) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:38

Robin Ely a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on leadership, identity, and organizational culture change. Examples of her past research include studies of men and masculinity on offshore oil platforms and the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance. Her work is published in many of the top management journals. 

 It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work (w/ Jason Fried) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 38:17

Jason Fried is the co-founder and CEO of Basecamp, a software development company. Jason is the author of many books, including his recent “It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work.” The Economist wrote, “Their book is funny, well-written and iconoclastic and by far the best thing on management published this year.” And I second that opinion.

 Big Tech and Data Privacy (w/ Leslie John) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:19

Leslie K. John is a Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Leslie is a behavioral scientist who studies how people make decisions, and the wisdom or error of those decisions. In her primary line of research, Leslie studies privacy decision-making, identifying what drives people to share or withhold personal information, as well as their reactions to firms’ and employers’ use of their personal data. She joins me on the podcast to discuss current issues with data privacy.

 Serving a life sentence (w/ Travis May and Keramet Reiter) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:59:00

Part I- Travis May committed 5 armed robberies at the age of 16.  Travis tells his remarkable, inspiring story. Part II- Keramet Reiter is an associate professor of criminology, law and society at the UC Irvine School of Social Ecology.  Keramet studies prisons, prisoners’ rights, and the impact of prison and punishment policy on individuals, communities, and legal systems.  Jeff and Karamet discuss Travis' story and related criminal justice issues.

 Making Venture Capital More Effective (w/ Blair Garrou) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 42:26

Blair Garrou is a co-founder and Managing Director at Mercury Fund, an early stage venture capital fund with over $275 million under management. Blair focuses on investments in enterprise SaaS and cloud computing startups. In addition, Blair teaches courses on venture capital at Rice University and was named to the Houston Business Journal’s inaugural “40 under 40.”

 On Cybersecurity (w/ Jack Huffard) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:49

Jack Huffard is the President and CEO of Tenable Network Security, a $2 billion cyber security corporation. Jack co-founded Tenable in 2002. Before Tenable, Jack was the Director of Corporate Development for Enterasys Networks. In 2013, he received the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for defense and security.

 Aggregating the News (w/ Mark Coddington) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:26

Mark Coddington is an assistant professor of journalism and mass communication at Washington and Lee University. He is the author of the recent book, Aggregating the News. Mark earned his Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a contributor to the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. His research has been published in a wide range of journalism outlets.

 On Speaking Up (w/Megan Reitz) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 42:14

Megan Reitz is listed on the Thinkers50 Radar of global management thinkers and on the 2018 HR Most Influential list of Thinkers. Reitz is the author of the new book, Speak Up, as well as Dialogue in Organizations and Mind Time and a professor of leadership and dialogue, Hult Ashridge Executive Education. She is an international speaker, coach and consultant and her work focuses on the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness.

 When businesses violate the public’s trust (w/ Sandra Sucher) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:53

Sandra Sucher is a Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. Sucher is the author of over 100 business cases, technical notes, video interviews, and teaching notes cases on leadership and the ethical dilemmas of businesses and their managers, and two books: The Moral Leader: Challenges, Insights and Tools, and Teaching The Moral Leader: A Literature-based Leadership Course, A Guide For Instructors.

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