Boston Globe Bizcast business podcasts

Howard Anderson A podcast with Howard Anderson, who teaches several courses at MIT's Sloan School of Management on "Managing in Adversity" and "New Enterprises." In 1970, he started one of the first technology analyst firms, the Yankee Group, and later helped launch Battery Ventures, the venture capital firm that backed Akamai Technologies and Nextel, among others. In this podcast, he talks about today's important new directions in technology, why big companies can't innovate, and why there may be too many venture capitalists.  Download the podcast, more on Anderson

Bob Metcalfe Scott Kirsner chats with Bob Metcalfe, who is a venture capitalist at Polaris Venture Partners who believes that new technologies don't succeed simply because they're cool; they succeed because they're sold doggedly. While at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Metcalfe helped link the world's computers together by inventing the Ethernet networking protocol.  Download the podcast, more on Metcalfe

Kenan Sahin Kenan Sahin is the chief executive of TIAX, a Cambridge R&D firm consisting of more than 200 engineers and scientists. TIAX was born out of the ashes of Arthur D. Little's Technology and Innovation business. In this podcast, Sahin talks about the challenges of managing and motivating people in innovative organizations.  Download the podcast, more on Sahin

Dan Bricklin An interview with Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of the first electronic spreadsheet program, VisiCalc, and developed software to make Web publishing easier, and dove headfirst into blogging (www.bricklin.com/log). In this podcast, he talks about where good ideas come from, the importance of testing new products on "virgins," and what made Bill Gates so successful.  Download the podcast, more on Dan Bricklin

Jeremy Allaire Kirsner interviews Jeremy Allaire, who created some of the first industrial-strength tools for building and managing Web sites at Allaire Corporation. He founded the company in 1995 with his brother, J.J., helped take it public, and eventually sold it to Macromedia.  Download the podcast, more on Jeremy Allaire

Paul Maeder Scott Kirsner chats with Paul Maeder, co-founder of Highland Capital Partners, a venture capital firm currently investing out of an $800 million fund. Hear the podcast inteview as he discusses venture capital investment, start ups and how he picks the winners.  Download the podcast, more on Paul Maeder

Clayton Christensen Why do good companies fail? Harvard business school professor and author Clayton Christensen talks to Scott Kirsner about why some companies lose their edge. Christensen also discusses the merger mania trend.  Download the podcast, more on Christensen

Ray Ozzie Groove networks founder and Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie talks to Scott Kirsner about the high-tech, computer world. Find out how Ozzie got into the business and made his mark in the industry.  Download the podcast, more on Ozzie

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Scott Kirsner

Hear Kirsner's in-depth interviews of successful, New England entrepreneurs.