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The Business

The Business is a Harvard Business School podcast. Twice a month, host Brian Kenny will bring you a new take on the business world. Through unexpected stories, and conversations with business leaders,... Read more

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Happy Money, The Science Of Smarter Spending

Happy Money, The Science Of Smarter Spending

This week Brian talks to Michael I. Norton, co-author of the book Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, about wh... Read more

12 Feb 2015

14mins

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Collective Genius

Collective Genius

If you want to know what “collective genius” can look like, watch a Pixar film. Pixar Animation Studios produce the firs... Read more

12 Feb 2015

11mins

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Investing for Real and Permanent Good

Investing for Real and Permanent Good

Carnegie Corporation co-Chief Investment Officers Kim Lew (MBA 1992) and Meredith Jenkins (MBA 1999) talk about investme... Read more

12 Feb 2015

12mins

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Success Spreads like Wildfire

Success Spreads like Wildfire

Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) never expected to start a company. She talks to Brian about her journey from a small New Zeal... Read more

12 Feb 2015

11mins

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Can China Lead?

Can China Lead?

A little over 100 years ago, the Chinese empire fell. 2000 years of imperial tradition ended, virtually overnight. After... Read more

12 Feb 2015

21mins

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When Girl Meets Oil

When Girl Meets Oil

Christine Bader, author of The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil talks about what corporate social ... Read more

12 Feb 2015

14mins

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The Revival of a Salesman: The Importance of Sales and Strategy to Business

The Revival of a Salesman: The Importance of Sales and Strategy to Business

Professor Frank Cespedes sits down to talk to Brian Kenny about his new book “Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, ... Read more

12 Feb 2015

18mins

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The Men Behind the Mayors: How Business Can Impact Government

The Men Behind the Mayors: How Business Can Impact Government

HBS Alumni Dan Koh (MBA 2011) and Senior Lecturer Mitch Weiss (MBA 2004) both served as Chief of Staff to the Mayors of ... Read more

12 Feb 2015

15mins

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Authentic Leadership and the Defense of Marriage Act

Authentic Leadership and the Defense of Marriage Act

HBS Professor of Management Practice Bill George discusses the US Supreme Court decision to repeal the Defense of Marria... Read more

12 Feb 2015

9mins

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Currency: Gautam Mukunda on Syria and Presidential Leadership in Times of Crisis

Currency: Gautam Mukunda on Syria and Presidential Leadership in Times of Crisis

As the world waits for an end to the crisis in Syria, President Obama is facing arguably the most challenging foreign po... Read more

12 Feb 2015

7mins

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The Serial Entrepreneur: From E-Readers to Nuclear Fission

The Serial Entrepreneur: From E-Readers to Nuclear Fission

: Russ Wilcox (MBA 1995) has helped revolutionize the publishing and nuclear energy industry as the co-founder of E Ink ... Read more

11 Feb 2015

20mins

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Not Your Basic Business Books

Not Your Basic Business Books

What books would guests on The Business give as holiday gifts? Listen for what Mitch Weiss, Dan Koh, Nancy Koehn, Max Ba... Read more

12 Feb 2015

8mins

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Inside Bloomberg, Inc. with Chairman Peter Grauer

Inside Bloomberg, Inc. with Chairman Peter Grauer

When former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg left Bloomberg, Inc. to take office, he handed the reins to Peter Grauer. G... Read more

12 Feb 2015

15mins

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Privacy and Productivity

Privacy and Productivity

Harvard Business School Professor Ethan Bernstein talks about how, by planting researchers on factory lines in China, he... Read more

12 Feb 2015

11mins

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The Fourth Revolution: the Global Race to Reinvent the State

The Fourth Revolution: the Global Race to Reinvent the State

Adrian Wooldridge, management editor and Schumpeter columnist at The Economist magazine, on his new book, The Fourth Rev... Read more

12 Feb 2015

8mins

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