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- 11 Dec 2023
- Podcast
Nien-hê Hsieh on Ethical AI, Decision-Making, and Investing
Harvard Business School Professor Nien-hê Hsieh joins host Chris Linnane in The Parlor Room to discuss preserving work's human element with the proliferation of artificial intelligence and how Theranos' story imparts vital lessons about ethical decision-making and...
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- 04 Mar 2024
- Podcast
Behind the CEO Who Wants to “Keep Commerce Human”
In our increasingly virtual world, it can feel like many of our lives take place remotely. When Josh Silverman took the helm at Etsy in 2017, however, he went against this technological grain, helping to usher in a new, distinctly human-centered purpose at the...
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- 10 Apr 2024
- Podcast
How Insurance Companies are Addressing Climate Risks
This episode in our adaptation series focuses climate change’s implications on the insurance industry. Claudine Blamey, Group Director of Sustainability at Aviva, describes how climate change evokes both transition risks and physical risks for insurance companies, and...
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- 09 Oct 2023
- Podcast
Deep Purpose Season 2
Harvard Business School Professor Ranjay Gulati is back with a new season of Deep Purpose. This time he’s exploring the qualities it takes to become a courageous leader, joined by a new lineup of top global executives. He’ll sit down to discuss each guest’s personal...
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- 08 Nov 2023
- Podcast
Einride: Decarbonizing Trucking with EVs, Automony, and Digitalization
This first episode of our hard-to-abate series features Linnéa Kornehed Falck, Einride's Founder, Deputy CEO and Board Member. Einride is launching a fleet of battery electric autonomous trucks, orchestrated via route-optimization software. We discuss how its...
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- 05 Dec 2022
- Podcast
Why Brazil’s Nubank Founder David Vélez Plans to Give Away Billions
David Vélez is a founder of the world’s biggest digital bank: Nubank in Brazil. Vélez tells Professor Ranjay Gulati that he started his remarkable business career as a boy – and with an unusual investment. Vélez describes how having a deep purpose helped his team defy...
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- 26 Feb 2024
- Podcast
Season 1 Bonus Content (Part 2): Linda Hill, Mihir Desai, Forest Reinhardt, and Joshua Margolis
In our second special episode featuring season one bonus content, host Chris Linnane shares exclusive, unaired clips from his conversations with Harvard Business School faculty members. Tune in for insights from Linda Hill on leadership's imperatives and developing...
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- 28 Nov 2022
- Podcast
Dilhan Pillay Leads Temasek Holdings’ Ongoing Purpose Journey
Temasek Holdings is an investment firm owned by the Government of Singapore with a diverse, global portfolio. It owns energy companies and a major airline. It’s also committed to a green future, which generates unique challenges for the firm. CEO Dilhan Pillay says the...
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- 16 Nov 2022
- Podcast
U.S. DOE’s Jigar Shah & the State of Carbon Removal
Jigar Shah, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, shares some of the technical and finance challenges and opportunities of carbon removal solutions, and shares how transitioning his private-sector energy finance background into government...
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- 03 Jan 2024
- Podcast
The Health Risks of Natural Gas Stoves
This bonus episode of Climate Rising features an episode from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health's podcast "Better Off" that explores the intersection of decarbonization and public health. While decarbonization requires shifting away from fossil fuels, this...
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- 18 Mar 2024
- Podcast
Helena Foulkes: The Power of Asking “What Could Go Right?”
Research has repeatedly shown that we are hard-wired to worry. Whether we worry about our own survival, our family and friends, or our future, it can seem like we spend much of our lives fixated on what could go wrong. In this episode, Helena Foulkes discusses how...
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- 21 Sep 2022
- Podcast
McDonald’s’ Climate Change Efforts
In this special episode produced jointly with the Degrees podcast, Jenny McColloch, McDonald’s Chief Sustainability Officer, shares the challenges of meeting decarbonization goals at one of the world’s largest food service companies. She talks about how their climate...
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- 27 Jul 2022
- Podcast
How RMI Collaborates with Companies to Accelerate the Energy Transition
Jules Kortnenhorst, CEO of RMI, shares how RMI works with companies in the transportation, cement, and steel sectors to encourage the rapid energy transition necessary to mitigate climate change. He also talks about RMI’s global partnerships, innovative energy...
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- 04 Dec 2023
- Podcast
Entrepreneur Harsh Shah Debates the Exit Strategy: Is it Selling Out or Building Value?
Harsh Shah and his firm’s co-founders faced a once-in-a-lifetime quandary: should they sell the incredibly successful e-commerce venture they worked so hard to build to a big conglomerate? Reflecting on the circumstances surrounding their acquisition offer, Shah...
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- 14 Nov 2022
- Podcast
Arcos Dorados Founder Woods Staton: The Importance of Core Principles
Arcos Dorados (Golden Arches in English) is the world’s largest independent McDonald’s franchisee. It has restaurants across Latin America and the Caribbean. Founder Woods Staton says purpose is a work in progress for his company. But having core principles helped...
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- 30 Nov 2022
- Podcast
Tech-based Carbon Removal: Sustaera’s Direct Air Capture
Shantanu Agarwal, Co-Founder and Director of Sustaera, a startup company developing a Direct Air Capture technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere, shares his perspective on the landscape in the race to develop scalable and affordable carbon removal...
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- 27 Nov 2023
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From Rags to (Shared) Riches: How James Mwangi Democratized Financial Access Across Africa
James Mwangi made a courageous decision to leave a comfortable, big-city banking job to rescue Equity Building Society, a local financial institution on which Kenyan farmers and villagers depended. Under his leadership, the struggling firm transformed into a...
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- 10 Aug 2022
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How Ceres Supports Corporate Boards to Accelerate Climate Action
Steven Rothstein, Managing Director, Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets, shares how Ceres works with corporate boards to facilitate systemic change in private sector climate action, including why boards are a critical part of the equation. He also talks...
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- 01 Nov 2023
- Podcast
Deloitte's Dan Helfrich on consulting in the post-Covid, AI-inflected new normal
How do a culture of open debate and prioritizing work-life balance help the firm navigate change while advising others on how to do the same?
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- 29 Nov 2023
- Podcast
Why employers need to tune in to worker preferences
Sander van’t Noordende, CEO of HR services giant Randstad, on navigating the new normal of talent scarcity, an aging workforce, and AI.
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