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Dr. Nathan Dietz, Research Professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy, Research Director at the Do Good Institute, and Co Investigator with the interdisciplinary Maryland Democracy Initiative, shares insights from his research titled “Social Connectedness and Generosity: How Associational Life and Social Connections Influence Volunteering and Giving - and Vice Versa.”

Dr. Nathan Dietz’s research on social connectedness and generosity reveals that volunteering and charitable giving are not substitutes but deeply complementary behaviors, with people who do one being far more likely to do the other. Using rich U.S. government survey data, he shows that although only about one-quarter to one-third of American adults formally volunteer and about half give at least modest amounts in a year, those who are involved through groups, congregations, workplaces, and “third spaces” build trust and social capital that, in turn, reinforce ongoing civic engagement. His work highlights the untapped potential among less typical volunteers, the powerful role of religious congregations and emerging workplace programs, and the importance of policy tools like national service initiatives and broad-based charitable incentives to expand participation, especially for young people and underexposed communities.

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Dr. Melanie Brucks, Assistant Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, shares insights from her research, “Clicks, Drags, and Whips: When Taking Digital Surveys, Your Movements Matter.” She explores how subtle variations in digital survey interfaces can shape participants’ responses, and how these small differences can accumulate to create significant effects.

Dr. Melanie Brucks’ research reveals that the simple way we move through digital surveys whether we click, drag, or “whip” our responses, can subtly but systematically change how we answer questions. By closely tracking these movements, she shows that interface choices like sliders versus radio buttons are not neutral; they shape attention, judgments, and even extreme responses, especially when people feel uncertain. These seemingly small effects can meaningfully influence real-world outcomes, from customer ratings and bids to organizational decisions that rely on survey data.

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Dr. Carles Lalueza-Fox, a distinguished Spanish biologist, shares key insights from his acclaimed book "Identity: What DNA Can Tell Us About Ourselves", exploring how genetics provides novel, fascinating, and objective perspectives on human identity, at a time when the concept of identity has never been more significant.

Dr. Carles Lalueza-Fox, a distinguished Spanish biologist and pioneer in ancient DNA research, joined the Business Talk podcast to discuss his book Identity: What DNA Can Tell Us About Ourselves and what genetics can, and cannot reveal about who we are as individuals, families, and populations. Drawing on breakthroughs such as the Neanderthal Genome Project, which showed that all modern humans outside Sub-Saharan Africa carry Neanderthal DNA, he explains how ancient genomes, low overall human genetic diversity, and constant migration and mixing debunk racial myths and highlight our deep interconnectedness as a single human family. At the same time, he warns that commercial ancestry tests and political misuse of genetic narratives can distort people’s sense of “true” identity, and argues that genetic knowledge should instead serve as a force for democratization, reminding us that beneath superficial differences, we share layered ancestries that stretch across continents and millennia.

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Dr. Maria Ballesteros-Sola, Associate Professor of Management at the MVS School of Business & Economics and Director of the Entrepreneurship & Small Business Institute, joins the conversation to share insights from her research, “The Hybrid Organization Advantage: Lessons from Social Enterprises and B Corps.” She discusses how hybrid organizations and certified B Corps effectively balance profit with purpose, revealing the strategies and structures that enable them to achieve strong financial results while creating meaningful social impact.

In this episode, Dr. Maria Ballesteros-Sola, Associate Professor of Management at the MVS School of Business & Economics and Director of the Entrepreneurship & Small Business Institute, shares her journey from a successful career in financial services and consulting across Spain, London, and Boston to becoming a leading scholar of hybrid organizations. She reflects on the deep values disconnect she experienced while maximizing shareholder returns by day and volunteering with non-profits at night, a tension that set the stage for her later research. A turning point came in 2010, when a new social business minor and a visit from Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus revealed that business could be a powerful force for social good, inspiring her 16-year commitment to studying models that blend profit and purpose. Drawing on this work, she explains how hybrid organizations use market-based solutions to create social value, why B Corp certification provides much-needed clarity to the “fuzzy middle” of social business, and how some enterprises are “born hybrid,” weaving commercial and social logics together from inception rather than treating them as competing priorities.

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Dr. Michelle Amazeen, Associate Dean of Research, Associate Professor of Mass Communication, and Director of the Communication Research Center at Boston University’s College of Communication, delves into the key ideas from her widely praised book Content Confusion: News Media, Native Advertising, and Policy in an Era of Disinformation.

Dr. Michelle unpacks how native advertising blurs the line between journalism and commercial persuasion, tracing its historical roots, legal risks, and troubling impact on democratic deliberation. Drawing on case studies such as Chevron’s media presence, she explains how advertiser partnerships can compromise news independence, and highlights policy solutions, from stronger editorial firewalls and clearer ad disclosures to robust media literacy education and diversified, non-profit funding models for independent journalism.

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Dr. Heather Cairns-Lee, Affiliate Professor of Leadership and Communication at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland, shares insights from her book Clean Language Interviewing: Principles and Applications for Researchers and Practitioners. The book introduces a powerful method for asking non-leading questions to uncover authentic experiences across research, business, education, and healthcare.

Drawing on the therapeutic innovations of David Grove and the modeling work of Penny Tompkins and James Lawley, clean language interviewing removes assumptions, paraphrasing, and leading questions so that interviewees can stay close to their own words, metaphors, and images. Through examples from leadership, coaching, conflict resolution, market research, and safety investigations, she shows how small shifts in questions can reveal structural issues instead of blaming individuals, access tacit knowledge, and create more inclusive, phenomenological conversations.

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Dr. Winnie Jiang, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour and The Goltz Fellow in Business and Society at INSEAD, discusses her research, “Breaking Free or Locking In: How Socially Disadvantaged Individuals Achieve or Reject an Aspired Identity in an Entrepreneurial Context,” which explores how individuals navigate the pursuit or rejection of an aspired identity when it conflicts with their existing sense of self.

Dr. Winnie Jiang’s research examines how socially disadvantaged women entrepreneurs in rural China navigate the emotional and identity struggles that arise when aspiring to become business owners. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 61 women, she shows that the core challenge is not time or role overload but a deep meaning-based conflict between their aspired identity as entrepreneurs and their existing identities as rural, less-educated women with strong family obligations. Using an Identity Network lens, she uncovers three distinct paths elevation, experimentation, and entrenchment that explain why some women successfully reconcile these tensions and pursue entrepreneurship, while others ultimately withdraw from their entrepreneurial aspirations. The study highlights that material resources like training and loans are necessary but insufficient, and that emotions, conversations, and identity work critically shape whether entrepreneurial opportunities become a vehicle for emancipation or reinforce existing disadvantage.

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B. Dr. Winnie Jiang shared profound insights from her research, “Breaking Free or Locking In: How Socially Disadvantaged Individuals Achieve or Reject an Aspired Identity in an Entrepreneurial Context,” during an engaging conversation on the Business Talk podcast channel. The uploaded video contains copyrighted content, so changing any graphics, music, or on-screen appearance of the author or host is not allowed.

Dr. Teresa Amabile, Edsel Bryant Ford Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School, discusses key ideas from her book Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You, which explores retirement as a major life transition, both exciting and challenging and offers insights that go beyond finances and health, focusing instead on identity, relationships, and creating a fulfilling post-career life.

Professor Teresa shared deep insights on retirement as a complex life transition that goes far beyond financial planning, highlighting the emotional, relational, and structural challenges people face when they leave full-time work. Drawing on over 40 years of research on creativity, motivation, and workplace dynamics, she explained how retirees often grapple with the loss of professional identity, daily relationships, and the familiar structure that work provides, and outlined four key developmental tasks, from deciding when and how to retire to building and consolidating a new life structure that can make this phase both exciting and fulfilling when approached with self-awareness, experimentation, and patience.

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Dr. Anup Srivastava, Canada Research Chair in Accounting – Decision-Making and Capital Markets at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, discusses his research titled “Do Digital Technology Firms Earn Excess Profits? Alternative Perspectives.” In this study, he explores whether digital technology firms particularly major tech giants truly earn excess profits, and examines whether such profitability arises from market power or from innovation.

Professor Anup Srivastava’s research on digital technology giants tackles a central policy question: do firms like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Google truly earn excess profits, and if so, why. He shows that traditional accounting metrics such as return on assets systematically mismeasure the performance of knowledge-intensive firms because they expense critical intangible investments like R&D, data, and brand-building, making the most innovative companies appear unprofitable on paper. By instead using internal rate of return and correcting for both profits and invested capital, his work documents that digital tech firms have generated supernormal returns, often between 30 and 60 percent far above their cost of capital in an era of low interest rates. The evidence points to a mix of powerful innovation (new markets, long-horizon investments, high-value patents) and significant market power (dominant platforms, high switching costs, data advantages), leaving regulators, investors, and corporate leaders with the nuanced task of distinguishing value-creating innovation from rent-extracting behavior in the digital economy.

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Dr. Peter Krapp, a Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also affiliated with the Departments of English and Music in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, explores key insights from his acclaimed book Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation.

In this episode, he reflects on how pre-internet systems, computer museums, emulation, technostalgia, game audio, and simulations in education, management, and security together illuminate what he calls our “computing legacies.” From alternative networking histories and fragile digital memory to state surveillance in virtual worlds and the institutional biases embedded in simulation games, Dr. Krapp shows how today’s digital cultures are shaped by long, often overlooked histories of technology, power, and play.

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