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Dr. Amir Grinstein, Associate Professor of Marketing at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, shares insights from his research, “Creating Social Change by Moving from i-level to g-level and s-level Interventions.” His work presents a comprehensive framework that connects individual, group, and system-wide levels of change. The study sheds light on how consumers serve as active change agents within broader social systems and introduces innovative approaches including coordination games and agent-based modeling to explore the dynamics of group-level transformation.

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Dr. Tima Bansal, Professor of Sustainability and Strategy and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability at the Ivey Business School, Western University, joins us on the Business Talk podcast to discuss her groundbreaking research, “Seeing Beyond the Here and Now: How Corporate Purpose Combats Corporate Myopia.”

Corporate purpose emerges as a powerful antidote to organizational myopia in an increasingly uncertain, interconnected world. When uncertainty rises, firms tend to narrow their attention, prioritize immediate gains, and discount future rewards, leading to short-term decisions that undermine long-term value. Dr. Tima Bansal’s research shows that a clear, authentic purpose acts as a cognitive tool that guides strategic trade-offs, helps leaders balance three-month sprints with a long-term destination, and keeps the whole organization aligned on what truly matters. Purpose-driven companies not only navigate crises more effectively but also outperform their peers financially, with studies indicating up to 400 percent better performance over a decade.

By shifting from inside-out thinking, focused on what the organization wants, to outside-in thinking, oriented toward the needs of customers, communities, and the planet, corporate purpose connects individual, organizational, and societal goals, enabling innovation, resilience, and sustainable success.

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Dr. Laurie Heller, Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, explores her groundbreaking research, “From Echoes to AI: Translating Human Sound Perception into Technology,” and discusses how insights from human listening are reshaping intelligent audio systems.

The episode explores how humans perceive, interpret, and harness sound, from echolocation to intelligent audio systems. Dr. Laurie Heller explains how people can be trained to use echoes for navigation, highlighting the acoustic cues and brain networks involved in localizing sound in space. She discusses how vision and hearing interact, how sounds link to gestures and actions, and why understanding these connections matters for interface and assistive technology design. The conversation moves into applications, including hearing aids that better represent environmental sounds, machine learning models for sound classification, and echolocation-based tools for visually impaired users.

Dr. Heller also reflects on immersive audio in VR/AR, the cognitive and emotional impacts of noise pollution, and emerging insights into misophonia, where everyday sounds trigger intense reactions. Throughout, she emphasizes aligning technology with human perception to create safer, more intuitive and humane sound environments.

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Dr. Deborah Barnbaum, Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Coordinator of the Minor in Bioethics and Health Humanities at Kent State University, shares key insights from her acclaimed book, “Data Safety Monitoring Boards: A Bioethical Perspective,” illuminating a critical yet often overlooked dimension of bioethics - the ethical challenges involved in monitoring data and safeguarding participants during clinical trials.

The episode highlights how Dr. Deborah Barnbaum, a philosopher and bioethicist at Kent State University, uses real clinical trial cases to explain the ethical role of Data Safety Monitoring Boards (DSMBs) in protecting participants while generating reliable knowledge. She describes DSMBs as underexamined yet crucial bodies, distinct from Institutional Review Boards, with bioethicists contributing specialized expertise in policy, confidentiality, and consent rather than clinical or statistical judgment. Through examples like the STRIVE IPF trial and eye-injury stem cell studies, she shows how DSMBs must balance numerical outcomes with patient narratives to judge not only survival but quality of life.

Key themes include equipoise as a precondition for ethical trials, decisions to stop studies for harm or futility, the importance of DSMB independence, and the predominance of consequentialist reasoning in their deliberations. She also flags artificial intelligence as an emerging challenge, warning against replacing human ethical judgment with algorithms.

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Dr. Emily Rosado-Solomon, Assistant Professor of Management at Babson College, discusses her groundbreaking research titled “Others Matter When Mothers Return: An Investigation of Relational Movement and Its Role in Post-Maternity Leave Reentry Transitions.”

This episode with Dr. Emily Rosado-Solomon delves into how mothers’ workplace relationships shift when they return from maternity leave, a process she terms relational movement. Some relationships deepen through greater authenticity and “infusing family into work,” while others become more distant as mothers set firmer boundaries and prioritize efficiency. Dr. Rosado-Solomon discusses identity asymmetry, where colleagues may wrongly assume returning mothers are less committed, and how even well-intentioned comments can undermine their professional identity. She explains how positive workplace connections foster self-compassion by normalizing imperfection and easing pressure to “do it all.”

The episode also offers practical “micro-moves” for managers and colleagues such as asking how to help, using sensitive language, and offering options rather than assumptions along with advice for mothers to seek supportive networks inside and outside their organizations, challenging deficit narratives about motherhood and careers.

This podcast is brought to you by Global Management Consultancy. For more information, please visit www.globalmanagementconsultancy.com.

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Dr. Robert Austin, Professor of Information Systems at Ivey Business School and affiliated faculty member at Harvard Medical School, explores critical insights from his seminal work, Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations, a foundational text that examines how performance measurement influences organizational behavior and reveals the often-overlooked risks of measurement dysfunction.

In this episode, Dr. Robert Austin, Professor of Information Systems at Ivey Business School and affiliated faculty member at Harvard Medical School, unpacks how well-intended performance metrics can quietly distort behavior and damage organizations. Drawing on classic work by Ridgway, Blau, and Kerr, he illustrates measurement dysfunction through vivid cases, from police departments gaming clearance rates to GE’s earnings manipulation and costly failure in large defense projects.

Dr. Austin explains the tension between using metrics for information versus motivation, framed through Goodhart’s Law, and shows how individual attribution and high-stakes incentives corrupt data quality. He traces the evolution of software development metrics and argues that creative and R&D-style work cannot be managed like factory output. The conversation closes with design principles for healthier measurement systems, the superiority of trust-based over metrics-obsessed management, and why, even in the digital age, more data can simply mean more sophisticated folly unless culture and cooperation are put at the center.

This podcast is brought to you by Global Management Consultancy. For more information, please visit www.globalmanagementconsultancy.com.

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Dr. Santiago Gallino, the Charles W. Evans Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, joins us to discuss his seminal research, “Are Everywhere Stores the New Face of Retail?”, examining how omnichannel retailers can strengthen customer engagement and optimize logistics by leveraging innovative sales and fulfillment locations.

Everywhere Stores turn everyday spaces homes, backyards, hotels, and other lived environments into authentic retail touchpoints where customers discover, test, and experience products in real use contexts, free from traditional sales pressure. Dr. Santiago Gallino argues that these models complement, rather than replace, existing channels and sit alongside four key omnichannel formats: traditional stores, e-commerce, BOPIS, and showrooms.

By decentralizing discovery and even inventory, retailers can deepen engagement, build trust, and gather rich behavioral insights about how products fit into customers’ lives. Ambassador-style setups, such as Otter’s backyard showrooms, and distributed inventory networks using micro-warehouses in homes illustrate both the promise and operational challenges of this disaggregated retail. Success depends on careful product selection, safeguards for authenticity and consent, strong partner execution, and maintaining brand consistency while leveraging the unique capillarity and data advantages of Everywhere Stores.

This podcast is brought to you by Global Management Consultancy. For more information, please visit www.globalmanagementconsultancy.com.

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Prof. Pablo Boczkowski and Dr. Mora Matassi discuss their book “To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media across Nations, Media, and Platforms” and illustrate how systematic comparative research can advance the understanding and impact of social media scholarship.

This podcast episode delves into how comparative thinking can transform the study of social media by moving beyond single-country, single-medium, or single-platform analyses. It highlights the book To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media across Nations, Media, and Platforms, which proposes a three-dimensional framework: cross-national, cross-media, and cross-platform comparison. Through cases such as the Chilean feminist performance “Un Violador en tu Camino,” regional mobilizations after Marielle Franco’s assassination, and the global spread of Black Lives Matter, the discussion shows how similar causes follow different trajectories depending on histories, institutions, and cultures.

The episode also stresses the importance of historical perspective, “dead platforms” like Photolog, and de-westernizing research, while expanding “language” to include emojis, hashtags, and multilingual practices, exemplified by artists like Bad Bunny. Listeners are encouraged to embrace complexity, resist universal claims, and treat comparison as a core research commitment.

This podcast is brought to you by Global Management Consultancy. For more information, please visit www.globalmanagementconsultancy.com.

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Dr. Devin Stein, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management at the Culverhouse College of Business, The University of Alabama, presented his research titled “Distributed Knowledge and the Creation of Public Value: Community-Based Organizing and Wildfire Management in Northern California.”

This episode examines how community self-organization and local knowledge reduce wildfire damage, drawing on Dr. Devin Stein’s research in Northern California. He introduces “idle local knowledge” - critical, but scattered, insights residents hold about risks, terrain, access routes, and water sources that often remain unused unless actively collected. By studying 20 years of data, he finds that self-organizing communities experience about 5% fewer annual property losses from wildfires, rising to 7–10% when they collaborate deeply with state and federal agencies. The conversation critiques one-size-fits-all “best practices,” showing that prevention must be tailored to contexts such as dense forests, high desert, or wildland–urban interfaces.

It highlights both formal organizations and informal neighbor networks, stressing flexible, trust-based collaboration rather than rigid contracts. The episode concludes that this model of activating local knowledge applies far beyond wildfire management, including floods, hurricanes, public health crises, and homelessness.

This podcast is brought to you by Global Management Consultancy. For more information, please visit www.globalmanagementconsultancy.com.

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Prof. Yoram (Jerry) Wind, Lauder Professor Emeritus and Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, shares profound insights from his acclaimed book, “Creativity in the Age of AI: Toolkits for the Modern Mind”.

This episode with Prof. Yoram (Jerry) Wind delves into how creativity can be cultivated systematically rather than seen as a rare innate gift. He explains that creativity works like a muscle and can be strengthened through deliberate practice, diverse techniques, and by challenging entrenched mental models. The discussion dispels the left-brain/right-brain myth, emphasizing interconnected neural networks and the importance of switching modes stepping away from analytical work to unlock fresh ideas.

Prof. Wind presents AI as a 24/7 “smart research assistant” that helps question assumptions, explore “what if” scenarios, and expand the range of options without replacing human judgment. He introduces the idea of a personal “creativity portfolio” and stresses experimentation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and overcoming organizational resistance as keys to innovation. A simple exercise using AI to design a detailed travel plan illustrates how quickly skeptical users can recognize AI as an essential creativity partner.

This podcast is brought to you by Global Management Consultancy. For more information, please visit www.globalmanagementconsultancy.com.

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