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In this episode of Business Talk, Dr. Eva Boxenbaum, Professor of Organization and Management Theory at Copenhagen Business School, explores how academic knowledge is translated and transformed as it moves from universities into business and practice. She discusses the impact of professional identity, the risks of losing context and attribution, the power dynamics between academia and industry, and the importance of clear concepts, visual models, and structured dialogue. The conversation highlights how academics and practitioners can develop shared capabilities to ensure that research is applied faithfully and creates meaningful real-world impact.

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In this Business Talk episode, Dr. T.V. Paul, Distinguished James McGill Professor at McGill University, explores why nuclear weapons have not been used since 1945. Drawing on his book, ‘The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons’, he distinguishes between a “taboo” (an unthinkable act) and a “tradition” (a practised restraint shaped by reputation costs and self-deterrence).

Through historical crises - from Hiroshima and the Korean War to Cuba, Vietnam, and the Gulf Wars- Dr. Paul shows how leaders repeatedly considered, yet rejected, nuclear use. He highlights country-specific doctrines (US, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea) and explains how norms, identity, and reputational concerns often matter more than pure deterrence logic. Today, he warns the tradition is under strain due to leadership deficits, technological change (AI, drones, hypersonics), and the fading of mass anti-nuclear movements. His recommendations include middle-power leadership, preventing the mixing of nuclear and conventional war plans, public education on nuclear history, step-by-step confidence-building, and reviving arms-control frameworks.

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Honoured to host Dr. Charles F. Manski, renowned econometrician and Board of Trustees Professor at Northwestern University, on Business Talk! We dive into his book, “Patient Care Under Uncertainty,” exploring how honest conversations about what we know (and don’t know) can lead to better decision-making in medicine. Dr. Manski reveals why more data can’t always solve uncertainty, why “credible bounds” matter more than false precision, and how minimax regret helps clinicians navigate tough choices. Tune in for a fresh perspective on evidence, clinical judgment, and the future of medical research.

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In this episode of Business Talk, Deepak Bhatt speaks with Dr. Scott Schieman, Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, about his book, “I Want More: Why Your Job Still Matters.”

Drawing on research involving more than 40,000 workers, Dr. Schieman introduces the MORE framework, Mooring, Opening, Relating, and Exceeding, to explain how work provides far more than financial income. The conversation explores work’s role in shaping identity, developing skills, building relationships, and providing recognition, while also examining the challenges of remote work, higher-status stress, job insecurity, and the growing influence of AI. Ultimately, Dr. Schieman argues that meaningful work does not require a grand calling; even “a little more” purpose, connection, confidence, or recognition can make a lasting difference.

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In her book Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age, Dr. Ling Tang examines how female entrepreneurs navigate China's digital economy. Rather than viewing Chinese feminism solely through state socialist or civil society lenses, Tang introduces a third perspective focusing on women's economic agency within the market.

While China's booming digital landscape allows women to achieve significant financial success and leverage economic growth to gain social tolerance, such as for non-normative identities, this market-driven empowerment comes at a high cost. Entrepreneurs face structural frictions, including state regulation of personal desires, navigating toxic, male-dominated guanxi business cultures, and absorbing heavy platform pressures. Consequently, women engage in auto-exploitation, framing extreme overwork as passion and national duty. Ultimately, Tang illustrates that while market practices offer a viable route for feminist ideas when civil society is constrained, true empowerment requires moving away from growth-obsessed burnout.

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In his book, Private Power and Democracy's Decline: How to Make Capitalism Support Democracy, Stanford Economics Professor Emeritus Mordecai Kurz examines how tech monopolies fuel income inequality and social polarization. Expanding on the ideas in The Market Power of Technology (2023), Dr. Kurz presents concrete policy solutions, including antitrust reform and taxing monopoly profits, to protect democratic institutions and realign capitalism with the public good.

Professor Kurz contends that free-market capitalism and democracy are fundamentally incompatible because concentrated tech monopolies convert economic power into political inequality. Unlike the first Gilded Age, modern digital automation systematically replaces rather than expands blue-collar labor. To counter democratic decline driven by policy deregulation, tech displacement, and social neglect, Dr. Kurz proposes aligning capitalism with public interest. His key solutions include taxing replacement technologies while subsidizing worker-assisting AI, enshrining a legally guaranteed worker livelihood program, and reforming unions into supportive social organizations. Ultimately, he urges workers to organize, upskill, and reject demagoguery to build a balanced economic future.

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Dr. Sibel Kusimba, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida, joins us to explore her fascinating book, Reimagining Money: Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution. a 2023 SEA Book Prize finalist from the Society for Economic Anthropology.

In an episode of Business Talk, Dr. Sibel Kusimba discusses her book, Reimagining Money: Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution. Tracing the rise of mobile money services like M-Pesa, Prof. Kusimba explains that digital currency in Kenya serves as a medium for building social relationships and reinforcing cultural values of "wealth in people" rather than simply accumulating assets. Practices such as airtime gifts (sambaza), crowdfunding platforms (MChanga), and rural remittances allow users to express care, maintain community obligations, and establish status across distances. However, she notes that digital finance also introduces friction, privacy concerns, and predatory inclusion through high-interest loans and automated debt recovery. Rejecting the notion of technological leapfrogging, Dr. Kusimba demonstrates how modern digital tools build directly upon historical monetary traditions. Ultimately, she advocates for fintech design that respects complex social ecologies, addresses networked debt, and incorporates relational value alongside utility.

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Dr. Allan Lichtman, Distinguished Professor of History at American University, offers a fresh perspective on the evolution of conservative thought in the United States in his compelling book, Conservative at the Core: A New History of American Conservatism, sharing his rich ideas, experiences, and insights.

Applying philosopher Dr. Imre Lakatos’s framework, Prof. Lichtman argues that conservative rhetoric, like "free enterprise" and "states' rights", is merely a disposable "outer belt" hiding a true "core": protecting private enterprise through tariffs and crony capitalism, alongside selective culture-war politics. Lichtman places modern conservatism's roots in post-WWI anti-pluralist reactions rather than the mid-20th century. He identifies Donald Trump as the culmination of this legacy rather than an aberration. The discussion also highlights the historic realignment of Southern conservative Democrats to the GOP, the pattern of conservative presidents driving up federal deficits, and the impact of unprecedented disinformation on election forecasting. Ultimately, Lichtman views conservatism's central crisis as a reliance on chronic dishonesty.

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Professor Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona, takes us to one of modern science’s most thrilling frontiers: the search for alien worlds. In Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity, he poses a question that could define our species, where else might life exist, and what does it mean for us?

Dr. Impey highlighted that over 6,000 exoplanets have been discovered, partly thanks to the cost-effective Kepler satellite, suggesting billions of habitable worlds exist in the Milky Way. He noted that Earth may not be the optimal planet for life and emphasized how extremophiles demonstrate life's ability to thrive in harsh environments. Additionally, Impey addressed the interdisciplinary nature of astrobiology, the limitations of private space ventures, and the massive technological, biological, and psychological hurdles of interstellar colonization. Stressing that there is no reachable "Planet B," he argued that the search for exoplanets reinforces our duty to protect Earth, while remaining confident that a biological universe awaits discovery.

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Dr. Xu Jiang, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, focuses his research on banking regulation, optimal disclosure policies, accounting standards, and strategic communication. Inspired by real-world observations of companies delaying their scheduled earnings calls to coincide with Federal Reserve meetings, Dr. Jiang co-authored an original study investigating why firms and analysts cluster earnings announcements and forecasts around FOMC dates. His research reveals a strategic cost-sharing dynamic where both parties delay announcements to leverage macro-level monetary policy insights, resulting in significantly higher analyst forecast accuracy, lower bid-ask spreads, and improved firm investment efficiency, effects that are particularly pronounced for high-beta, large firms and during periods of high economic policy uncertainty. Comparing various macroeconomic events, the research highlights that FOMC meetings and Non-Farm Payroll reports exert a much stronger influence on forecast accuracy than FOMC minutes. While these self-interested timing choices maximize overall information efficiency, Dr. Jiang notes potential regulatory implications, suggesting standard-setters consider requiring firms to explain schedule deviations to protect retail investors from post-FOMC information overload.

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