Dr. Jérôme Barthélemy, Professor of Strategy and Management at ESSEC Business School, challenges widely held assumptions about how strategy and innovation really work, drawing on research, vivid cases, and contrarian examples from his book Myths of Strategy. In this conversation, he shows that breakthrough ideas often come from recombining existing elements rather than chasing the latest technology, that formal roles like Chief Strategy Officer or neat management formulas rarely guarantee results, and that strategy is ultimately an educated guess made under uncertainty.

Through stories such as Nespresso’s risky pivot, the dangers of survivorship bias, and evidence on investing through recessions, he urges leaders to think critically, beware seductive management fads, and rely on evidence and thoughtful recombination instead of simplistic recipes for success.

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Dr. Abigail R. Hall, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Tampa, unpacks the themes of her book How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite, a satirical yet fully factual examination of the modern U.S. national security state and military industrial complex. Drawing on case studies from the Iraq War to contemporary sports culture, she shows how carefully crafted narratives, media relationships, and even paid patriotic displays in stadiums help sustain public support for foreign interventions while concealing their true human and financial costs. Hall traces how the shift from taxation and war bonds to debt financing has hidden the price of conflict from citizens, and how tools first developed for overseas operations, surveillance technologies, drones, and militarized policing, inevitably migrate home.

Ultimately, she argues that while entrenched interests in the “iron triangle” of military, industry, and Congress are powerful, an engaged and informed public still holds meaningful leverage, and that safeguarding a free society requires citizens to confront uncomfortable truths rather than passively accept official narratives.

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Professor Douglas Comer, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, delves into the fascinating insights from his acclaimed work, The Cloud Computing Book: The Future of Computing Explained.

This episode features an in-depth conversation between host Deepak Bhatt and Professor Douglas Comer, a distinguished computer scientist from Purdue University and a pioneering figure in internet history. Drawing on insights from his acclaimed work on cloud computing, Professor Comer explains how AI’s hunger for massive parallel processing makes cloud platforms the natural home for modern workloads, and why understanding enduring concepts matters far more than chasing fast-changing vendor technologies. He traces the evolution from physical servers to virtual machines and today’s container-driven, cloud-native world; unpacks how data center networking shifted from fat-tree to leaf-spine architectures to handle intense east–west traffic; and demystifies storage models like SAN, NAS, and object storage with vivid, real-world examples.

Along the way, he explores orchestration with Kubernetes, microservices and serverless paradigms, and the growing security challenge of software supply chain vulnerabilities, offering clear takeaways for students, practitioners, and leaders navigating the future of cloud computing.

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Dr. Paul Seabright, Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics, joined the Business Talk podcast to discuss his book The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People and his research on religious movements as economic platforms that compete for members and resources while providing vital services such as education, marriage facilitation, financial support, and insurance against life shocks. He reflected on how religions operate on both the extensive margin (which faith people join) and the intensive margin (how much time and commitment they devote), drawing on fieldwork from India, China, Ghana, Haiti, and beyond to show the remarkable diversity of religious practice and the ways communities offer material, emotional, and preventive support to their members.

At the same time, he highlighted troubling patterns of abuse enabled by cultures of secrecy and silence, and argued for treating religions as legitimate but accountable organisations that, like businesses, should be subject to basic transparency and reporting standards to protect trust while respecting religious freedom.

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Dr. Jonathan S. Feinstein, John G. Searle Professor of Economics and Management at the Yale School of Management, joined host Deepak on the Business Talk podcast to explore ideas from his book Creativity in Large-Scale Contexts: Guiding Creative Engagement and Exploration, published by Stanford University Press. Drawing on his interdisciplinary background in economics, knowledge representation, and mathematical modeling, Dr. Feinstein explained how creativity unfolds within vast networks of context and shared practical tools, such as guiding conceptions and guiding principles, for individuals and organizations navigating complex creative journeys.

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Dr. Christopher Koliba, the Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, Policy, and Governance at the University of Kansas, explains how contemporary public administration increasingly operates through governance networks rather than isolated agencies, with multiple public, private, and nonprofit actors exchanging resources, information, and political power across interconnected systems. Drawing on his book “Governance Networks in Public Administration and Public Policy,” he outlines core building blocks of these networks, actors, ties, functions, and structures, and shows how policy tools such as regulations, contracts, grants, and subsidies both shape and are shaped by these configurations.

Through examples including private prisons, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and crop insurance programs, he illustrates how networks can generate both public value and unintended consequences, depending on accountability flows, information sharing, and the health of civil society organizations that act as watchdogs, conveners, and implementers.

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In this episode of the Business Talk podcast, host Deepak Bhatt speaks with Professor Joseph Zeira of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem about his book The Israeli Economy: A Story of Success and Costs. Drawing on Israel’s unique history, Professor Zeira explains how rapid growth from 1922 to 1972 was driven by external financing through immigrant capital, German reparations, and large-scale public investment in education and technology. He highlights the 1980 peace agreement with Egypt as a pivotal “natural experiment” that enabled economic stabilization, sharply reduced public spending, and showed that long-run growth can remain robust even as the state shrinks.

The conversation also explores his “missing capital” research, the economic costs of wide and narrow conflicts, and why Israel’s neoliberal turn failed to boost growth but significantly increased inequality.

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Dr. Nina Bandelj, Chancellor's Professor of Sociology and Campus Equity Advisor at the University of California, Irvine, shares key insights from her latest book Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting, exploring what happens when children become investment projects and parenting transforms into exhausting labor.

In her latest book “Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting”, Dr. Nina Bandelj examines how modern parenting has evolved into an exhausting blend of emotional devotion and economic investment, where children are simultaneously treated as priceless emotional treasures and human capital projects to be optimized. Drawing on interviews with 120 parents across diverse backgrounds, she traces how two powerful cultural forces, the economic style, rooted in human capital thinking and productivity mindsets, and the emotional style, driven by therapeutic culture and identity - have together transformed child-rearing into what she calls the "emotional economy."

From soaring childcare costs and tutoring expenses to the mental load of constant scheduling and monitoring, Dr. Bandelj reveals that this culture of over-investment not only exhausts parents but may also undermine children's resilience and independence - and, crucially, does not just reproduce inequality but actively grows it. Her work is not a judgment on parents, but a call for systemic change: to reimagine children not as private investment projects, but as a shared societal responsibility deserving collective support.

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Dr. Tirthankar Roy, Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, joins us to share key insights from his acclaimed book, A Business History of India: Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism from 1700.

In this illuminating episode of Business Talk, Prof. Tirthankar Roy, takes us on a sweeping 300-year journey through India's entrepreneurial past. Drawing from his acclaimed book, A Business History of India: Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism from 1700, Prof. Roy explores how Indian capitalism flourished despite scarce capital, powered by social networks, community trust, and geographic advantage. From the cotton trade boom in Bombay and the unique managing agency system pioneered by houses like Tata and Birla, to the transformative role of weak ties in enabling Jamshedji Tata's steel revolution, the conversation uncovers the deep historical roots of India's modern enterprise.

Prof. Roy also offers a nuanced reading of the colonial era, challenges the popular "extraction" narrative, and explains how the 1990s liberalization was less a revolution and more a return to India's natural economic instincts, one built on the power of people, mobility, and global integration.

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In this insightful episode of the Business Talk Podcast, Dr. Max H. Bazerman, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School shares transformative lessons from his book, Negotiation: The Game Has Changed. Dr. Bazerman explores how sweeping shifts in the negotiation landscape from the rise of AI and Donald Trump's global trade policies to the dominance of virtual communication, are fundamentally redefining how we negotiate. He introduces the concept of "richness" in communication, highlighting how moving from in-person to digital interactions demands greater preparation, strategic pauses, and advance documentation.

Yet, amid all this change, Dr. Bazerman affirms that timeless principles BATNA, reservation price, zone of possible agreement, and value creation, remain the bedrock of effective negotiation. He also challenges two of the most common negotiation mistakes: neglecting perspective-taking and falling into the trap of fixed-pie, zero-sum thinking.

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