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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Dr. Samir Chopra, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, shares key insights from his acclaimed book, “Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide”, exploring how philosophy can help us be less anxious about anxiety by understanding it as an essential part of the human experience.

Dr. Samir Chopra presents anxiety as an inescapable feature of the human condition that, rather than being merely suppressed or over-medicalized, can become a powerful source of insight into our values, histories, and commitments. Drawing on existentialist, Buddhist, and Marxist perspectives, he shows how finite time, uncertainty about the future, constant change, interdependence, and material inequalities all shape the forms our anxiety takes, while philosophy helps us confront these realities with greater honesty and agency. Through his own journey with grief, psychotherapy, and philosophical study, he argues for a shift from the pursuit of happiness to the search for meaning, suggesting that reflecting on our anxiety can deepen self-knowledge, guide life choices, and even reveal anxiety as a signature of love for those we care about. Using metaphors like the hut with a hole in the roof, he urges us to reframe anxiety not as a defect to be eliminated, but as an opening that can connect us to new perspectives, more authentic relationships, and a more meaningful engagement with life.

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Dr. Jonathan Moreno, the David and Lyn (Silfen) University Emeritus Professor and Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, shares key insights from his acclaimed book, “Absolutely Essential: Bioethics and the Rules-Based International Order.”

The document explains how Dr. Jonathan D. Moreno links the birth of modern bioethics to the Nuremberg trials, where informed consent and respect for human dignity became core principles of both medical research and the post WWII liberal democratic order. It shows how these bioethical norms rest on universal human rights and philosophical ideas of equality, and how they are now strained by a fracturing rules based system, rising nationalism, and emerging technologies such as AI. The interview highlights shifts in global science from the decline of Russian research capacity to China’s rise as a peer competitor and stresses that genuine scientific progress remains inherently multinational despite growing geopolitical tensions. COVID 19 is presented as a stress test that exposed weaknesses in global bioethics through vaccine nationalism, corporate dominance, and inequitable access, reinforcing the need to rethink ethics beyond individual autonomy toward a “pandemic era bioethics” balancing personal rights and public health. Dr. Moreno also underscores the importance of international organizations like the WHO, the growing power of corporations relative to states, and key geopolitical events that, in his view, mark the end of the old post war order issues he develops further in his book “Absolutely Essential: Bioethics and the Rules-Based International Order.”

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Dr. Laurel Austin, Associate Professor of Management Science at the Ivey Business School, Western University, explores her groundbreaking research, “Risk, Uncertainty, and Health Decisions in the Digital Age,” which investigates how behavioural and decision science shed light on the choices individuals make in healthcare - particularly in times of crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dual-process thinking plays a central role in how people navigate health decisions in an increasingly digital world. Dr. Laurel Austin explains how fast, intuitive “System 1” thinking, driven by emotion and gut reactions, often guides choices under stress, uncertainty, or crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast, slower, analytical “System 2” thinking can support more accurate risk assessment, but requires effort, attention, and numeracy that many patients find difficult to sustain.

In this context, digital self-triage tools emerged as powerful yet imperfect innovations. They help reduce system overload, limit infection risk, and can sometimes match or surpass human experts when using the same information. However, they cannot perform physical exams, struggle with nuanced follow-up, depend on internet access, and often lack full integration with existing health systems. At the same time, trust in traditional providers and media has declined, while many people, especially youth turn to social media for “medical research,” where messages are easily distorted. Dr. Austin’s work underscores the need to design digital tools that complement, rather than replace, clinicians, and to improve risk communication so that people better understand screening results, probabilities, and the real trade-offs in preventive care.

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