Dr. Urs Mueller, Associate Professor of Practice in the Strategy & Entrepreneurship Knowledge Group at SDA Bocconi School of Management, offers a powerful, practice-tested roadmap for educators and writers who want to design and deliver outstanding case-based learning experiences, drawing from his textbook and workbooks, “The Ultimate Case Guide: How to Successfully Teach and Write Case Studies”.

Dr. Urs Peter Mueller views case teaching as a powerful, participant-centered way to prepare future managers for real-world decision-making by shifting the educator’s role from expert on stage to facilitator at “eye level” with students. He recommends designing sessions as 10–15 minute “building blocks” that mix mini-lectures, full-class and small-group discussions, role plays, and digital tools, so learners continuously discover, reflect, and connect insights to prior knowledge. Effective case teaching, in his view, balances clear learning objectives with flexible discussion flow, respects cultural and language differences, relies on carefully crafted, evidence-based questions, and uses strategic board planning instead of “random graffiti” to structure conversation and acknowledge students who “jump ahead” in their thinking.

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Dr. Michael Gillespie, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida, shares key insights from his acclaimed book “Distancing: How Great Leaders Reframe to Make Better Decisions.”

Psychological distancing is a practical method that helps leaders step outside their immediate emotions, habits, and biases so they can see decisions more clearly. Drawing on his work at the University of South Florida and his book “Distancing: How Great Leaders Reframe to Make Better Decisions,” Dr. Michael Gillespie explains that leaders’ biggest obstacle to sound judgment is often their own attachment to past choices and identities.

He outlines three core forms of distancing: self-distancing (seeing your situation as a trusted outsider), spatial distancing (changing your physical or mental vantage point), and temporal distancing (evaluating choices from your future self’s perspective). Simple practices such as journaling in the third person or asking “What would my replacement do?” can improve clarity, reduce anxiety, and counter escalation of commitment. Gillespie encourages leaders and organizations to normalize “timeouts” and build processes that separate decision-making from evaluation to foster more objective, long-term thinking.

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Dr. Jules van Binsbergen, Lauder Professor and Anthony L. Davis Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, shares key insights from his research, “The Impact of Impact Investing.”

The guest argue that ESG-focused impact investing, especially through divestment, has very limited ability to change firms’ real economic behavior or materially raise the cost of capital for “dirty” companies, because other investors quickly replace the capital that socially conscious investors withdraw. The research discussed shows that the price and cost-of-capital effects of divestment are extremely small under current market conditions and would only become meaningful if a very large majority of global wealth adopted the same exclusions, which is highly unrealistic. Instead, the conversation emphasizes that real impact is more likely to come from active shareholder engagement, clearer and more coherent ESG priorities, support for technological innovations that make harmful activities uneconomic, and in some cases regulation and democratic processes that address problems markets alone cannot solve.

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Dr. Martha Olney, Teaching Professor Emerita in the Economics Department at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses key insights from her acclaimed book “Inflation”, an engaging and accessible exploration of the forces behind rising prices and the policies that can help bring the cost of living under control.

Business Talk with Dr. Martha L. Olney explores what inflation is, why it surged in the post-COVID world, and how policymakers can respond, in a way that is accessible to non-economists. Drawing on Dr. Olney’s distinguished career as an award-winning teacher, economic historian, and author of the MIT Press book “Inflation,” the conversation unpacks how inflation is measured through CPI and PCE, clears up common misconceptions, and situates recent price rises in a 40 year historical context. The note explains how demand shifts, supply disruptions, and changing expectations interacted to drive inflation; discusses the evolving Phillips curve trade-off between unemployment and inflation; and examines the limits and challenges of interest-rate policy, the vital importance of central bank independence, the reality of “hidden” inflation such as shrinkflation, and the difficult trade-offs facing policymakers and the public.

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Dr. Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, shares key insights from his research, “On the Need for Digital Regulators.”

Dr. Coglianese argues that the digital era demands a dual approach to governance: we need both regulators of digital technologies and regulators armed with digital tools. Rather than creating a single, centralized "AI czar" - which he views as impractical given the vast diversity of AI applications across sectors like healthcare, finance, and transportation he advocates for empowering existing agencies to upgrade their technological capabilities. This means domain-specific regulators must address new digital manifestations of traditional market failures, such as algorithmic collusion and opaque decision-making, while simultaneously leveraging AI to enhance their own efficiency in processing public comments and engaging with citizens. Ultimately, he posits that effective digital regulation requires a distributed network of agile, tech-savvy agencies that can balance innovation with rigorous, risk-based oversight.

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Dr. Michael Brimm, Emeritus Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, shares key insights from his research, “From the Kitchen to the Boardroom: Leadership and Innovation Lessons from French Haute Cuisine.”

The podcast argues that three-star Michelin chefs exemplify an “artist-leader” model that offers powerful lessons for corporate leadership by prioritizing craft, quality, and purpose over short-term profit. These chefs build real-time quality feedback systems, insist on uncompromising standards, and deliberately disrupt their own success by removing popular dishes to force continuous innovation. Their close partnerships with suppliers and their deep commitment to mentoring apprentices create rich ecosystems of innovation and talent development that many organizations struggle to replicate. At the same time, they rely on trusted counterpoints such as spouses or dining-room managers to balance creative vision with business realities and customer expectations.

Extending beyond the kitchen, the text links this model to cases like Merck’s river blindness initiative to show how leaders who combine personal mastery, disciplined systems, and purpose beyond profit can transform organizational culture and unlock higher levels of commitment and performance.

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Dr. Baruch Fischhoff, Howard Heinz University Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and the Institute for Strategy & Technology at Carnegie Mellon University, joins us to share key insights from his influential book, “Decisions: Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard Choices.”

In this conversation, Dr. Baruch Fischhoff unpacks why hard decisions feel so overwhelming, highlighting the roles of uncertainty, complexity, and the limits of our own expertise. Drawing on decades of research, he explains how biases like hindsight and outcome bias distort how we remember and evaluate our choices, why understanding people’s mental models is essential for good risk communication, and what his work reveals about adolescent decision-making competence. He also shares practical guidance for supporting better decisions in high-stakes settings from public agencies to everyday life while emphasizing ethical, person-centered approaches to decision support.

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Dr. Charlie Kurth, Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University, shares insights from his widely acclaimed book, “The Anxious Mind: An Investigation into the Varieties and Virtues of Anxiety”, published by The MIT Press.

Anxiety emerges in this document as a nuanced, even constructive, emotion rather than a defect to be eradicated. It is described as a biocognitive state that combines hardwired biological responses with learned, culturally shaped interpretations, enabling people to respond to both immediate dangers and complex modern uncertainties. Through examples ranging from everyday social situations to moral dilemmas and high-stakes leadership decisions, the text shows how anxiety can prompt reflection, sharpen risk assessment, and guide more responsible action when it is recognized, understood, and skillfully managed.

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Dr. Hemant Kakkar, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Indian School of Business (ISB), shares key insights from his research, “To Give a Fish or to Teach How to Fish: Examining Leaders’ Autonomy and Dependency Helping Behaviors,” highlighting how leaders navigate the balance between enabling independence and offering direct support.

The main points are:

• The research distinguishes between dependency help (solving problems for employees) and autonomy help (guiding employees to solve problems themselves), showing that autonomy help builds long-term capability.

• Dominance-oriented leaders, often with a zero-sum mindset, tend to give dependency help to maintain control, whereas prestige-oriented leaders, with a non-zero-sum mindset, emphasize autonomy help and employee development.

• Status threats amplify dominant leaders’ zero-sum thinking and dependency help, while prestige leaders remain consistent in offering autonomy help.

• Autonomy help works best for learning- and development-focused tasks in psychologically safe cultures, whereas dependency help is better suited to urgent, routine, or crisis situations.

• Organizations should evaluate helping by effectiveness, reward collaboration and experimentation, and support leaders in shifting toward autonomy-oriented help, which, though slower initially, creates greater long-term organizational value.

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Dr. Christian Terwiesch, the Andrew M. Heller Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Co-Director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, and faculty member at the Perelman School of Medicine, shares insights from his widely acclaimed book, Connected Strategy: Building Continuous Customer Relationships for Competitive Advantage.

Connected Strategy explores how organizations can move from one-off customer transactions to continuous, technology-enabled relationships that create value for both customers and firms. In this episode, Dr Christian Terwiesch unpacks the four connected customer experiences respond to desire, curated offering, coach behavior, and automatic execution and explains how each reshapes the way firms anticipate, guide, and even act on customer needs. He also discusses the strategic, organizational, and data challenges leaders must address to design effective connected strategies, from breaking down silos and building trust to rethinking revenue models and learning loops that sustain long-term competitive advantage.

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