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In this episode of Business Talk, Dr. Per Espen Stoknes, psychologist, economist, serial entrepreneur, and Associate Professor at BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, unpacks the central argument of his book Tomorrow's Economy (MIT Press): that green growth is not only possible, but measurable, actionable, and urgently necessary. At the heart of his framework is a sharp distinction between healthy and unhealthy growth. GDP, he explains, tells us how much an economy produces, but not how. Healthy growth demands two additional productivity measures: resource productivity (generating more value with less material and energy use, targeting 6-7% annual improvement) and social productivity (ensuring that income growth reaches the bottom 40-50% of earners, not just the top 10%).

Beyond GDP, Dr. Stoknes calls for a planetary balance sheet that accounts for four forms of capital, human, natural, social, and productive, where a healthy economy is one in which all four improve net-positively year over year. He further argues that the biggest barrier to this transformation is not technological, but psychological: since double-entry accounting was introduced in 1494, we have been conditioned to measure success in short-term monetary terms alone. From a six-step corporate green growth model, spanning outreach, house cleaning, procurement, operations, product portfolio shifts, and business model innovation, to the structural protection offered by Benefit Corporation structures, Dr. Stoknes offers business leaders and policymakers a clear, science-based roadmap. And for India, he reserves particular urgency: with its vast workforce and rapid growth trajectory, he calls it "the most important country in the world right now" to demonstrate that resource-productive, inclusive economic development is not a trade-off, it is tomorrow's only viable path forward.

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On this episode of Business Talk, we are joined by Dr. Barry M. Katz, Professor of Design at California College of the Arts and adjunct professor at Stanford University; Schirin Lucie Richter, design strategist and senior partner at Future Medical Systems; and Svava María Atladóttir, Chief Transformation Officer at Landspítali University Hospital and Special Advisor at Iceland’s Ministry of Health, to explore the key ideas from their collaborative handbook, Healthcare by Design: A Handbook for Changemakers. Drawing on their experience working within complex health systems, they discuss why dedicated clinicians often struggle to make change, the mindsets needed to drive innovation safely, and how human-centered design can unlock practical, low-cost improvements in patient and provider experience. Through real-world cases, such as rethinking the everyday experience of dialysis patients, they show how design methods can complement evidence-based medicine, support the quadruple aim, and help frontline insights meaningfully reach leadership and the C-suite.

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Dr. Philippe Huneman is a French philosopher and research director at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated with Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, whose recent work examines how predictive algorithms are reshaping identity, knowledge, and democracy in the digital age. In this conversation, drawing on his book Profiling: How Predictive Algorithms Shape Identity and the Social Fabric, he explains how data-driven profiling turns everyday traces of our lives, our GPS movements, purchases, searches, and social media activity, into high-dimensional profiles that can predict and subtly shape what we see, do, and even who we become. Moving beyond simple critiques of “big data,” Dr. Huneman argues that profiling systems do not merely observe reality; they help produce it, constructing new forms of community, altering our memories and experiences through algorithmic curation, and raising urgent philosophical and political questions about autonomy, corporate power, and the conditions for a truly democratic internet.

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In this episode of Business Talk, we sit down with Dr. R. Edward Freeman of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, a pioneer of stakeholder theory, to delve into his award-winning book Defeating Dengue: A Multistakeholder Approach to Problem Solving, co-authored with Andrew Sell. Drawing on a remarkable public health project in Indonesia, Dr. Freeman unpacks how a breakthrough Wolbachia mosquito technology, a courageous venture-philanthropy effort by the Tahia family, and deep community engagement came together to tackle dengue at scale. From randomized control trials and cultural-ethical challenges to 12,400 local volunteers and creative trust-building strategies like murals, hotlines, and “Wally the Wolbachia” bike visits, the conversation shows how stakeholder thinking can turn complex, seemingly intractable problems into collaborative solutions.

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Dr. Eugenio Proto, Alec Cairncross Chair of Applied Economics and Econometrics at the University of Glasgow’s Adam Smith Business School, unpacks fascinating insights from his research, showing how personality traits, cognitive ability, and emotional states subtly shape the economic and social decisions that define our lives.

Tracing his journey from traditional models to behavioral complexity, Professor Proto shows how the Big Five personality traits, emotional states, and different types of intelligence interact to influence our choices at work, in markets, and at the ballot box. Drawing on natural experiments such as the COVID-19 pandemic, cross-cultural studies, and laboratory research, he challenges simplistic stories about happiness, stress, and rational decision-making, instead revealing nuanced, often non-linear patterns in how people think, feel, and act. Along the way, the conversation highlights why moods and relationships matter for productivity, why voters can rarely be fully “rational,” and why policy, management, and education must account for both cognitive limits and emotional forces. Ultimately, the episode invites listeners to embrace the discomfort of partial models and unresolved complexity, recognizing that economic behavior is deeply human, and that honest scholarship must balance explanatory ambition with intellectual humility.

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2. In an engaging episode of the Business Talk podcast, Dr. Eugenio Proto unpacks the key insights from his research, “Personality, Intelligence, and Emotions: The Hidden Drivers of Economic and Social Behaviour”. The uploaded video contains copyrighted content, so changing any graphics, music, or on-screen appearance of the author or host is not allowed.

This Business Talk episode features Dr. Rory Naismith, Professor of Early Medieval English History in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, in a wide-ranging conversation about his book Making Money in the Early Middle Ages. Drawing on his extensive research on coinage, economy and society, Naismith explains how new discoveries, especially through metal detecting, have overturned earlier assumptions that early medieval coinage was marginal, revealing instead a surprisingly active, if still scarce, monetary economy. He unpacks one of the book’s central arguments: that the very scarcity of coins intensified their economic and symbolic power, as people consistently thought and negotiated in monetary terms even when physical coin was absent. Using clear analogies and historical examples, he guides listeners through the transition from gold to silver coinage in the 7th century, showing how changes in metal supply, value, and circulation reshaped everyday transactions and extended coined money to wider segments of society.

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In this episode of Business Talk, host Deepak Bhatt sits down with Dr. Leonard Cassuto, Professor of English at Fordham University, to explore his 2024 book Academic Writing as If Readers Matter, published by Rutgers University Press. Drawing on his training at Columbia and Harvard, authorship of more than ten books, and national leadership in graduate education reform through organizations such as the Mellon Foundation and the Modern Language Association, Dr. Cassuto reflects on why so much academic writing fails its readers and how it can be transformed. He presents writing as a human act of connection rather than mere information transfer, urging scholars to recognize their ethical responsibility to communicate clearly, honor their readers’ time and attention, and rebuild trust between universities and the wider society.

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Prof. Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Chair for Corporate Sustainability at ESCP Business School in Berlin and founding Academic Director of the MSc in Sustainability Entrepreneurship and Innovation, joins us to discuss his book Sustainable Business Model Design: 50 Ways to Innovate for Ecological, Social, and Economic Value, where he and his co-authors outline 50 pattern-based strategies to design sustainable business models that integrate ecological, social, and economic value creation, highlight demand-side levers like sharing and sufficiency, and introduce powerful guiding principles such as decoupling and regeneration for next-generation business innovation.

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In a compelling conversation on Business Talk, Dr. Anthony Alexander, Associate Professor in Operations Management at the University of Sussex Business School, explored how today's "new normal" is defined not merely by disruptions, but by their accelerating frequency, from the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19 to geopolitical shocks like the Ukraine war. He challenged the popular narrative that lean supply chains are inherently fragile, arguing instead that lean's pull-based philosophy actually builds responsiveness, while true resilience means adapting to a stronger state, much like muscle rebuilding after stress, rather than simply recovering to the status quo. Drawing on frameworks like Cynefin and concepts like exaptation, Dr. Alexander emphasized that organizations must sharpen their awareness of which decision context they are in and integrate technology meaningfully into operations, not just install it, if they are to thrive amid relentless turbulence.

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In this episode of Business Talk, we sit down with Professor Carlton F. W. Larson, the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor in Law at the University of California, Davis, whose scholarship in American constitutional law, Anglo-American legal history, and the law of treason has made him one of the country’s foremost authorities on treason and the American founding. Drawing on his distinguished academic career, including landmark books such as On Treason: A Citizen’s Guide to the Law and The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution, and widely cited research that has shaped both courtroom arguments and public debate, Professor Larson takes us inside his groundbreaking work, One Nation Under Law: The Meaning of the Declaration of Independence.

He shows how the Declaration did not create thirteen separate nations but announced the birth of a single American people, operating under an unwritten constitutional framework from the very first day of independence. Along the way, he challenges familiar myths about Thomas Jefferson’s authorship, the legal status of the Declaration, and the parchment on display in the National Archives, revealing instead a collective act of nation-making that continues to define American law, identity, and the ever-evolving balance between federal and state power.

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