Columbia Bizcast

Columbia Bizcast episodes:

• 04.12.2024

  LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman on the Future of AI

  The accomplished entrepreneur, executive and investor joined Columbia Business School Dean Costis Maglaras to share lessons from building many of today’s leading consumer businesses and to discuss the future of AI. The event was part of the school’s new Distinguished...

  
• 02.27.2024

  Is the Economy Returning to Equilibrium?

  At a recent live event hosted by the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at Columbia Business School, Professors Abby Joseph Cohen and Pierre Yared discussed signs that the global economy and financial markets are moving toward a more...

  
• 02.09.2024

  How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

  In this episode of Columbia Bizcast, listen to a recording of a recent CBS event featuring Chris Wiggins, professor of applied mathematics and systems biology at Columbia University. He speaks about his new book, How Data Happened, co-authored with...

  
• 01.26.2024

  Exploring Democracy in the Age of AI

  In this episode of Bizcast we speak with Columbia Business School Professor Bruce Kogut, who shares insights and reflections on the impact of social and traditional media, government regulation,...

  
• 01.12.2024

  Climate Change and the New American Economy

  In this episode of Columbia Bizcast, listen to a recording of a recent CBS event featuring Brian Deese, MIT innovation fellow and former director of the National Economic Action Council at the White House. Deese discusses climate action and economic...

  
• 12.19.2023

  NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Shares AI Insights, Leadership Lessons

  In this episode of Columbia Bizcast, Jensen Huang, President and CEO of NVIDIA, joins Dean Costis Maglaras to discuss the future of the AI industry and...

  
• 08.10.2023

  Understanding and Unleashing the Power of Blockchain

  In this episode of Bizcast, Ciamac Moallemi, the William von Mueffling Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, takes us through the basics of the new technology, shares the opportunities and disadvantages it offers, and discusses how CBS is preparing...

  
• 01.27.2023

  Fostering Entrepreneurship and Innovation at CBS

  Director of the Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School Lara Hejtmanek ’99 discusses how the School supports students and alumni in their entrepreneurial journeys: from startup idea to launch and beyond.

  
• 12.14.2022

  How Can Leaders Use Data to Make Better Decisions?

  Listen to a fascinating discussion between Columbia Business School Professors Oded Netzer, Christopher Frank and Paul Magnone as they delve into the ideas and practical applications detailed in their new book Decisions Over Decimals.

  
• 11.18.2022

  Investing in the Era of Climate Change: A conversation with Professor Bruce Usher

  Columbia Business School’s Bruce Usher discusses his new book, which outlines the risks and opportunities for investors from climate change, and how current students and alumni are addressing major environmental challenges.

  
• 04.08.2022

  Welcome to Manhattanville – A conversation with Dean Costis Maglaras

  Welcome to the first episode of a special season of Columbia Bizcast dedicated to Columbia Business School’s new home in Manhattanville! In this episode, we’ll take a private tour of the Manhattanville campus with Dean Costis Maglaras. Dean Maglaras shares...

  
• 04.30.2021

  Mission, Purpose, and Moon-Shooting with Vasiliki Petrou, Group CEO of Unilever Prestige

  Vasiliki Petrou founded and now leads the Unilever Prestige division; this last year has offered that division invaluable knowledge and expertise. In this week’s episode, she reviews some of what she’s learned about her already-strong commitment to running a mission-driven...

  
• 04.02.2021

  Impact Investing and the Future of Flexible Capital

  Like every other industry, the field of impact investing underwent significant change over the last year. This episode investigates some of the new possibilities that this change has opened. Maggie Loo, CBS class of ’05 and Bridges Fund Management partner,...

  
• 02.26.2021

  Turnaround: A Tale of Two Pandemic Case Studies

  What happened? What went wrong? Those are simple questions to ask when a company experiences difficulty. In Professor Kathryn Harrigan’s Turnaround Management class, students examine case studies to uncover the often complex reasons why a firm got in trouble and...

  
• 02.11.2021

  What Kind of Entrepreneur Are You?

  We start our new season of Bizcast with a conversation about the challenges of entrepreneurship. Class of 2021 members Pritika Gupta, Gareth Pembroke, and Samuel Hong are co-presidents of the Columbia Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO), a community of students who offer...

  
• 10.29.2020

  Inspiring and Exhausting: Reporting on Political Campaigns

  What is it like for a journalist to cover the final days of a political campaign, right before an election? Bizcast visits with two MBA students who have had this experience first-hand. Alexis Levinson ’21, a former reporter for Buzzfeed,...

  
• 10.08.2020

  The Intersection of Business, Politics, and Society: A Conversation with Valerie Jarrett

  On this special episode of Bizcast, we’re presenting a conversation between Bernstein Center Faculty Director Modupe Akinola and former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, who is now the senior advisor to the Obama Foundation. Ms. Jarrett shares...

  
• 09.17.2020

  The Phillips Pathway Program: Learning to Advocate for an Inclusive Workplace

  As one of the world’s leading experts on diversity in business environments, the late Professor Katherine Phillips left a remarkable legacy of scholarship and inspiration. For Mariah Celestine ’20 and Camira Powell ’20, the most meaningful way to honor Professor...

  
• 08.27.2020

  Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Goldman Sachs: Erika Irish Brown ‘98

  On June 26, Gita Johar, Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion spoke with Erika Irish Brown ‘98, the Chief Diversity Officer at Goldman Sachs, about the firm’s internal response to the global protest and reckoning on anti-Black racism in...

  
• 08.05.2020

  What Can Businesses Learn from Protestors? (Part 2 of 2)

  Bizcast is continuing our conversation with Management Professor Dan Wang about the connections between protests and business. Part one examined the skills and leadership abilities protest organizers have in common with CEOs. In this part, Wang explains the relationship that...

  
• 07.23.2020

  What Can Businesses Learn from Protestors? (Part 1 of 2)

  In light of the conversation started by the Black Lives Matter movement, we’re starting a series of special edition podcasts focusing on how pro-equity social changes are affecting industries. For the first episode, we’re going to look at the nature...

  
• 05.22.2020

  How the New Normal is Changing Brand Communications

  The COVID-19 pandemic presented the already volatile world of brands with a tough new challenge: How does a brand stay viable, but ensure that it is sensitive to the new financial and societal realities of the “new normal?” On this...

  
• 05.18.2020

  Inflection Points in the New World of Business

  With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the business world and the daily lives of millions have undergone massive disruptions in a short amount of time. The reality of this new normal is what Professor Rita McGrath would define as...

  
• 05.08.2020

  Beyond CARES: Economist Glenn Hubbard on Government Response to COVID-19

  Overall, Dean Emeritus Glenn Hubbard has been pleased with the government response to the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, noting the speed with which Congress and the administration passed the CARES Act. On this episode of Bizcast, however,...

  
• 05.01.2020

  A World of Hurt: The Impact of COVID-19 On Retail

  According to a recent Department of Commerce report, retail sales slumped by 8.7 percent in March, as states issued stay-at-home orders and stores closed throughout the nation.  Mark Cohen, the director of retail studies, explains on the latest episode of...

  
• 04.24.2020

  Setting Policy for What Comes After COVID-19: Dr. Faheem Ahmed ‘20

  Like many of his classmates, Dr. Faheem Ahmed started the spring semester, primed to put the finishing touches on his MBA. But after COVID-19 began to spread, he relocated to his home in London to complete his degree remotely and...

  
• 04.16.2020

  Jacquie Henderson '17: Building Ad Hoc COVID-19 Testing Sites STAT

  Jacquie Henderson '17 works in strategy and operations for a seven hospital health system that serves communities in New York's Hudson Valley and in Western Connecticut. When the virus hit, her responsibilities quickly shifted. In this episode, Henderson talks about...

  
• 04.10.2020

  Tommy Hendrix ‘17: Fighting COVID-19 As an Alumnus and a Green Beret

  We’re pivoting Bizcast. Starting with this episode, we’ll be covering the business impacts of COVID-19 from multiple perspectives. Our first guest is Tommy Hendrix ‘17, who discusses his current work searching gray markets for personal protective equipment to redistribute to...

  
• 03.19.2020

  Welcome and See You Soon: Introducing Our Deferred Enrollment Program

  This month, the School welcomed its inaugural group of undergraduate seniors and non-professional Master’s students into the new Deferred Enrollment Program. The program allows accepted students to defer their MBA or EMBA start date for between two to five years,...

  
• 03.12.2020

  Work Breaks Don't Signal Career Brakes: Lee Georgs '03

  In our second episode featuring the School’s UK-based graduates, we visit with Lee Georgs ’03, the Chief Operating Officer of Corporate for the investment consultancy Redington and co-President of the London alumni club. Georgs has held positions with some of...

  
• 02.27.2020

  The Journey is the Destination: Virgin Atlantic CEO Shai Weiss ’97

  For the next few months, Bizcast will be bringing you stories and interviews from our recent UK visit, where we met with members of the CBS Alumni Club of London.  We start our journey across the pond with Shai Weiss...

  
• 02.13.2020

  Next Steps for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at CBS

  In 2018, at the urging of students and faculty, the Business School formed two committees to study issues surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the CBS community. In this episode, Gita Johar, Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and...

  
• 01.30.2020

  Analytics in Action

  On this episode of Bizcast we’re back in the classroom to learn about Analytics in Action, an innovative masterclass that brings together MBA and engineering students with representatives from companies such as Viacom and Citigroup to solve real business problems...

  
• 01.16.2020

  Prof. Michael Slepian Reveals the Truth about Secrecy

  Listen in to some revelations about secrets with Michael Slepian, the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics. Professor Slepian researches the effect of secret-keeping on our personal and professional lives. According to his findings, being...

  
• 12.12.2019

  A Rockette Takes Her Next Step at CBS

  In which we kick back and chat with former Rockette and current CBS student, Kristin Jantzie, ’21. Jantzie opens up about the discipline it took to sustain her 13-year run as a member of the world-famous dance troupe. She details...

  
• 11.22.2019

  A Feast of Social Change

  First, we speak with Eat Offbeat, the New York-based catering company founded by Wissam Kahi ’04 and his sister Manal Kahi, SIPA ’15. Eat Offbeat hires refugees and trains them to prepare cuisine from their native countries. Next, we check...

  
• 11.11.2019

  From the Military to CBS: a Veterans Day episode with Brooke Jones-Chinetti ’18, Dan Brillman ’12, and Taylor Justice ’14

  In honor of Veterans Day, Bizcast is revisiting conversations we had with three CBS alumni, all former service members. All three are working to support veterans in their transition to civilian life. EMBA graduate Brooke Jones-Chinetti ’18 served in the...

  
• 10.29.2019

  Dean Costis Maglaras: Leading CBS Into Its Next Era

  On this edition of Bizcast, we welcome the new dean of Columbia Business School, Costis Maglaras, to the podcast. In our conversation, Dean Maglaras shares his vision for the School, the opportunity to innovate the curriculum, and the transformational potential...

  
• 10.17.2019

  Kesha Cash ’10: Investing in Underserved Communities

  On this episode of Bizcast, we revisit our conversation with Impact America Fund founder Kesha Cash ’10. Named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People for 2018, Kesha told us about a point in her career when she needed to...

  
• 10.03.2019

  The Polarization Project

  On this episode of Columbia Bizcast, we’re invited to dine with the Polarization Project. Recent EMBA graduates Brianna O’Brien Lowndes ’19, Charlie Kreitler ’19, and Emmett Lamb ’19 founded this discussion series, in which a faculty expert lectures on a global issue...

  
• 04.12.2019

  Professor Bruce Craven: Leadership Secrets from Game of Thrones

  Leadership lessons from Jon Snow, Ned Stark, and Professor Bruce Craven. Professor Craven's book, Win or Die: Leadership Secrets from Game of Thrones, offers a trove of leadership lessons for managing groups and implementing change. In this episode of Columbia...

  
• 02.18.2019

  Dean Glenn Hubbard: The Need for Resilient Business Leaders

  “Whatever the big social problem is, I’d like to believe that business people are leading that charge and not just waiting for politics,” Hubbard says in his second appearance on the podcast. With the US government recently emerging from a...

  
• 02.04.2019

  Professor Michael Mauskapf: What Makes Popular Culture Popular?

  What makes an idea go viral, a song become a hit, or a startup turn into a stock-listed powerhouse? It often happens, according to Assistant Professor Michael Mauskapf, because of an optimal mix of oldness and newness. Be it a...

  
• 01.14.2019

  Professor Rita McGrath: The End of Competitive Advantage

  Developing a successful organizational strategy isn’t easy, especially in an unpredictable business climate. Navigating a shifting landscape requires leaders to abandon pre-conceived notions and think differently, according to Rita Gunther McGrath, a professor in the Business School’s Executive Education program....

  
• 12.17.2018

  Phoebe Boyer '93: Helping Children to Learn, Grow, and Lead

  “Engage,” says the president and CEO of education nonprofit organization Children’s Aid. “Don't sit on the sidelines.” Child homelessness is at a record high in New York City, with one in 10 students in public schools living in temporary housing....

  
• 12.10.2018

  Professor Jing Dong: Improving Managerial Decisions with Data

  Any hospital patient basically wants two things: to get well and to get out. Jing Dong is helping that happen faster. An assistant professor in the division of Decision, Risk, and Operations, Dong is at the forefront of research into...

  
• 12.03.2018

  Manuel Wiechers ECLA '17: Iluméxico Fights Energy Poverty

  Through the startup Iluméxico, this graduate is bringing solar power to Mexicans who live off the grid. One in seven people worldwide lacks access to electricity, including some 3 million people in Manuel Wiechers’ home country of Mexico. But he’s...

  
• 11.20.2018

  Eat Offbeat: Helping Adventurous Eaters Find Refuge

  The startup Eat Offbeat turns refugees into chefs who share their homeland’s cuisines. It all began with a food craving. A native of Lebanon, Wissam Kahi ’04 had been living in New York City for more than a decade when...

  
• 11.12.2018

  Anna Rawson '15: Beating Your Last Best Score

  Why would a pro golfer want an MBA? On this episode of Columbia Bizcast, Anna Rawson ’15 talks about her road to the Business School after winning a national golf championship at the University of Southern California and playing three...

  
• 11.05.2018

  Ryan Jacobs '19: The Art of Speechwriting

  “Good speeches, as a rule, generally push a single idea,” says the former speechwriter for the Obama Administration. When the Democratic National Committee needed a volunteer speechwriter in 2012, Ryan Jacobs ’19 was quick to put up his hand. The...