Demystifying Organizations

Sandra Sucher is a Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. Sucher is the author of over 100 business cases, technical notes, video interviews, and teaching notes cases on leadership and the ethical dilemmas of businesses and their managers, and two books: The Moral Leader: Challenges, Insights and Tools, and Teaching The Moral Leader: A Literature-based Leadership Course, A Guide For Instructors.

Tom Davenport is a professor of information technology and management at Babson College, the co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative for the Digital Economy, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. He has written or edited twenty books including The AI Advantage and over 250 print or digital articles for Harvard Business Review (HBR), Sloan Management Review, the Financial Times, and many other publications. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University and has taught at the Harvard Business School and the University of Chicago.

Will Dudley is the president of Washington and Lee University.  He was previously the provost and professor of philosophy at Williams College.  He is the author of two books, "Understanding German Idealism" (2007) and "Hegel, Nietzsche and Philosophy: Thinking Freedom" (2002). He is the editor of volumes on Kant and Hegel and has published numerous scholarly articles.

Tricia Griffith is the CEO and president of Progressive Insurance, the 3rd largest auto insurance company in The United States.  In 2018, Tricia became the first women to be named Fortune’s Businessperson of the year.  She leads Progressive’s 33,000 employees. We discuss a range of issues including culture, managing executives, diversity, technology and leadership. 

Peter Singer has been dubbed by many as the “world’s most influential living philosopher.”  Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University.  He has written co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 50 books, untold number of articles and his writings have appeared in more than 25 languages. Singer is the founder and board chair of The Life You Can Save, a nonprofit that fights extreme poverty.

Stephen P. Willams and Jeff Schatten discuss the promise of blockchain, some of the attributes and challenges inherent in cryptocurrencies and the ways in which blockchain might change the world.  

Stephen P. Williams is a writer, journalist, and author, with over a dozen published books. Author of Blockchain: The Next Everything, from Scribner publishers.

Barry Schwartz and Jeff Schatten discuss why we work, what motives excellence, the and role that money plays in performance.         

Barry Schwartz is an emeritus professor of psychology at Swarthmore College and a visiting professor at the Haas School of Business at Berkeley. He has spent forty years thinking and writing about the interaction between economics and morality.  He has written several books that address aspects of this interaction, including The Battle for Human Nature, The Costs of Living, The Paradox of Choice, Practical Wisdom, and most recently, Why We Work. The Paradox of Choice was named one of the top business books of the year by both Business Week and Forbes Magazine, and has been translated into twenty-five languages. Schwartz has been interviewed on Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN), the PBS News Hour, The Colbert Report, and CBS Sunday Morning. Schwartz has spoken three times at the TED conference, and his TED talks have been viewed by more than 16 million people.

Nicolaj Siggelkow is a business Professor at the Wharton School of business at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a Ph.D. in Business Economics the Harvard Business School. His research on how firms create and sustain competitive advantage has been published in the leading management journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, and Organization Science. Professor Siggelkow is one of the most sought-after professors in Wharton’s MBA program, having been the recipient of more than 20 teaching awards. He also has extensive experience in executive education, teaching in a range of open enrollment and custom programs.

His most recent book “connected strategies” explores how to create tighter connections between firms and customers.

Roger Martin was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers.

Roger serves as the Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean. In 2013, he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business school website, Poets & Quants. 

He has published 11 books the most recent of which are Creating Great Choices, Getting Beyond Better  and Playing to Win  which won the award for Best Book of 2012-13 by the Thinkers50. He has written 25 Harvard Business Review articles.

Roger is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego and Verizon.

Celeste Headlee is an award-winning journalist, professional speaker and author of Heard Mentality and We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter. In her 20-year career in public radio, she has been the Executive Producer of On Second Thought at Georgia Public Radio and anchored programs including Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She also served as co-host of the national morning news show, The Takeaway, from PRI and WNYC, and anchored presidential coverage in 2012 for PBS World Channel. Celeste’s TEDx Talk sharing 10 ways to have a better conversation has over 19 million total views to date.