MIT TALKS

Andrew McAfee is the Co-Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management.  In this episode of MIT TALKS, he shares his experience of what it was like for him to speak at TED, what his new revealing book is about, and what he does to challenge himself in his downtime!

Introduction to MIT TALKS new season and co-hosts

Host Gayatri Aryan talks to Prof. Ed Roberts. Pronounced as "Godfather of Entrepreneurship" now, he helped establish Entrepreneurship as a branch of science that could be taught.

Prof. Roberts has recently published a book: Celebrating Entrepreneurs. All the author proceeds from this book will be donated to the MIT Entrepreneurship Program.

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Guests: Prof. Ed Roberts
Produced by: Dave Lishansky
Artwork by: Vibha Verma
Music by: Marco Valentino

Host Gayatri Aryan talks to Paul Levy.  As CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), one of nation's preeminent academic medical center, Paul received national attention in 2009 for leading the workers at BIDMC to avoid hundreds of layoffs by engaging them in the crowdsourcing of ideas to save money as the hospital faced deficits due to the national recession.

Paul, along with his colleagues, published the following HBR article recently articulating their thoughts on layoffs during crisis: https://hbr.org/2020/03/the-coronavirus-crisis-doesnt-have-to-lead-to-layoffs.

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Guests: Paul Levy
Produced by: Dave Lishansky
Artwork by: Vibha Verma
Music by: Marco Valentino

Host Gayatri Aryan talks to Dr. Trish Cotter, Executive Director at Martin Trust Center and Carly Chase, Founding Managing Director at NYC Startup Studio (an extension of MTC). 

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Guests: Trish Cotter and Carly Chase
Produced by: Dave Lishansky
Artwork by: Vibha Verma
Music by: Marco Valentino

Host Gayatri Aryan talks to Dr. Eric Miller and Dr. Malvika Verma about their moonshot to deal with world's leading infectious cause of death: Tuberculosis.  While Eric is focused on streamlining the diagnosis process, Malvika is innovating around medication adherence.

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Guests: Dr. Eric Miller and Dr. Malvika Verma
Produced by: Dave Lishansky
Artwork by: Vibha Verma
Music by: Marco Valentino

Host Gayatri Aryan talks to Kathleen Stetson. CEO and coach, Kathleen helps many-hats-wearing people better understand themselves and the world around them.

Kathleen led the first self-awareness program for entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurial Confidence and Communication (ECC), for MIT Sloan's delta v accelerator in Summer 2019.

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Guest: Kathleen Stetson (www.kathleenstetson.com)
Produced by: Dave Lishansky
Artwork by: Vibha Verma
Music by: Marco Valentino

Host Gayatri Aryan talks to Dr. Diane Rigos, Executive Director at MIT Tata Center for Technology & Design. Tata Center is part of MIT Energy Initiative, MIT’s hub for energy research, education and outreach.

In addition, we get to hear from three Tata Fellows working on ground breaking ideas and their impact on people in developing countries:

• Kriti Subramanyam
• Somya Singhvi
• Piyush Verma

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Produced by: Dave Lishansky
Artwork by: Vibha Verma
Music by: Marco Valentino

Host Gayatri Aryan introduces MIT Club of Boston, its mission and the goal for this podcast series.

Produced by: Dave Lishansky
Artwork by: Vibha Verma
Music by: Marco Valentino