Tim Edgar, Executive Master in Cybersecurity (EMCS) faculty member, interviews John Grant, Palantir’s civil liberties engineer, who recently spoke to our students about the importance of privacy and civil liberties in the company’s mission to build better institutions for all.

Power. It’s essential for leadership. But to wield it effectively, do we need to better understand the interplay between the person designated as the leader and those being led?

Listen to this interview with Brown University Professor of Psychology Joachim Krueger to find out how he explores the power dynamic in his Brown Executive class, Psychological Perspectives on Strategic Decision-Making.

Head Rules is a five-part podcast series with Professor Joachim Krueger. Each episode analyzes a specific topic - creativity, happiness, decision-making, trust, and power - from a psychological perspective to attune leadership to a more nuanced understanding of human behavior.

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We all make decisions on a regular basis but how do we actually do it? How can understanding this process make us more decisive and effective leaders?

Listen to this interview with Brown University Professor of Psychology Joachim Krueger whose expertise lies in the psychology of strategic reasoning and behavior. You’ll get a glimpse of how he explores decision-making and leadership in his Brown Executive class, Psychological Perspectives on Strategic Decision-Making.

Head Rules is a five-part podcast series with Professor Joachim Krueger. Each episode analyzes a specific topic - creativity, happiness, decision-making, trust, and power - from a psychological perspective to attune leadership to a more nuanced understanding of human behavior.

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Trust. It’s implicit in any work relationship yet little understood. Explore this mysterious bond in this Head Rules podcast episode with Brown University Professor of Psychology Joachim Krueger

You’ll learn about the connection Krueger identifies between micromanagement styles and the bedrock assumption that workers must trust and ultimately follow management.

You’ll also get a sense of the provocative ideas and questions that define Krueger’s Brown Executive class, Psychological Perspectives on Strategic Decision-Making.

Head Rules is a five-part podcast series with Professor Joachim Krueger. Each episode analyzes a specific topic - creativity, happiness, decision-making, trust, and power - from a psychological perspective to attune leadership to a more nuanced understanding of human behavior.

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Transforming healthcare and achieving the triple aim. We all know we need to do it. The question is how. Executive Master in Healthcare Leadership faculty member Jim Austin sheds light on this subject in his new book, "Transformative Planning: How Your Healthcare Organization Can Strategize for an Uncertain Future". The book is based on Austin’s extensive experience working with healthcare organizations, such as hospitals, physician groups, and pharmacy benefit managers. Enjoy this mini-interview to find out how Austin packs into 120 pages a “how-to” guide for leaders looking to drive transformative change in a rapidly changing industry. Austin is currently a principal at Decision Strategies International, and previously served as a former senior executive at Baxter Healthcare.

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In this interview, we ask Brown University's Executive Master in Cybersecurity faculty member, Deborah Hurley, how the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal should be viewed from the perspective of laws in the US and beyond. Based on the current facts, Hurley tells us, Facebook probably wouldn’t be liable for violating personal data and privacy protections of the American Facebook users. But, in a world where users and their data are global, US laws aren’t the only ones Facebook needs to worry about. Listen to this podcast to learn more about the potential legal fallout for Facebook from the Cambridge Analytica scandal under different nations’ laws as they exist today and post May 25, 2018 when the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect. Hurley is an adjunct professor of the practice of computer science at Brown University, Fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, and seminal player in the development of industry standards for information technology for the past 30 years.

If you’d like to hear more, listen to our other episode with Hurley where she talks about the Seven Stages of GDPR.

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You’ve heard of the Seven Stages of Grief. Get ready for the Seven Stages of GDPR. Brown University's Executive Master of Cybersecurity faculty member Deborah Hurley came up with this model to explain American companies’ painful path to hope and acceptance of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); a European Union law that goes into full effect May 25, 2018 with wide-ranging consequences for companies on both sides of the Atlantic.

Listen to this podcast to find out why American companies need to strengthen their understanding of the GDPR’s scope, penalties and requirements for compliance. Learn why this new world of GDPR demands cybersecurity leaders with both technology and policy expertise to drive strategy for the threats and challenges of today and tomorrow.

Hurley is an adjunct professor of the practice of computer science at Brown University, Fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, and seminal player in the development of industry standards for information technology for the past 30 years.

If you’d like to hear more, listen to our other episode with Hurley where she talks about the Cambridge Analytica scandal from a legal perspective.

Stay tuned for more podcasts from the Executive Master in Cybersecurity program that covers this industry across the technology and policy spectrum.

The repeal of Obamacare represents a seismic shift in the healthcare industry. To find out how the Brown Executive Master of Healthcare Leadership (EMHL) program prepares leaders to move their organizations forward in uncertain times, we talk with Jim Austin, an EMHL faculty member and Principal at Decision Strategies International. Previously Jim established an HMO in Chicago and served as a Vice President at Baxter Healthcare.

Recently Jim Austin jointly published, Leading Strategic Change in an Era of Healthcare Transformation, with two other EMHL faculty members, Judith D. Bentkover and Larry Chait.

For information on our Executive Master programs, visit brown.edu/executive

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In this podcast, Brown University Professor of Psychology Joachim Krueger shares his concern about our resigned approach to happiness. He asks, must happiness, like luck, always be left to chance? He also discusses how he explores in his Brown Executive class, Psychological Perspectives on Strategic Decision-Making, the potential of happiness to serve as a tool to strengthen individual leadership, workplace culture and corporate profitability.

Head Rules is a five-part podcast series with Professor Joachim Krueger. Each episode analyzes a specific topic - creativity, happiness, decision-making, trust, and power - from a psychological perspective to attune leadership to a more nuanced understanding of human behavior.

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In this podcast, Brown University Professor of Psychology Joachim Krueger explores the psychology of creativity. He also shares how his Brown Executive class, Psychological Perspectives on Strategic Decision-Making, offers a unique opportunity to discover with senior professional students linkages between the mind’s creative machinery and the cultivation of innovation in today’s knowledge economy.

Head Rules is a five-part podcast series with Professor Joachim Krueger. Each episode analyzes a specific topic - creativity, happiness, decision-making, trust, and power - from a psychological perspective to attune leadership to a more nuanced understanding of human behavior.

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