The Business

By Harvard Business School

Business Management & Marketing

What's The Business about?

The Business is a Harvard Business School podcast. Twice a month, host Brian Kenny will bring you a new take on the business world. Through unexpected stories, and conversations with business leaders, entrepreneurs and faculty members, our goal is to inspire listeners to think more broadly about the word business. Thanks for listening!

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Health Care is Every Compan...

02.19.2015

Every company is in the health care business, no matter its industry. So says John Quelch, a professor at both the Harvard Business School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where Quelch has devoted an entire class ...

The Business episodes:

02.19.2015 Health Care is Every Company’s Business Every company is in the health care business, no matter its industry. So says John Quelch, a professor at both the Harvard Business School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where Quelch has devoted an entire class ...
02.12.2015 You Don’t Know @Jack: Twitter’s Founder Talks Entrepreneurship Twitter’s Founder, Jack Dorsey, talks about the history of Twitter, the founding of Square, and how he made the transition from programmer to CEO.
02.12.2015 Man of the Year-Up: Creating Opportunity for Young Adults Year-Up, a business taking low-income 18 to 24 year olds from poverty to a professional career, seems more relevant than ever with business professionals pushing to fill the middle skills gap. Listen to last year’s interview with 2014 Harvard Business ...
02.12.2015 Philanthropy 2.0: Investing with a Purpose HBS alumnus Sir Ronald Cohen, founder of Apax Partners and known as the father of venture capital in Great Britain, sits down with CMO Brian Kenny on The Business to talk about the importance of social impact investing, a new ...
02.12.2015 The Men Behind the Mayors: How Business Can Impact Government HBS Alumni Dan Koh (MBA 2011) and Senior Lecturer Mitch Weiss (MBA 2004) both served as Chief of Staff to the Mayors of Boston. Under the guidance of former Mayor Tom Menino and Mayor Marty Walsh, they learned to lead ...
02.12.2015 Ernest Shackleton: The Entrepreneur of Survival On the 100th Anniversary of explorer Ernest Shakleton’s colossal failure to traverse Antarctica, professor and historian Nancy Koehn explains how Shackleton’s extraordinary crisis leadership ensured the survival of his crew. Listen for story of the Endurance expedition and lessons from ...
02.12.2015 Not Your Basic Business Books What books would guests on The Business give as holiday gifts? Listen for what Mitch Weiss, Dan Koh, Nancy Koehn, Max Bazerman, Frank Cespedes, and host Brian Kenny would recommend for the bookworm in your life.
02.12.2015 Collective Genius If you want to know what “collective genius” can look like, watch a Pixar film. Pixar Animation Studios produce the first computer generated (cg) feature film, “Toy Story,” nearly twenty years ago. More blockbusters followed, including “Finding Nemo,” and “Monsters, ...
02.12.2015 The Revival of a Salesman: The Importance of Sales and Strategy to Business Professor Frank Cespedes sits down to talk to Brian Kenny about his new book “Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling” and why sales and strategy are so important to business.
02.12.2015 Investing for Real and Permanent Good Carnegie Corporation co-Chief Investment Officers Kim Lew (MBA 1992) and Meredith Jenkins (MBA 1999) talk about investment with a mission, what it’s like to share a leadership role, and offer advice for women in the HBS class of 2014.
02.12.2015 Privacy and Productivity Harvard Business School Professor Ethan Bernstein talks about how, by planting researchers on factory lines in China, he found that giving employees more privacy can increase their productivity – a phenomenon he calls the Transparency Paradox.
02.12.2015 Can China Lead? A little over 100 years ago, the Chinese empire fell. 2000 years of imperial tradition ended, virtually overnight. After a century of searching for its political and moral core, China is once again poised to become the dominant global power. ...
02.12.2015 Inside Bloomberg, Inc. with Chairman Peter Grauer When former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg left Bloomberg, Inc. to take office, he handed the reins to Peter Grauer. Grauer talks with The Business about leadership, the anatomy of the company, maintaining its momentum, and how he met the ...
02.12.2015 When Girl Meets Oil Christine Bader, author of The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil talks about what corporate social responsibility really means to big business.
02.12.2015 The Fourth Revolution: the Global Race to Reinvent the State Adrian Wooldridge, management editor and Schumpeter columnist at The Economist magazine, on his new book, The Fourth Revolution: the Global Race to Reinvent the State, written with John Micklethwait. They argue that global financial problems and technological innovation are forcing ...
02.12.2015 Stayin’ Alive: Technology and the End of Institutions What happens to institutions when technology gives people the power to do everything on their own? Today it is easier than ever for individuals to start businesses, engage in politics, share information and ideas, and disrupt the status quo. Harvard ...
02.12.2015 The Real Rick's Cafe – Building a Business in Casablanca You may remember Rick’s Café Americain as the gin joint in the movie Casablanca. For years Rick’s existed only on film. When Kathy Kriger, an American entrepreneur living in Casablanca, decided to bring Rick’s Café to life, she had no ...
02.12.2015 Carrying the (Olympic) Torch for Women's Sports HBS student and four-time Olympic medalist Angela Ruggiero just got back from the Russian town of Sochi, where she carried the Olympic torch on opening day. A former defenseman for the US women’s ice hockey team, Ruggiero is now a ...
02.12.2015 3 Ways to Innovate in a Stagnant Environment HBS Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter on innovation, advanced leadership, and how to make change in an inflexible organization. She also tells Brian why she has no use for the ‘r-word’: Retirement.
02.12.2015 The World is Anything but Flat Harvard Business School Professor John Quelch, author of All Business: Why Place Matters More Than Ever in a Global, Virtual World talks about the increasing importance of place in global marketing.
02.12.2015 Year Up: Why Investing in Young Adults Makes Sense Gerald Chertavian is founder and CEO of Year Up, a one-year professional skill development program for low income young adults. He talks with Brian about why four years of full-time higher education just won't work for a majority of Americans.
02.12.2015 Saving the Earth is Good Business World Wildlife Fund President and CEO Carter Roberts talks about why businesses need the planet just as much as the planet needs businesses.
02.12.2015 Connecting Communities to Improve Post-Disaster Recovery Disaster recovery platform Recovers.org emerged from the wreckage of a tornado that tore through a small town in Western Massachusetts. Co-founder Morgan O'Neill talks with us about creating the platform and HBS Professor Dutch Leonard, an expert in crisis management, ...
02.12.2015 Make Big Bets: How Blockbuster Strategies Work What do Jay Z, Harry Potter and Grand Theft Auto have in common? They're hugely successful thanks to blockbuster strategies. HBS professor Anita Elberse is an entertainment industry expert and author of "Blockbusters: Hit Making, Risk Taking and the Big ...
02.12.2015 Comeback Kids: How the Boston Red Sox went from last place to World Series Last year at this time the Boston Red Sox had already packed up their lockers and headed home after finishing last in their American League East division. This year, they're in the World Series. We talk to Red Sox COO ...
02.12.2015 Reading the Tea Leaves: Sourcing News from Chinese Social Media David Wertime is a founding editor of the online magazine Tea Leaf Nation. The site features English-language news stories about China, sourced entirely through Chinese social media. Last week Tea Leaf Nation was acquired by the Foreign Policy Group, a ...
02.12.2015 Authentic Leadership and the Defense of Marriage Act HBS Professor of Management Practice Bill George discusses the US Supreme Court decision to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, also known as DOMA, and the role of business and business leaders in social change.
02.12.2015 Success Spreads like Wildfire Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) never expected to start a company. She talks to Brian about her journey from a small New Zealand farming community to co-founder and CEO of social media marketing company Wildfire, acquired last summer by Google for ...
02.12.2015 Currency: Gautam Mukunda on Syria and Presidential Leadership in Times of Crisis As the world waits for an end to the crisis in Syria, President Obama is facing arguably the most challenging foreign policy situation of his presidency. HBS Professor of Business Administration Gautam Mukunda, author of Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, ...
02.12.2015 Happy Money, The Science Of Smarter Spending This week Brian talks to Michael I. Norton, co-author of the book Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, about why Mike says changing how we spend our money makes us happier.
02.11.2015 The Serial Entrepreneur: From E-Readers to Nuclear Fission : Russ Wilcox (MBA 1995) has helped revolutionize the publishing and nuclear energy industry as the co-founder of E Ink and Transatomic Power. He is also an entrepreneur in residence at Harvard Business School, working on his next big idea ...
02.11.2015 Words of Business Wisdom There is no time like the new year to make a resolution to be a better (business) you! Some of our guests from the past year share the best advice they have ever received during their careers in various business ...
02.11.2015 Blinded by the Light: Avoiding the Blind Spots of Leadership From post 9/11 to the Catholic Church and Penn State Football, many notable organizations have “leadership blind spots”. Professor Max Bazerman talks about the power of noticing in leadership position and how noticing can enhance an organization.

The Business

What's The Business about?

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The Business episodes:

Health Care is Every Company’s Business

You Don’t Know @Jack: Twitter’s Founder Talks Entrepreneurship

Man of the Year-Up: Creating Opportunity for Young Adults

Philanthropy 2.0: Investing with a Purpose

The Men Behind the Mayors: How Business Can Impact Government

Ernest Shackleton: The Entrepreneur of Survival

Not Your Basic Business Books

Collective Genius

The Revival of a Salesman: The Importance of Sales and Strategy to Business

Investing for Real and Permanent Good

Privacy and Productivity

Can China Lead?

Inside Bloomberg, Inc. with Chairman Peter Grauer

When Girl Meets Oil

The Fourth Revolution: the Global Race to Reinvent the State

Stayin’ Alive: Technology and the End of Institutions

The Real Rick's Cafe – Building a Business in Casablanca

Carrying the (Olympic) Torch for Women's Sports

3 Ways to Innovate in a Stagnant Environment

The World is Anything but Flat

Year Up: Why Investing in Young Adults Makes Sense

Saving the Earth is Good Business

Connecting Communities to Improve Post-Disaster Recovery

Make Big Bets: How Blockbuster Strategies Work

Comeback Kids: How the Boston Red Sox went from last place to World Series

Reading the Tea Leaves: Sourcing News from Chinese Social Media

Authentic Leadership and the Defense of Marriage Act

Success Spreads like Wildfire

Currency: Gautam Mukunda on Syria and Presidential Leadership in Times of Crisis

Happy Money, The Science Of Smarter Spending

The Serial Entrepreneur: From E-Readers to Nuclear Fission

Words of Business Wisdom

Blinded by the Light: Avoiding the Blind Spots of Leadership

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