Building a new business comes with a lot of uncertainty, but there's one thing companies can do to make the odds of survival as favorable as possible.

In this podcast, we talk with lecturer Jeff Hyman about how to identify, attract, and retain rockstar employees. Then we talk with Bernie Banks, Kellogg’s associate dean for leadership development and a retired brigadier general in the U.S. Army, about how to develop leadership talent from the ground up.

Music can be powerful. It can change our mood, and, research shows, even change our behavior.

In this podcast, we talk with professor Derek Rucker about his research on power songs and how they might shape the way we behave after we listen to them. Then we talk with Kris Kukul, a Broadway music director and orchestrator, who helps us understand how music is crafted in order to elicit an emotional reaction.

Ashwin Ram, one of the creators of Amazon Echo, describes how the artificial intelligence device is learning how to understand the ways we speak. Plus, a Kellogg School data scientist describes an algorithm that can identify new social-media hashtags as they emerge.

Learn how to most effectively give and receive feedback in the workplace. Then an expert on marriage discusses the ways our relationships can inform our work communications.

Learn how the science of regret can motivate us to keep connections with friends and colleagues. Then get a practical tool for staying front-of-mind with business connections.

We look into three questions: How do we know when to trust new information? What can reputable journalists do to convince their audience that they are not, in fact, fake news? And why are people particularly skeptical about institutions these days?

Why marketers and journalists benefit from an understanding of how effective lists are designed and deployed.