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Chicago Booth Review Podcast Chicago Booth Review
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The Chicago Booth Review Podcast is the audio companion to CBR’s coverage of the latest academic research in business, policy, and markets. Each week we dig into CBR articles and videos to examine a different topic in depth, from inflation to artificial intelligence. Join host and CBR editor-in-chief Hal Weitzman for groundbreaking research, explained in a clear and straightforward way.
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How should companies respond to ‘woke capitalism’?
Companies in the US have faced a new kind of pressure in recent years from ‘stakeholder capitalism’ or ‘woke capitalism.’ How should corporations respond? In this episode, we bring you a conversation between Alison Taylor, a Clinical Associate Professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business and the author of the author of Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World, and Chicago Booth’s John Paul Rollert. The conversation was recorded at an event co-sponsored by Chicago Booth Review, Booth’s Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation, and the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State.
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Why AI might not make you more productive
AI promises to make us all be more productive, so what role does old-fashioned management play? Chicago Booth’s Chad Syverson says management still matters, and even the best technology won’t necessarily improve productivity if the right managers aren’t in place. But what does good management even mean in the age of hybrid work and remote teams?
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Raghuram Rajan: your doctor could be in India
The market for services is global, and many of us are used to having our issues fielded by someone in India. For decades, big companies in the US and Europe have set up global capability centers in India to handle back-office operations. In this episode, we hear from Chicago Booth’s Raghuram Rajan, who sees the future of India’s economy as moving from the back office to the front-of-house. This is the second of our two conversations with Rajan about his new book, Breaking the Mold: India’s Untraveled Path to Prosperity.
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David Brooks on how to make others feel valued
New York Times columnist David Brooks’ latest book, How to Know a Person is about our ability to know others, and to make them feel valued and understood. In this episode, Brooks talks to Chicago Booth’s Nick Epley about how seemingly small, everyday interactions can significantly shape our lives. Their conversation was part of the Think Better series, organized by Chicago Booth’s Roman Family Center for Decision Research.
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How to fix a toxic working culture
Most US companies have a toxic culture, according to Lucia Annunzio, Adjunct Associate Professor of Executive Education at Chicago Booth. The hallmarks are a lack of transparency, short-termism, and top-down leadership. As a result, employees feel micromanaged, stressed, and disengaged. So what can managers do to stop the toxicity and create a healthy work culture?
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Can India’s economy break the mold?
With a population of 1.4 billion, India is the world’s biggest democracy and already one of the world’s leading economies, but it still has huge potential to grow its economy. So how should India grow? And what does the country need to realize the potential of its human capital?
In this episode, we speak to Chicago Booth’s Raghuram Rajan, who served as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2013 to 2016, about his new book, Breaking the Mold: India’s Untraveled Path to Prosperity. This is the first of two podcasts with Rajan about the book.
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All the speakers do a great job of being articulate, thoughtful, and thorough. Hal W. asks the right questions at right time. Always a lot of be ideas to learn.
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