183 episodes

Something big is happening in the world of business. CEOs increasingly say their jobs have become less about giving orders, more about inspiring, motivating, setting a north star. They are taking the lead on big issues like climate change, worker retraining, and diversity and inclusion. They are under pressure from employees, customers and investors not just to turn a profit, but to prove they are doing good in the world. And in the process, they are fundamentally redefining the relationship between business and society. Join Fortune CEO Alan Murray and Editor-at-Large Michal Lev-Ram as they probe the best of these leaders for insight into what they're doing, why they're doing it, and what impact it is having.

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    • 4.5 • 96 Ratings

Something big is happening in the world of business. CEOs increasingly say their jobs have become less about giving orders, more about inspiring, motivating, setting a north star. They are taking the lead on big issues like climate change, worker retraining, and diversity and inclusion. They are under pressure from employees, customers and investors not just to turn a profit, but to prove they are doing good in the world. And in the process, they are fundamentally redefining the relationship between business and society. Join Fortune CEO Alan Murray and Editor-at-Large Michal Lev-Ram as they probe the best of these leaders for insight into what they're doing, why they're doing it, and what impact it is having.

    LinkedIn CEO: These Kinds Of Jobs Could Be Most At Risk For Automation

    LinkedIn CEO: These Kinds Of Jobs Could Be Most At Risk For Automation

    Everyone is talking about AI and jobs. Will AI take jobs? Will it add jobs? What skills do I need to sharpen as AI continues to impact work? Ryan Roslansky, CEO of LinkedIn, talks with cohosts Alan and Michal about what he’s seeing in the data.
    Roslansky explains why he is transforming LinkedIn into an AI company, and what that will look like for users as well as employees. He also discusses how he feels the education system needs to evolve to accommodate the rapidly growing AI boom; the edge LinkedIn benefits from by being under the Microsoft umbrella; and how he has changed as a leader over the last 10 years.
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    Chewy CEO Wants His Customers To Feel Like They’re At Disney

    Chewy CEO Wants His Customers To Feel Like They’re At Disney

    E-commerce is a notoriously competitive landscape—but online pet retailer Chewy has managed to not just survive, but thrive. Since joining the company in 2018, CEO Sumit Singh has shepherded Chewy through its IPO in 2019 and its debut on the Fortune 500 list in 2021.

    He talks with Alan and Michal about Chewy’s obsession with customer loyalty; his background in e-commerce and supply chain, with top leadership positions at Amazon and Dell prior to joining Chewy; what he learned from Jeff Bezos; the company’s expansion into veterinary health care; and more. Plus—the guest and hosts have a chance to share a little bit about their own furry friends.

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    Autodesk CEO Believes AI Can Help Solve Housing Supply Challenges—And Do It Sustainably

    Autodesk CEO Believes AI Can Help Solve Housing Supply Challenges—And Do It Sustainably

    Autodesk is a 1980s software company that continues to reinvent itself. CEO Andrew Anagnost attributes this to the company’s ability to be the first to “kill our own businesses.”

    Anagnost goes into detail about how he sees AI impacting architecture, specifically when it comes to sustainable construction. He and cohosts Alan and Michal also discuss AI regulation; his “problematic” teenage years; what he learned from former Autodesk CEOs Carol Bartz and Carl Bass; and industrial fungus.

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    Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins Discusses Resilience Through a “Constant Time of Crisis”

    Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins Discusses Resilience Through a “Constant Time of Crisis”

    Alan sits down with Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins at a Fortune CEO Initiative dinner in NYC, to have a conversation focused on his new role as chair of the Business Roundtable.

    Robbins discusses the challenges facing business today, and what he hopes the BRT can accomplish during the next presidential administration, including improvement to trade and immigration, and better policy around tech. He also shares why he believes Cisco continues to be at the top of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For.

    This conversation was recorded on March 20, 2024.

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    • 25 min
    How Otis CEO Judy Marks Doubled The Company’s Stock Price

    How Otis CEO Judy Marks Doubled The Company’s Stock Price

    Alan sits down with Judy Marks at Deloitte University in Westlake, Texas, to have a wide-ranging conversation about Judy’s career in front of an audience of next-generation CEOs.

    She recalls Otis’s 2020 spinoff from United Technologies; what she learned as CEO of the newly independent company during COVID; Otis’s growth in the last four years, boosted by its innovation and service business; geopolitics and Otis’s business in China; sustainability; how tariffs impact consumers’ pocketbooks; and what’s next for the 170-year-old company.


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    Fannie Mae’s CEO Priscilla Almodovar Says “American Dream Is Still Very Much Alive,” But There’s A Catch

    Fannie Mae’s CEO Priscilla Almodovar Says “American Dream Is Still Very Much Alive,” But There’s A Catch

    Priscilla Almodovar, CEO of Fannie Mae, is the only Latina on the Fortune 500. She talks to Michal and Alan about how she uses her platform as CEO to make housing more equitable, and recalls her Puerto Rican parents buying their first home on Long Island, N.Y., and how important a piece of the American Dream that was for them.
    She also discusses her experience as a woman on Wall Street; how Latinos are becoming a bigger percentage of U.S. homeowners; what she learned from Jamie Dimon; her 2024 housing outlook; and tips for first-time buyers.

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Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
96 Ratings

96 Ratings

MovieJ24 ,

Great insight

I am liking the podcast’s format and its content so far. I specifically like how Alan Murray invites leading figures in the business world to the episode in order to get their different perpsectives on the topic. I also appreciate how the episodes are not long. However ,there are better episodes than others. As a suggestion, you may include a few questions from listeners on the topic at hand so that they get answered in the podcast.

Keep the podcasts coming...

Czar One ,

A veritable companion

I find this podcast continually fascinating by your choice of guests and their pivotal view of business, and what business should do WITH society. I think you are onto a major mindshift on the purpose of business.

Constance Hubbell ,

Dynamic Team , Highly Entertaining, Superior Insights

Co-hosts Alan Murray and Ellen McGirt have extraordinary chemistry as co-hosts. They do a fabulous job interviewing iconic CEOs and newsmakers. With each new episode, I learn something new. You will too.

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