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A weekly podcast featuring the leading thinkers in business and management.

    New Here: Getting a Raise Is a Process, Not a Conversation

    New Here: Getting a Raise Is a Process, Not a Conversation

    Introducing HBR’s podcast for young professionals, New Here, hosted by Elainy Mata. Whether it’s your first job or a fresh start, New Here will help you build a meaningful career on your own terms. In this episode, author and personal finance expert Anne-Lyse Ngatta and author, career advisor, and past HBR IdeaCast guest Gorick Ng explain how to lay the groundwork before you ask for a raise, when and how to start the conversation with your manager, and how to navigate the negotiation that may follow.

    • 33 min
    Fast Casual Food Pioneer Ron Shaich Explains How to Find a Niche — and then Scale

    Fast Casual Food Pioneer Ron Shaich Explains How to Find a Niche — and then Scale

    The restaurant business is notoriously competitive and often propelled by passing fads. But, first at the helm of Au Bon Pain, and then as the founder of Panera Bread, Ron Shaich managed to create an entirely new category of dining between fast food and table service and then dominate that market in the United States. He says the strategies that brought him success can be applied in any type of organization:  listen to and observe customers so you know what they want, create a truly differentiated offering, execute with excellence, and find the right opportunities to grow. He’s employed this playbook as an investor in newer ventures like Cava and Tatte, as well. Shaich wrote the book Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations.

    • 30 min
    Why Private Equity Needs to Invest More in Talent Development

    Why Private Equity Needs to Invest More in Talent Development

    Traditionally, private equity companies have created value at the companies they own by taking on debt, restructuring, and exploiting underserved opportunities. But surging interest rates and increased competition have made it much harder to deliver strong returns. Ted Bililies, a partner and managing director of AlixPartners, says private equity leaders can no longer count on financial engineering to drive performance. Instead, they need to invest in the human capital at their portfolio companies. Bililies wrote the HBR article “Private Equity Needs a New Talent Strategy.”

    • 22 min
    Nvidia’s CEO On What It Takes To Run An A.I.-Led Company Now

    Nvidia’s CEO On What It Takes To Run An A.I.-Led Company Now

    The future of AI goes far beyond individuals using ChatGPT. Companies are now integrating artificial intelligence into all aspects of their businesses. One key player in this transition is Nvidia, the AI-driven computing company, which makes both hardware and software for a range of industries. In this episode, HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius speaks with Nvidia’s CEO and cofounder Jensen Huang at HBR’s Future of Business conference about how he keeps his company agile in the face of accelerating change and where he sees AI going next.

    • 22 min
    A High-Performance Coach on the Key to Achieving Your Full Potential

    A High-Performance Coach on the Key to Achieving Your Full Potential

    What holds many people back from attaining the success they want - whether it's winning an Olympic medal or a seat in the C-suite - isn’t a lack of effort or talent. It’s the fear of other people’s opinions. That’s according to Michael Gervais, a performance expert and founder of the consultancy Finding Mastery. He works with top athletes and executives around the world to help them overcome FOPO and improve their performance and well-being. Gervais is the author of the book The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying about What People Think of You.

    • 29 min
    How Job Training Must Change in the AI Age

    How Job Training Must Change in the AI Age

    The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence technology is creating, destroying, and changing jobs. And Harvard Business School professor Raffaella Sadun has been studying how leading companies are training and reskilling employees for this new paradigm. She says many firms underestimate how quickly and significantly workers will need to be reskilled and leave this effort to the HR department. Instead, she explains leaders and middle managers across the company are essential to manage this change. With Jorge Tamayo and Leila Doumi of HBS and Sagar Goel and Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic of the BCG Henderson Institute, Sadun wrote the HBR article “Reskilling in the Age of AI.”

    • 28 min

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1.6K Ratings

1.6K Ratings

Eddie J. Soto ,

4 business ideas episode was great!

I love the panel discussing productivity in the workplace and its history definition. It's hilarious how much it has changed.

Private Citizen 2.0 ,

This is a political podcast disguised as a business podcast

HBR is captured by a “woke” ideology. It’s no longer focused on business success.

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Let the Golden Rule help

Re: you podcast on rude customer behavior

It does seem we live in an angrier society and I appreciate hearing Ms. Porath’s well studied insights.

After listening I took a moment to ponder your conversation and was reminded of the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. Reminders of this simple but always effective behavior have faded in our society.

Perhaps recreating widespread awareness of the Golden Rule is another strategy to remind our over stressed society to be civil at all times.

Thanks for a thought provoking podcast.

Curt Vapor

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