How to Negotiate Better
Jeff Weiss, author of the "HBR Guide to Negotiating" and partner at Vantage Partners, explains how to prepare to be persuasive.
Jan 08, 2015•19 min•Ep. 443
HBR IdeaCast
A weekly podcast featuring the leading thinkers in business and management.
Episodes
Skills We Can Learn from Games
Andrew Innes, game designer, product manager, and author of "What Board Games Can Teach Business."
Dec 30, 2014•12 min•Ep. 442
The Condensed January-February 2015 Issue
Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.
Dec 19, 2014•16 min•Ep. 441
What Makes Teams Smart (or Dumb)
Cass Sunstein, Harvard professor and author of "Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter."
Dec 18, 2014•18 min•Ep. 440
Communicate Better with Your Global Team
Tsedal Neeley, Harvard Business School professor, explains how globally distributed teams can collaborate better together.
Dec 11, 2014•17 min•Ep. 439
Explaining Silicon Valley’s Success
AnnaLee Saxenian, author of the classic book "Regional Advantage," still thinks the area's future is bright.
Dec 04, 2014•14 min•Ep. 438
Learning What Wiser Workers Know
Dorothy Leonard, author of "Critical Knowledge Transfer" and Harvard Business School professor, on retaining organizational expertise.
Nov 25, 2014•19 min•Ep. 437
Making Good Decisions
Stanford's Ron Howard, one of the fathers of decision analysis, explains how it's done.
Nov 20, 2014•17 min•Ep. 436
The Condensed December 2014 Issue
Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.
Nov 18, 2014•20 min•Ep. 435
Boris Johnson on Influence and Ambition
The mayor of London explains why Churchill is a role model and whether his aspirations include the Prime Minister's office.
Nov 13, 2014•12 min•Ep. 434
How to Change Someone’s Behavior with Minimal Effort
Steve J. Martin, coauthor of "The Small Big: Small Changes That Spark Big Influence," on the little things that persuade.
Nov 06, 2014•17 min•Ep. 433
Is the Corporate Campus Dying?
Jennifer Magnolfi, Founder & Principal Investigator at Programmable Habitats LLC, on how digital work, and the Internet of Things will fundamentally change the how we use the buildings and neighborhoods we work in.
Oct 30, 2014•16 min•Ep. 432
Myths About Entrepreneurship
Linda Rottenberg, author of "Crazy Is a Compliment," on what it really takes to start a business.
Oct 23, 2014•19 min•Ep. 431
Disrupting TV’s Status Quo
Famed producer Norman Lear on developing groundbreaking sitcoms, managing creative partnerships and the lessons he wants to pass on to the next generation.
Oct 16, 2014•10 min•Ep. 430
The Condensed November 2014 Issue
Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.
Oct 14, 2014•18 min•Ep. 429
Focus More on Value Capture
Stefan Michel, professor at IMD, says your business should rethink how it captures value, not just how it creates it.
Oct 09, 2014•12 min•Ep. 428
Does Your Sales Team Know Your Strategy?
Frank Cespedes, HBS professor and author of "Aligning Strategy and Sales," explains how to get the front line on board.
Oct 02, 2014•20 min•Ep. 427
How Google Manages Talent
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, and Jonathan Rosenberg, former SVP of products, explain how the company manages their smart, creative team.
Sep 26, 2014•18 min•Ep. 426
Fixing the College Grad Hiring Process
Sanjeev Agrawal, Collegefeed cofounder and CEO, explains what recruiters, new graduates, and college career centers need to do differently.
Sep 18, 2014•24 min•Ep. 425
How Silicon Valley Became Uncool
Walter Frick, HBR editor, explains why we valorize tech heroes from the past, but scoff at today's entrepreneurs.
Sep 11, 2014•13 min•Ep. 424
The Condensed October 2014 Issue
Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.
Sep 09, 2014•24 min•Ep. 423
The Fall of the Talent Economy?
Roger Martin, former dean of the Rotman School of Management, on why talent's powerful economic position is unsustainable.
Sep 04, 2014•20 min•Ep. 422
Privacy’s Shrinking Future
Scott Berinato, senior editor at Harvard Business Review, on how companies benefit from transparency about customer data.
Aug 28, 2014•16 min•Ep. 421
How to Stop Corporate Inversions
Bill George and Mihir Desai, professors at Harvard Business School, explain why our corporate tax code is driving American business overseas.
Aug 21, 2014•15 min•Ep. 420
Prevent Employees from Leaking Data
David Upton and Sadie Creese, both of Oxford, explain why the scariest threats are from insiders.
Aug 14, 2014•15 min•Ep. 419
The Condensed September 2014 Issue
Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.
Aug 12, 2014•20 min•Ep. 418
The Art of Managing Science
J. Craig Venter, the biologist who led the effort to sequence human DNA, on unlocking the human genome and the importance of building extraordinary teams for long-term results.
Aug 07, 2014•14 min•Ep. 417
The Dangers of Confidence
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor at University College London, on how confidence masks incompetence.
Jul 31, 2014•17 min•Ep. 416
The Future of Talent Is Potential
Linda Hill, Harvard Business School professor, and Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, senior adviser at Egon Zehnder, on the talent strategies that set up a company for long-term success.
Jul 24, 2014•22 min•Ep. 415
To Do Things Better, Stop Doing So Much
Greg McKeown, author of "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less," on the importance of being "absurdly selective" in how we use our time.
Jul 17, 2014•16 min•Ep. 414
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