Stephanie Wander is a technology and innovation strategist with a successful track record of launching large-scale projects to solve global grand challenges. Ms. Wander’s approaches integrate innovation best practices and mindsets including design thinking, behavior change strategies, foresight techniques, and expert and public crowdsourcing. Previously, Stephanie Wander was a Lecturer at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work where she taught graduate Social Work professionals in Des...
Apr 15, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Faves is my second company. I’ve raised over $12.5 million from angels & VCs (including Mark Cuban and Pear VC, who gave DoorDash their first check). At my first startup, we set out to create a nail polish that detects date rape drugs. The product ended up becoming a keychain and has saved dozens of lives. I’m a member of the On Deck Fellowship and a graduate of Stanford Business School.
Apr 07, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this world full of plastic and chemical waste, how can you help save the planet? Did you know that there will be more plastic than fish in our seas by 2050? Did you know that it takes 20,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans? Did you know that we have a massive food wastage problem, and yet millions die of hunger each day? Bare Necessities is your one-stop guide on how to move towards a more sustainable lifestyle in India. Filled with activities, insights, recipes, tips and how-to guide...
Apr 07, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Roberts is director and professor at the School of Public Policy. He writes extensively on problems of governance, law, and public policy. His most recent book, Strategies for Governing , was published by Cornell University Press in 2020. Roberts was elected as a fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration in 2007. From 2009 to 2017, he was co-editor of the journal Governance . He serves on the editorial boards of several other journals in the field of public administra...
Apr 07, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rohan Pasricha is a US Army veteran currently working for Amazon as their Sr. Regional Manager for the South-West region. Rohan’s career path took a major shift when he ended up joining US Army after writing a blog in response to the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks. He was literally plucked out of the classroom on a US student visa and pulled into the US Army battlefield. He ended up doing his MBA from INSEAD after leaving the Army and ended up joining Amazon after graduation. Rohan had to go on ...
Apr 06, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ishan is an entrepreneur, global executive & team builder who loves creating and scaling up businesses. He is driven by the idea of democratising access across various dimensions and has spent all his professional life doing so through his work in the areas of education, finance & information. Ishan is currently the Global Head of Operations at Udacity. In this capacity, he is responsible for driving successful outcomes for customers worldwide and across consumer, enterprise a...
Apr 05, 2021•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ipshita is an incoming Stanford GSB MBA student, and is currently working with Nova Credit . Nova helps immigrants moving to the US start their financial journey on an equal footing, by helping them use their home country credit history, to access financial products in the US. Prior to Nova, Ipshita was the founder of a social-first content discovery platform for educational content. She also spent over three years in early-stage VC and impact investing in India. Ipshita believes in u...
Apr 04, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Inspired by the Socratic method, and a long tradition of philosophers who were interested in the practical side ofphilosophy, I am interested in working with people and enterprises to cultivate an action-driven, belief-disrupting,philosophical way of thinking.
Apr 04, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jed is a venture builder who has launched new tech businesses around the world. He's built and run the world's largest API Marketplace in partnership with A16Z-backed RapidAPI. He has been an angel investor and leads syndicate for 4 years. He recently launched Angel-School.co : A hands-on, fully-remote fellowship program to help emerging Angels invest via their own syndicates. He holds an MBA from INSEAD.
Apr 04, 2021•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sanjeev Sanyal is the Principal Economic Advisor to the Government of India. An internationally acclaimed economist and best-selling author, he spent two decades in the financial sector and was Global Strategist & Managing Director at Deutsche Bank till 2015. He was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010. He is also a well-known environmentalist and urban theorist. In 2007, he was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship for his work on urban dynamics. He has been a Vis...
Mar 03, 2021•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mohini Gupta is currently a research scholar in language politics at the University of Oxford. She founded the multilingual digital collective Mother Tongue Twisters to promote Indian language poetry for young readers, and curate conversations on literary translation. Mohini was the Charles Wallace India Trust Translator-Writer Fellow in 2017 for creative writing and translation, hosted by Literature Across Frontiers. An alumna of SOAS University of London, she has been a Research Fellow at Sara...
Mar 02, 2021•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast During his career spanning 38 years, Anil Swarup attempted to 'make it happen'. Before joining the IAS in 1981, he served the IPS for a year. He won Director's Gold Medal at the LBS National Academy of Administration amongst the officers of his batch. As a civil servant, he held various assignments within both the State (UP) and Central Govt. During the final years of his career, he served as Secretary in the Ministry of Coal where he handled the aftermath of the coal scam. Thereafter, he served...
Feb 26, 2021•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Damon Centola is a Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication, the School of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Network Dynamics Group and Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. His research addresses social networks and behavior change. His work has been published across several disciplines in journals such as Science , Proceedings of the National Academy of Scie...
Feb 26, 2021•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anisa Mirza is a software entrepreneur, passionate about the intersection of technology and social causes. A 2x founder, Mirza is a Y Combinator alum and named Forbes Top 30 Under 30 Social Innovators for 2016. She is the Founder and President of Tiny Broadway, the leading education platform for arts and theatre experiences. Her first company, Giveffect, is the all-in-one software for nonprofits across North America, processing over $24 Million in donations annually. As Founder, and former CEO o...
Feb 26, 2021•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Prateek Kanwal is a World Bank Scholar and did his Master in Public Policy (MPP) from the Harvard Kennedy School in United States. He did his undergraduate studies in Finance & Accounting from NMIMS, Mumbai. Over a period of last 10 years, he has worked across government, private and non-profit sector both nationally and internationally. This experience has allowed him to plan and execute key policies in the education sector. He is an international speaker and is inv...
Feb 10, 2021•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Christian Busch is the director of the Global Economy program at New York University's Center for Global Affairs, where he teaches on purpose-driven leadership, impact entrepreneurship, social innovation, and emerging markets. He is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the co-founder of Leaders on Purpose, an organization convening high-impact leaders, as well as the Sandbox Network, a global community of young innovators active in over 20 countries. Previously, he s...
Feb 10, 2021•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Abhay Kumar or Abhay K. (born 1980) is an Indian poet-diplomat and India's 21st Ambassador to Madagascar and Ambassador to Comoros. He has served in different diplomatic capacities earlier in Russia, Nepal and Brazil. His published collections of poetry include The Seduction of Delhi, The Eight-Eyed Lord of Kathmandu, The Prophecy of Brasilia, The Alphabets of Latin America among others, while his edited books are CAPITALS, 100 Gre...
Feb 03, 2021•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast you will learn - Unpacking the fin-tech ecosystem in India and the opportunities that exist Mental models for building effective products and teams Experience of founding and scaling a startup amidst a pandemic The Y Combinator experience and learnings from previous ventures An IIT-graduate with over 6 years of experience in Fintech, Rohit founded Decentro in his pursuit to help businesses reduce integration time by ~10X and capital expenditure by ~80%. Rohit...
Feb 03, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast you will learn - Mental models for building a career at the intersection of academia with entrepreneurship Lessons on grit and perseverance while working on a PhD. The importance of mentors in professional progression and the role of giving-back Experience of pursing a multidisciplinary PhD. and finding the ‘right’ supervisor. Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao ( https://www.elviscao.com/ ) is an honoree by three 30 under 30 lists including Forbes’ 30 under 30 in Energy. His Ph.D. thesis...
Feb 03, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast you learn - The impact of nationality and gender of communication styles. Mental models for ‘authentic’ communication The difference between ‘bragging’ and 'effective communication' Marie is a personal communication expert, author and TEDx speaker. She has been working at the intersection of communications and innovations for the past 10 years, with a career ranging from advertising to consulting and fashion. On a daily basis she helps managers and thought leaders tran...
Feb 03, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Manal is the co-founder and CEO of Eat Offbeat , a refugee-driven food company that delivers authentic meals conceived and prepared by refugees who now call New York City home. Manal moved to NYC to pursue a career in environmental affairs, but the Hummus she found on supermarket shelves led her on a different journey. She co-founded Eat Offbeat to help New Yorkers discover authentic cuisines from around the world all the while creating quality jobs. Eat Offbeat has since served over 250,000 mea...
Jan 28, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Marcus Ranney’s journey has led him from disease care, at the patient’s bed-side, to wellbeing, in some of the most extreme environments around the planet. Graduating from University College of London Medical School (UCL), his research has taken him to Mt. Everest, the Arctic Circle and the Alps. He has worked with fighter pilots whilst in the Royal Airforce and with astronauts whilst at NASA. Leaving the world of clinical medicine in 2010, his work now looks at the role of wellbeing in soci...
Jan 18, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rahul Rana is a venture builder and investor with specialties in finance and astrophysics. He works for Lux Capital , a $2.5bn deeptech venture capital firm. He is the author of Making Moonshots — a deep dive into the mindsets, philosophies, and strategies conducive to building moonshot companies. " Moonshot company " entails three things: taking an advanced science or deep technology and using it in a radical solution to solve a big problem in the world....
Jan 14, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lila Shroff is deeply interested in media innovation and is passionate about creating a healthier media ecosystem. Currently, Lila is on a gap year, working as a Research Analyst at Atelier Ventures and building Side Hustle Stack, before starting at Stanford University next fall. She is also spending her gap year as part of the initial cohort at Girlhood* (a new digital media organization by and for girls), working independently on a creative writing project, and was previously a fellow at Splic...
Jan 12, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ruha Shadab is a doctor turned public health professional turned social entrepreneur. She is the Founder of LedBy Foundation , a unique leadership incubator that works on improving equity in the workplace. She is a recent graduate from Harvard University, where she received her Master in Public Policy on a full tuition scholarship. On graduation, she was awarded the Harvard Kennedy School Women’s Leadership Award: the first Indian to receive it. During her Master’s, she served as the Co-Chair of...
Jan 07, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast This podcast covers - Exploring India: self-reliant, resilient, reignited Taking the 25 year old legacy forward and hosting the first virtual WIEF conference Learnings and reflections from 2020 and a virtual MBA programme Principles for curating a virtual experience and engineering serendipity Register now - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wharton-india-economic-forum-2021-virtual-conference-tickets-132689181915 Divya Kamerkar Divya Kamerkar is an Entrepreneurship and Innovation major at...
Dec 29, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast you learn - Combining data and curiosity to conduct micro-experiments The power of writing and clarity of thought The importance of cognitive diversity in hiring Advice for young professionals and students. Sri Rajan is a partner in Bain & Company's San Francisco office. Prior to this, he was the chairman and managing director of Bain’s India offices. He is an active contributor to the firm's Customer Strategy & Marketing, Private Equity, Advanced Man...
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Stephen is CEO and co-founder of Exponent. He is a product management thought leader who has presented at Google, WeWork, Stanford GSB, Duke, Yale and more. Previously, Stephen was a product manager at Google.
Dec 27, 2020•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Pritika Mehta is a Data Scientist turned entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of SockSoho. SockSoho is India's fastest growing fashion tech brand for millennial men. It was recently backed by Y Combinator in the US. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies in the US like Bank of America, Tripadvisor, etc. before starting SockSoho. Pritika holds a Masters in Artificial Intelligence from the State University of New York. In 2018, she was chosen on the advisory board of Queen Elizabeth’s Young...
Dec 27, 2020•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast There are over a billion Indians alive today. But are some Indians more Indian than others? To answer this question, one that is central to the identity of every man, woman, and child who belongs to the modern Republic of India, eminent thinker and bestselling writer Shashi Tharoor explores hotly contested ideas of nationalism, patriotism, citizenship, and belonging. In the course of his study, he explains what nationalism is, and can be, reveals who is anti-national, what patriotism actually me...
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