In this episode you will learn - 1. Principles of building communities by combining design, storytelling and empathy 2. The core purpose of architecture 3. Unpacking traditions and fusing with modern architectural constructs Priyamwada Singh, founder of common Ground practice, a New Delhi India based firm, believes that Architecture and Design are a medium to create an equitable society. Some of her well known projects in India include - Renew centre for IIT, Delhi, Ashoka University, Harappa Le...
May 13, 2022•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode you will learn - 1. Emotional, psychological and financial cost of being diagnosed with cancer 2. Principles of building a community of cancer survivors and caregivers 3. Processing suffering and becoming anti-fragile Samira is an entrepreneur working at the intersection of design, healthcare and technology. Using the power of human-centered design, she is tackling one of the most pressing problems of our generation - mental health, isolation and burnout. Together with a gr...
May 12, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast you will learn - 1. The art of meaningful career transitions. 2. How to become a dreamer and a doer. 3. Frameworks of ‘zooming in & zooming out’. 4. The importance of nurturing talent and empowering new leaders. 5. Insights on multi-generational leadership in managing work, home and society. Indra K. Nooyi served as CEO and chairman of PepsiCo from 2006 to 2019. Her prescient strategic thinking, insight into consumer behaviour and ...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast What do you do when you are rejected for your dream job and can’t deal with one more person telling you to be strong? What stops you from asking for that big role at work when you know you have a shot at getting it? For most of us, the world of work isn’t easy to navigate and life’s challenges rarely have simple answers. In this book, Radhika Gupta, the only female head of a major asset management company and creator of the viral YouTube video ‘The Girl with a Broken Neck’, offers straight-talki...
Apr 19, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sanjiv Saraf is the founder, Chairman and principal shareholder of Polyplex Corporation Limited, which is among the world’s largest producers of PET films. Sanjiv is an alumnus of The Scindia School and a graduate from IIT, Kharagpur (1980). After completing his graduation, he joined his family business in Orissa. In 1984, he ventured out on his own to establish Polyplex. Sanjiv has built an outstanding organization with exemplary values and ethos which are widely respected and admired in the in...
Apr 07, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Black-swan events, global warming, COVID-19 and a host of other natural and man-made disasters have tested the resilience of businesses across the world. Usually, blame for business failures is apportioned to external factors such as adverse business cycles, badly framed government regulations and lack of infrastructure. However, the causes often lie within -- short-term thinking, destruction of natural resources, exploitation of labour and poor management, to name a few. To outlast their compet...
Apr 03, 2022•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Mridula Ramesh is the founder of the Sundaram Climate Institute, which focuses on waste and water solutions and education. She is a leading cleantech angel investor, with a portfolio of over fifteen start-ups, and is involved in multiple initiatives to build climate entrepreneurship. The author of the critically acclaimed The Climate Solution: India’s Climate Change Crisis and What We Can Do About It , Mridula writes regularly on climate issues. She is involved in high...
Mar 22, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Key lessons: Fundamentals of building a decentralized, user-owned network Unbundling of work from employment and emerging trends in the future of work Bridging the talent-opportunity gap in the web 3.0 era Adam Jackson is the Co-founder of Braintrust, the first user-controlled talent network that provides enterprises with the highly skilled technical and design talent they need. Prior to founding Braintrust, Adam co-founded Doctor on Demand, the popular video telemedicine provider, w...
Mar 03, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast In Leadership to Last , Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna interview iconic leaders in India who have demonstrated leadership to last. There are leaders from South Asia and other emerging markets as well to illustrate that the ideas Indian entrepreneurs speak about are echoed by their counterparts in the Global South. All these magnates--Ratan Tata, Anu Aga, Adi Godrej, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Devi Shetty and Rahul Bajaj, to name a few--have built, to general acclaim and acknowledgement, organizations...
Feb 12, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Christian Busch is an internationally known expert in the areas of innovation, purpose-driven leadership, and serendipity. He is the director of the CGA Global Economy Programme at New York University (NYU), and also teaches at the London School of Economics (LSE). A cofounder of Leaders on Purpose and the Sandbox Network - and a former director of LSE's Innovation Lab - he has worked with senior executives and governments around the world. He is member of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Ex...
Jan 25, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ravi Venkatesan is a business leader, writer and social entrepreneur. He is the Chairman of the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) and UNICEF's Special Representative for Young People and Innovation. Ravi is also the founder of the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) and serves on the boards of Hitachi Ltd and Rockefeller Foundation. Ravi has served as the chairman of Microsoft India, Bank of Baroda and Cummins India. He has a B-Tech from IIT Bombay, an MS from Pur...
Jan 25, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Aarti and Aditya fell in love with water lily pops all the way back in school. This love for the snack followed them into college. The husband-and-wife team shared their ‘pop’ romance with their friends, classmates, and professors too. They’d pop ‘em at home and share the little goodies on campus. This was the start of it all. They were onto something… They started small. They kept it simple. Salted was the first flavor, but a lot more would follow. The aim was always to give people a wholesom...
Jan 25, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Neel Ghose is the founder of the the Robin Hood Army, (RHA) a volunteer organization which redistributes surplus food to the less fortunate. With a zero funds policy, the team has served meals to 83.9 million people across 255 cities through a family of Robins across the world - the RHA is now a Harvard case study. From a work front, Neel manages partnerships for Google Pay, he previously launched international markets and worked for Zomato from the seed stage. Neel has done his bachelors in Sh...
Jan 09, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Devi Lockwood is the Ideas editor at Rest of World and the author of 1,001 VOICES ON CLIMATE CHANGE, a book published by Simon & Schuster (Tiller Press) on August 24, 2021. Previously she worked as an editor and writer at the New York Times Opinion section. She spent five years traveling in 20 countries on six continents to document 1,001 stories on water & climate change. As a 2018 National Geographic Explorer, she photographed and recorded audio with ArtCirq, an Inuit Arctic performanc...
Jan 03, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Based in Los Angeles and a native of New York City, Kiran Gandhi, aka Madame Gandhi, is a singer, percussionist, activist and music industry thinker known for her electronic-based sound and fourth-wave feminist perspective. She began working under the stage name Madame Gandhi in 2015, while Alexia Riner — a Berklee College of Music graduate in sound design — became a key contributor to the project, providing electronic soundscapes and co-production. Currently, Gandhi is working on her three-part...
Jan 03, 2022•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast India’s maharajahs have traditionally been cast as petty despots, consumed by lust and luxury. Bejewelled parasites, they cared more, we are told, for elephants and palaces than for schools and public works. The British cheerfully circulated the idea that brown royalty needed ‘enlightened’ white hands to guide it, and by the twentieth century many Indians too bought into the stereotype, viewing princely India as packed with imperial stooges. Indeed, even today the princes are either remembered w...
Dec 23, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the jobs, desires, prayers, love affairs and rivalries--of a diverse group of women. Divided by class but united in fandom, they remain steadfast in their search for intimacy, independence and fun. Embracing Hindi film idol Shah Rukh Khan allows them a small respite from an oppressive culture, a fillip to their fantasies of a friendlier masculinity in Indian men. Most struggle to find the freedom-or inc...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Niel backs exceptional young entrepreneurs to find, buy & build enduring small to medium businesses globally as co-founder of Ambit Partners , a specialised Search Fund investor. He is a guest lecturer in Entrepreneurship-via-Acquisition at the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business, has worked and studied in South Africa, France, Singapore and the United Kingdom, and is a member of the Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. Niel earned his MBA wi...
Dec 10, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast, we cover - The art & science of designing for profitability Insights on scaling yourself through words Lessons in chasing personal passions for professional success This is Sahil - "It was 2011, and I was on top of the world. I was a 19-year-old solo founder with millions in the bank. At first, everything was great. We grew the team. We stayed focused on our product. Monthly revenues were climbing. But after four years, there was just one problem: our numbers wer...
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Pride, Prejudice, and Punditry brings together the very best fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from his published books and journalism—as well as many pieces that have been written specially for this volume. There are ten sections in the book, each devoted to a particular topic. ‘In the Company of Giants’ looks at some of the most important figures of modern Indian history; ‘Into the Maelstrom of Indian Politics’ contains work on the Indian political scene; ‘Our Unruly World’ covers international...
Nov 26, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Aditya Ghosh is a seasoned business leader with over 22 years of experience. Aditya currently sits on the Board of Directors of Fabindia - India’s largest retail platform; and OYO, one of the world’s leading hospitality chains with presence across 80 countries. Most recently, he was the CEO at OYO Hotels & Homes- India & South Asia. Prior to this, Aditya was the President & Member of the Board of IndiGo, for ten years and turned it into India’s largest & most profitable airline. ...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast This podcast covers - The art of meaningful career transitions. How to become a dreamer and a doer: Frameworks of ‘zooming in & zooming out’. The importance of nurturing talent and empowering new leaders. Insights on multi-generational leadership in managing work, home and society. Indra K. Nooyi served as CEO and chairman of PepsiCo from 2006 to 2019. Her prescient strategic thinking, insight into consumer behaviour and wisdom on managing a vast, global workforce ...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast This podcast covers - Insights from building a global company based out of india The impact of making hard-work as muscle memory Building your tribe of mentors and supporters Ms. Farzana Haque is the Global Head of Large Accounts SBU at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). TCS is a leading global information technology company with over US$12 Billion in revenues. TCS is India’s most valued company with the country’s highest market capitalisation. Forbes magazine voted TCS as the mos...
Sep 20, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast This podcast covers - How giving advice to others helps us more than it helps them The importance of setting ‘flexible’ goals. Forgetfulness and the art of avoiding everyday errors. Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, host of Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology, and the former president of the international Society for Judgment and Decision Making. She is the co-founder and co-director...
Aug 23, 2021•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast This podcast covers - Gen Z careers and the passion economy Bytedance’s quest to become “borderless as Google” TikTok product evolution and algorithm Chris Stokel-Walker is a British journalist whose work regularly appears in WIRED, The Economist and Insider. He is known for breaking major news about YouTube and TikTok and often reports on the site for television, radio and podcasts. His latest book, TikTok Boom , includes scores of interviews from the biggest names in front of a...
Aug 23, 2021•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mercedes’ path to VC is a true convergence of her life experiences — a childhood surrounded by inventors, studies at Harvard and Stanford, finance roles at the Federal Reserve and Goldman, and managing P&L at startups in VR and EdTech, and her long-term goal of empowering communities she cares about. She began her venture capital career at Owl Ventures before joining Lightspeed’s consumer investing team in 2019.
Jul 28, 2021•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Suneel Gupta is the author of the bestselling book "Backable". The book is rooted in Suneel’s journey from the "Face of Failure" for the New York Times to the "New Face of Innovation" for the New York Stock Exchange. Suneel is the founding CEO of RISE, which partnered with then first-Lady Michelle Obama to deliver low-cost healthcare services to people in need. Rise was named "App of the Year" by Apple and sold in a successful exist to One Medical (NASDAQ: ONEM). Suneel later ran for U.S. Congre...
Jun 14, 2021•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr Shashi Tharoor, a third-term Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, is the bestselling author of twenty-two books, both fiction and non-fiction, besides being a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for External Affairs in the Government of India. He has won numerous awards, including the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019, Dr. Tharo...
Jun 14, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jake is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pallet. Prior to this, we was an intern at Peloton. He is also a former Stanford wrestler. He is based in NYC.
May 05, 2021•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Suhani Jalota, from Mumbai, India, is pursuing a PhD in health policy at Stanford School of Medicine and an MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics and global health from Duke University, where she was a Baldwin Scholar and a Melissa & Doug Entrepreneurship fellow. She aspires to become a social health entrepreneur, creating self-sustaining health-related organizations managed entirely by the low income communities for which they exist...
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