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HBR IdeaCast

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

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What’s Your Interviewing Style?

12 Mar 2024
28m
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This podcast episode explores the challenges of job interviewing and provides insight into different approaches to improve interviewing skills. The guest, Anna Papalia, introduces the concept of Interview Styles and discusses four distinct styles: charmers, challengers, examiners, and harmonizers. Understanding these s...

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To Negotiate Better, Start with Yourself

05 Mar 2024
26m
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This podcast episode delves into the art of negotiation, emphasizing the importance of self-reflection, understanding one's true objectives, and cultivating a philosophy of possibility. It highlights the need for thorough preparation, effective communication, and the ability to build bridges in order to achieve constru...

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Rethinking Growth at All Costs

27 Feb 2024
28m
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This podcast episode focuses on growth strategies in investor-led capitalism. It discusses the challenges of rapid growth, emphasizing the importance of resource and capacity constraints, considering growth rate, direction, and method. The episode underscores the value of sustainable growth through consistent investmen...

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Companies Can Win by Reducing Overwork

20 Feb 2024
26m
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This podcast episode emphasizes the prevalence of workaholism and its detrimental effects on individuals, teams, and organizations. It underlines the importance of setting clear boundaries, prioritizing work-life balance, and creating a healthier work culture. The speakers highlight the role of leaders in fostering a p...

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When Should Companies Weigh in on Contentious Issues?

13 Feb 2024
29m
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This podcast episode delves into the evolving role of corporations in addressing societal issues, exploring the challenges and strategies for involving the entire workforce, and emphasizing the importance of employee voice and human rights principles.

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Stuck on a Problem? Try Switching Up Your Approach

06 Feb 2024
25m
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This podcast episode delves into various decision-making styles, their impact on decision-making processes and effectiveness in different scenarios, and the importance of adapting one's approach based on situational factors, team dynamics, and stakeholders' perspectives. It also explores the concept of self-awareness i...

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How to Reduce the Friction that Hurts You — and Harness the Friction that Helps

30 Jan 2024
29m
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This podcast episode explores the concept of friction in organizations and its impact on employees and customers. It emphasizes the importance of finding the right balance between good and bad friction to foster productivity and decision-making. The authors provide examples of how organizations can effectively manage f...

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What the New Freelance Economy Means for Your Talent Strategy

23 Jan 2024
30m
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This podcast episode discusses the changing landscape of talent acquisition and development, the rise of the gig economy and the digital transformation of talent acquisition, and the shift towards freelancing and its impact on the talent industry. It emphasizes the concept of Open Talent, which leverages the global wor...

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Making Peace with Your Midlife, Mid-career Self

16 Jan 2024
29m
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This podcast episode delves into the challenges and opportunities of midlife transitions, exploring themes such as identity shifts, embracing wisdom, reskilling for a changing workplace, and finding fulfillment through social connection and emotional intelligence. The speakers emphasize the importance of mindset shifts...

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Supercharge Your One-on-One Meetings

09 Jan 2024
30m
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This podcast emphasizes the significance of effective one-on-one meetings between managers and employees in fostering engagement, top talent retention, and managerial success. It highlights the need for organizations to invest in these meetings, provide training and feedback gathering systems, and maintain optimal cade...

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The Best Return-to-Office Policies Aren’t One-Size-Fits-All

02 Jan 2024
24m
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This podcast episode underlines the challenges faced by organizations as they navigate the transition of employees back to the office post-COVID. The focus lies on avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach, understanding employee expectations, and prioritizing flexibility and autonomy. The discussion delves into the pitfal...

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Best of IdeaCast: Behaviors of Successful CEOs

26 Dec 2023
27m
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This podcast episode challenges conventional notions of CEO effectiveness, highlighting that learned behaviors, rather than innate traits, determine success. It emphasizes the importance of behaviors like speed of decision-making, adaptability, competitiveness, and velocity for successful leadership. The episode also d...

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Why More Companies Are Getting in on the Resale Game

19 Dec 2023
25m
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This podcast episode dives into the burgeoning trend of product resale, propelled by technology, sustainability concerns, and Gen Z's values. Companies are recognizing the potential of resale, moving from ignoring it to embracing it, and realizing the benefits of authentication and profit. The fashion industry, in part...

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How Hybrid Work Is (And Isn’t) Reshaping Cities

12 Dec 2023
31m
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This podcast episode explores how the rise of remote work during the pandemic has led to the evolution of traditional metropolitan areas, including the emergence of "meta cities" connected through digital and physical flows of talent. It also highlights the impact of the remote work trend on locational strategies for c...

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Setting AI Projects Up for Success

05 Dec 2023
24m
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This podcast episode emphasizes the significance of careful planning, experimentation, and ethical considerations in AI project implementation. The discussion highlights the challenges and considerations involved in prioritizing and implementing AI projects, distinguishing between internal and external facing projects,...

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

30 Nov 2023
33m
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This podcast episode delves into various aspects of requesting a raise. It provides actionable advice on how to ask for a raise, including tips on timing, negotiation, and following up. It also addresses challenges faced by early career professionals and how to overcome them. Additionally, the episode explores strategi...

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

28 Nov 2023
30m
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This podcast episode highlights Ron Shaik's entrepreneurial journey and the key factors behind the success of Panera Bread under his leadership. It emphasizes the importance of understanding customer needs, identifying niche opportunities, and continuously adapting to changing market trends. The discussion explores the...

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Why Private Equity Needs to Invest More in Talent Development

21 Nov 2023
22m
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This podcast episode focuses on the challenges facing the private equity industry, such as rising interest rates, increased competition, and fewer deals. The key takeaway is that private equity firms need to invest in people and create a coherent culture across their portfolio companies in order to accelerate value cre...

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

14 Nov 2023
22m
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This podcast episode, featuring Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia, highlights the advancements in AI, particularly generative AI, emphasizing its potential impact across industries. Huang also discusses Nvidia's culture and leadership practices, driving innovation and agility within the company, and the chall...

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

07 Nov 2023
29m
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This podcast episode explores the concept of FOPO (fear of other people's opinions) and its impact on achieving mastery. It emphasizes the importance of focusing on one's own values, worth, and goals rather than worrying about external factors. The episode highlights the need to control and master what is within one's ...

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