Chicago GSB Podcast Series

Chicago GSB Podcast

Chicago GSB is known for its intellectual culture where world-changing ideas are born, debated, tested, refined and taught. This culture leads to broadening ways of thinking and understanding business and the world.

We have created the Chicago GSB Podcast Series to share thought leadership on current topics affecting companies and organizations around the globe. From our world-renowned faculty members to guest speakers who are leaders in their field, you'll be sure to hear ideas that are shaping the world of business.

Most Recent Episodes

Chicago GSB Podcast: CEOs Need Tougher, Not Softer Skills to Succeed

This broadcast features Steven Kaplan, Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, speaking at the 2008 Management Conference. He shares his research on how successful CEOs are efficient, proactive, and persistent.
Wed, 23 July 2008 00:00:00 CST

Chicago GSB Podcast: Is the Media Really Biased?

This broadcast features Jesse Shapiro, assistant professor of economics addressing a Becker Brown Bag Lunch for students. He shares his research into media bias and demonstrates that media demand is linked to broader economic forces.
Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 CST

Chicago GSB Podcast: Road to CEO with Bill McComb of Liz Claiborne Inc. and Andris Cukurs of Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation

This broadcast features two CEOs, Bill McComb, of Liz Claiborne Inc., and Andris Cukurs, Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation. Both are GSB alumni and were participating in the Charles M. Har per Road to CEO series. They shared their views and experiences with students in an informal fireside chat.
Wed, 16 Mar 2008 00:00:00 CST

Chicago GSB Podcast: Gururaj Deshpande on the Next Wave of Technology Innovations

This broadcast features Gururaj Deshpande, the billionaire chairman of Sycamore Networks, addressing the TechVision 2008 conference which looked at key issues and trends in high tech. Deshpande predicted technology innovation will focus on energy and life sciences.
Mon, 3 Mar 2008 00:00:00 CST

Chicago GSB Podcast: Gordon Crovitz on Changes Affecting the Media Industry

This broadcast features a Gordon Crovitz, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Crovitz looks at the question of “How Will Newspapers Survive?” and discusses how identifying and exploiting change can make old media new again. He highlights five change that can help newspapers.
Mon, 3 Mar 2008 00:00:00 CST

Chicago GSB Podcast: Daniel Esty on how CEO’s can turn "Green into Gold"

Daniel Esty, professor of environmental law and policy at Yale University, talks about how CEO’s can turn “Green into Gold”. His remarks focus the growing trend where businesses take environmental issues into account when developing their core strategy.
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 CST

Chicago GSB Podcast: Getting the Basics Right Is Key to McDonald’s Turnaround

Ralph Alvarez, president and COO of McDonalds, talks about strategy and why getting the basics right are important. As Alvarez discussed, "when you have a problem, you get permission to make radical changes."
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 CST

Chicago GSB Podcast: Brady Dougan on innovation in the IBanking industry

This broadcast features the CEO of Credit Suisse Group, Brady Dougan, AB ’81, MBA ’82. Dougan discusses innovation in an industry he feels “recreates itself every 20 years or so.”
Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 CST

Chicago GSB Podcast: Former CMO of Coca Cola on the Truth About Marketing

When it comes right down to it, marketing is about making money, said Sergio Zyman, chairman and founder of Zyman Group and former chief marketing officer of the Coca-Cola Company. “My philosophy of marketing is the philosophy of business, which is to sell more stuff to more people more often for more money more efficiently,” Zyman said in a keynote address at a conference hosted by student-led Chicago GSB Marketing Group October 15 at the Harper Center.
Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 CST

Chicago GSB Podcast: James Kilts: Creating a "Constant Turnaround Mentality"

This broadcast features James Kilts, MBA '74 and former CEO of Gillette. Kilts shares advice from his new book Doing What Matters: How to Get Results That Make a Difference – The Revolutionary Old-School Approach at Chicago GSB Global Leadership Series.
Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:00:00 CST

Chicago GSB Podcast: Debunking Myths About the New China

The rise of capitalism in China doesn't mean they're becoming more like the West says Tom Doctoroff, '89, CEO of J. Walter Thompson's Greater China division and author of "Billions". He discusses common mistakes corporations make when doing business in China.
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 CST

Chicago GSB Podcast: CEO Goalsetting

This broadcast features William McComb, '87, CEO of Liz Claiborne and Mary Ann Tolan, '92 (XP-61), founder and CEO of Accretive Health, moderated by Dean Edward Snyder. They discuss how to make goals specific and simple enough to enable the enterprise, teams and individual employees to implement them. The panel was part of the 55th Annual Management Conference.
Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 CST

Chicago GSB Podcast: Leader of the House of Lords on the Free Market

Despite fierce economic competition provided by such emerging countries as Pakistan and China, the developed world must resist the temptation to legislate economic security, according to Baroness Valerie Amos, leader of the House of Lords and lord president of the council of the United Kingdom.
Tue, 19 Jun 2007

Becker Brown Bag: How Productivity Benefits from Competition

There's nothing like a little competition to suddenly boost productivity. Competition forced miners to double the amount of iron ore they dug per hour, as told in one case study. In another, competition forced concrete companies to become more efficient or go under, said Chad Syverson, associate professor of economics at the University of Chicago and a productivity specialist. Syverson spoke to students and faculty at a Brown Bag lunch lecture hosted by The Becker Center of Chicago Price Theory and sponsored by Vishal Verma, '07 (XP-76), May 10 at the Charles M. Harper Center.
Wed, 13 Jun 2007

Former President of Mexico on "the Destructive Power of Government"

Former President of Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, took a historical look at the risks threatening globalization's resilience. Currently the director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Zedillo reminded attendees at the Myron Scholes Global Markets Forum Series of the "destructive power of government."
Fri, 01 Jun 2007

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