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  • Health Care is Every Company’s Business

    February 19, 2015 · 15 min

    Every company is in the health care business, no matter its industry. So says John Quelch, a professor at both the Harvard Business School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where Quelch has devoted an entire class to the…

  • You Don’t Know @Jack: Twitter’s Founder Talks Entrepreneurship

    February 12, 2015 · 15 min

    Twitter’s Founder, Jack Dorsey, talks about the history of Twitter, the founding of Square, and how he made the transition from programmer to CEO.

  • Man of the Year-Up: Creating Opportunity for Young Adults

    February 12, 2015 · 16 min

    Year-Up, a business taking low-income 18 to 24 year olds from poverty to a professional career, seems more relevant than ever with business professionals pushing to fill the middle skills gap. Listen to last year’s interview with 2014…

  • Philanthropy 2.0: Investing with a Purpose

    February 12, 2015 · 19 min

    HBS alumnus Sir Ronald Cohen, founder of Apax Partners and known as the father of venture capital in Great Britain, sits down with CMO Brian Kenny on The Business to talk about the importance of social impact investing, a new way to link…

  • Ernest Shackleton: The Entrepreneur of Survival

    February 12, 2015 · 28 min

    On the 100th Anniversary of explorer Ernest Shakleton’s colossal failure to traverse Antarctica, professor and historian Nancy Koehn explains how Shackleton’s extraordinary crisis leadership ensured the survival of his crew. Listen for…

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  • Not Your Basic Business Books

    February 12, 2015 · 9 min

    What books would guests on The Business give as holiday gifts? Listen for what Mitch Weiss, Dan Koh, Nancy Koehn, Max Bazerman, Frank Cespedes, and host Brian Kenny would recommend for the bookworm in your life.

  • The Men Behind the Mayors: How Business Can Impact Government

    February 12, 2015 · 16 min

    HBS Alumni Dan Koh (MBA 2011) and Senior Lecturer Mitch Weiss (MBA 2004) both served as Chief of Staff to the Mayors of Boston. Under the guidance of former Mayor Tom Menino and Mayor Marty Walsh, they learned to lead in the public sector…

  • Collective Genius

    February 12, 2015 · 11 min

    If you want to know what “collective genius” can look like, watch a Pixar film. Pixar Animation Studios produce the first computer generated (cg) feature film, “Toy Story,” nearly twenty years ago. More blockbusters followed, including…

  • The Revival of a Salesman: The Importance of Sales and Strategy to Business

    February 12, 2015 · 19 min

    Professor Frank Cespedes sits down to talk to Brian Kenny about his new book “Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling” and why sales and strategy are so important to business.

  • Investing for Real and Permanent Good

    February 12, 2015 · 13 min

    Carnegie Corporation co-Chief Investment Officers Kim Lew (MBA 1992) and Meredith Jenkins (MBA 1999) talk about investment with a mission, what it’s like to share a leadership role, and offer advice for women in the HBS class of 2014.

  • Can China Lead?

    February 12, 2015 · 22 min

    A little over 100 years ago, the Chinese empire fell. 2000 years of imperial tradition ended, virtually overnight. After a century of searching for its political and moral core, China is once again poised to become the dominant global…

  • Inside Bloomberg, Inc. with Chairman Peter Grauer

    February 12, 2015 · 15 min

    When former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg left Bloomberg, Inc. to take office, he handed the reins to Peter Grauer. Grauer talks with The Business about leadership, the anatomy of the company, maintaining its momentum, and how he met…

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About the show

The Business is a Harvard Business School podcast. Twice a month, host Brian Kenny will bring you a new take on the business world. Through unexpected stories, and conversations with business leaders, entrepreneurs and faculty members, our goal is to inspire listeners to think more broadly about the word business. Thanks for listening!