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- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Paul Grana (MBA 2009) has always been a numbers guy. He was cracking video codes at 13, he was really into math in high school. And that attraction to numbers,... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “The solution doesn't necessarily come from the federal government or from Wal-Mart. The solution comes from lots of us deciding that we are going to do what it takes to solve... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes As a little kid, Rich Horgan (MBA 2018) doesn’t remember thinking much about the differences between himself and his younger brother, Terry. But as he started to get older,... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
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Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: There are about 130,000 words in Casey Gerald’s first book, There Will Be No Miracles Here, and each of those words was written by hand. It had to be that way,... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
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Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes WildChina founder Zhang Mei (MBA 1996) released her first book this year: Travels Through Dali with a Leg of Ham, a travelogue and recipe collection culled from the... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
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Well Said
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Anada Lakra (MBA 2021) left her native Albania to attend Yale, she had studied English for a decade and felt pretty confident in... View Details
- 04 May 2018
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How to Win the Kentucky Derby
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Terry Finley turns race horses into investment opportunities. As president and CEO of West Point Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs, New York, Finley buys promising colts... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 02 Dec 2016
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The Story Behind the Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) is a journalist and author of two New York Times best selling books. She was a political reporter and a TV producer in DC before coming to... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
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Mental Illness and the Workplace
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Katherine Switz (MBA 2000) is the founder of the Stability Network, which aims to ease the stigma of mental illness. They hope to achieve this by having professionals share... View Details
- 05 May 2023
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Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
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Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: In 2008, Jim Langford (MBA 1984) became the executive director of the Georgia Meth Project, a nonprofit that blanketed his native state with a graphic,... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Professor Ranjay Gulati, whose research looks at how the most resilient companies approach growth and profitability, chaired the Advanced Management Program at HBS for many... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Parsec Ventures CEO Richard Steel (OPM 45, 2014) has had a wide range of professional experiences, including everything from running... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
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We’re All Going to Get Hacked
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In November 2014, Sony Pictures suffered a massive, high-profile data breach, with hackers breaking in and stealing everything from confidential employee data to unreleased... View Details
- 31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: About a decade ago, Lindsay Ronga realized that she had developed an eating disorder. She was in the midst of applying to business schools and had started... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Jules Kortenhorst (MBA 1986) is CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a leading think tank focused on sustainability and energy use. It has become a go-to source of analysis... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
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Don’t Be Afraid of AI
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Terminator 3 clip: Warner Bros. Pictures © 2003. Dan Morrell: I think one of the biggest mainstream crossovers that artificial intelligence has had on the modern era is the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
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The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: The dark neon of late 70s and early 80s Miami has long been one of pop culture's favorite settings, from Miami Vice to Grand Theft Auto. Roben Farzad (MBA... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details