Harvard Business IdeaCast (formerly HBR IdeaCast)

Featured Guest: Professor Linda A. Hill, Harvard Business School.

Featured Guest: Josh Bernoff, coauthor of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guest: Mark Gordon, coauthor of The Point of the Deal: How to Negotiate When Yes is Not Enough. Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guest: Rakesh Khurana, coauthor of the HBRGreen.org post "Should Managers Have a Green Hippocratic Oath?" Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guest: Tom Davenport, coauthor of the Harvard Business Review article "Reverse Engineering Google's Innovation Machine." Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guests: Stewart Friedman, author, "Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life"; Thomas A. Stewart, Editor, Harvard Business Review. Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guest: Boris Groysberg, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School. Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guest: Marshall Goldsmith, author of the "Ask the Coach" blog on HarvardBusiness.org. Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guest: Peter Cappelli, author of the March 2008 Harvard Business Review article "Talent Management for the Twenty-First Century." Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guests: Harvard Business School professors David Garvin and Amy Edmonson; Harvard Business Review editor Thomas A. Stewart. Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guest: John Elkington, Founder and Chief Entrepreneur of SustainAbility and author of The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets that Change the World. Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guest: Scott Anthony, author of the "Innovation Insights" blog at HarvardBusiness.org. Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guest: George Stalk, author of 5 Future Strategies You Need Right Now, a new book in the Harvard Business Press Memo to the CEO series. Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guests: Tammy Erickson, author of the "Across the Ages" blog on HarvardBusiness.org; Thomas A. Stewart, Editor, Harvard Business Review. Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guest: Steve Bishop, global lead of Design for Sustainability at IDEO. Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guest: Marshall Goldsmith, author of the "Ask the Coach" blog on HarvardBusiness.org and the book What Got You Here Won't Get You There. Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guest: John W. Boudreau, coauthor, Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital. Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guests: Thomas J. DeLong, Professor, Harvard Business School; Thomas A. Stewart, Editor, Harvard Business Review. Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guest: Kevin Coyne, coauthor of the Harvard Business Review article "Breakthrough Thinking from Inside the Box." Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guest: Bill Taylor, co-author of "Mavericks at Work" and writer of the "Game Changer" blog at Harvardbusiness.org. Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guest: Ron Ashkenas, managing partner of consulting firm Robert H. Schaffer & Associates and author of the December 2007 Harvard Business Review article "Simplicity-Minded Management." Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Featured Guest: Gill Corkindale, executive coach and author of the "Letter from London" blog on HarvardBusiness.org. Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

The Point of the Deal: Harvardbusiness.org's Paul Michelman talks with Danny Ertel, co-author of The Point of the Deal: How to Negotiate When Yes Is Not Enough. Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Rapid Transformation: Harvard Business Digital's Paul Michelman talks with Stanford University's Behnam Tabrizi, author of Rapid Transformation: A 90-Day Plan for Fast and Effective Change. Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

The CEO Within: Harvard Business Digital's Paul Michelman talks with Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Bower, author of The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning.   Â Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

The Leaders We Need: Harvard Business Online's Steve Singer talks with Michael Maccoby, the author of The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow. Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Chinese Cost Innovation: Harvard Business Onlineâs Steve Singer talks with Peter Williamson, co-author of Dragons at Your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation is Disrupting Global Competition.

Disclosing Climate Risk: Harvard Business Review's Christina Bortz talks with Alyson Slater, director of strategy for the Global Reporting Initiative, about how companies should disclose climate risk. Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Sustainable Innovation: Harvard Business Online's Steve Singer talks with Cheryl Perkins, President and Founder of Innovation Edge. Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Making Judgment Calls: Harvard Business Online's Paul Michelman talks with Noel Tichy, co-author of Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls. Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Customize Your Career: Harvard Business Online's Steve Singer talks with Cathleen Benko, co-author of Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace with Today's Nontraditional Workforce.   Â Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

How Women Become Leaders: Harvard Business Onlineâs Steve Singer talks with Alice Eagly, co-author of Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders.   Â Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

iPhone or iPhony? Harvard Business Onlineâs Steve Singer talks with Joe Pine, co-author of the upcoming book Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want, about Appleâs recent iPhone decisions.   Â Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

HBR IdeaCastâ 59: Redefining Global Strategy   Redefining Global Strategy: Harvard Business Online's Steve Singer talks with Pankaj Ghemawat, author of the upcoming book Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter.   Â Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

In this special edition of the HBR IdeaCast, we present an audio dramatization of a fictional Harvard Business Review case study, written by Joseph Finder, renowned author of corporate thrillers. In the case, a new CEO finds some unsavory secrets from her predecessor. The question is, what does she do about it?

Three Signs of a Miserable Job: Harvard Business Online's Paul Michelman talks with Patrick Lencioni, author of the new book The Three Signs of a Miserable Job.   Â Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Recruit or Die: Harvard Business Online's Paul Michelman talks with Chris Resto, co-author of the new book Recruit or Die: How Any Business Can Beat the Big Guys in the War for Young Talent.   Â Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

The New Science of Ideas: Harvard Business Onlineâs Paul Michelman talks with Richard Ogle, author of the new book Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity and the New Science of Ideas.   Â Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

HBR IdeaCastâ 55: The Marketing Mavens   The Marketing Mavens: Harvard Business Online producer Steve Singer talks with Noel Capon, author of the new book The Marketing Mavens.   Â Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed: Harvard Business School Press editor Jeff Kehoe talks with Deborah Ancona, co-author of the new book X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed.   Â Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Mid-Year Business Book Review: Harvard Business Review's John Landry talks with Steve Singer about some of the business books that have crossed his desk since the beginning of 2007.   HBR in Brief: And in our HBR in Brief segment, Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail.   Â Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Everything Is Miscellaneous: David Weinberger, a fellow at Harvard Law Schoolâs Berkman Center for the Internet & Society, discusses his new book, Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, with Harvard Business Onlineâs Steve Singer.   HBR in Brief: And in our HBR in Brief segment: Cracking the Code of Change.   Â Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Six Rules for Effective Forecasting: Harvard Business Review's Cathy Olofson talks with veteran Silicon Valley-based forecaster Paul Saffo about his article in the July-August 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review entitled "Six Rules for Effective Forecasting." HBR in Brief: And in our HBR in Brief segment, Managing Change: The Art of Balancing. Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

The Science of Human Capital: This week, Julie Devoll, of the Harvard Business School Press, talks with John Boudreau, author of Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital. HBR in Brief: And in our HBR in Brief segment: Reclaim Your Job. Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

What Makes Gen Xers Tick? This week, HBR IdeaCast host Paul Michelman sits down with Tammy Erickson, author of the Across the Ages column on Harvard Business Online, to discuss what drives Generation X, what they want from work, and how to get the most out of them.   HBR in Brief: And, in our HBR in Brief segment, Diamonds in the Data Mine.   Â Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Saving the Internet: This week, HBR Senior Editor Lew McCreary sits down with Jonathan Zittrain to discuss his Harvard Business Review article, âSaving the Internet,â a precursor to his forthcoming book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. There are many advantages to the Internetâs open design, says Zittrain, but along with them come flaws. These flaws, he says, will need to be fixed before people give up on the Internet altogether.   HBR in Brief: And, in our HBR in Brief ...more

The New Rules of Power: Harvard Business Online's Steve Singer interviews Alan Murray, author of the recently published Revolt in the Boardroom: The New Rules of Power in Corporate America. According to Murray, previously all-powerful CEOs must now earn the support of their boards, unions, NGOs, and the public, at times campaigning like politicians just to keep their jobs. HBR in Brief: And, in our HBR in Brief segment, How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight. Copyright 2007 Harvard Busines...more

Unleash Your Hidden Assets: HBS Press editor Melinda Merino is joined by Bain & Companyâs Chris Zook to discuss some of the ideas from his new book, Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth. In the near future, Zook says, the only way for the vast majority of companies to grow will be to redefine their core business. While this is no small challenge, Zookâs ideas will point you in the right direction.   HBR in Brief: And, in our HBR in Brief Se...more

What Holds Leaders Back: This week, Harvard Management Update Editor Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay sits down with Marshall Goldsmith, world-renowned coach to executive leaders and author of the recently published What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful. In our HBR IdeaCast interview, Goldsmith identifies some of the habits that hold leaders back and explains what they can do to change these self-limiting behaviors. And, in our HBR in Brief segment...more

Retaining Talented Women: This week, Harvard Business School Press Editor Melinda Merino catches up with Sylvia Ann Hewlett, author of Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success. As Hewlett explains, there are a number of practices and policies that companies can--and should--adopt to keep from permanently losing valuable female employees. HBR in Brief: And in our HBR in Brief segment, leadership that gets results.

Authentic Leadership: This week Harvard Business School's Jim Aisner talks with Bill George, Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the author of True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership, about how leaders who are true to themselves add significant value to their organizations. And, in our second segment, Beware the Busy Manager. Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Viral Marketing for the Real World: This week, HBR's Cathy Olofson sits down with Columbia University professor Duncan Watts to discuss his new article in the May 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review, "Viral Marketing for the Real World." Watts explains that while marketing messages may not exactly spread like disease, viral marketing, if used correctly, can be an extremely successful and cost-effective means for getting the word out. Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Preparing for a Pandemic: Dr. Leonard Marcus and Dr. Barry Dorn of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative discuss the looming threat of a pandemic flu and what businesses need to do to prepare for it. Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Hidden in Plain Sight: This week, Harvard Business School Press' Julie Devoll talks with Erich Joachimsthaler, founder and CEO of Vivaldi Partners and author of the new book Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Find and Execute Your Company's Next Big Growth Strategy. In the interview, Joachimsthaler shows us how to spot growth opportunities and jump on them before someone else does. Copyyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

The Upside: This week, Online Editorial Director Paul Michelman sits down with consultant and author Adrian Slywotzky, whose latest book is entitled The Upside: The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats into Growth Breakthroughs. In the interview, Slywotzky explains how managing strategic threats as forms of risk can not only diminish their impact, but also transform the threats into new growth opportunities. Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

What Your Leader Expects of You: This week, Online Editorial Director Paul Michelman talks with Larry Bossidy, former chairman and CEO of both AlliedSignal and Honeywell, and the author of an April 2007 HBR article entitled "What Your Leader Expects of You." In our interview, Bossidy will guide us through the key tenets of what he calls "the CEO compact," which comprises both the behaviors bosses should expect from their direct reports, and what direct reports should expect i...more

Five Minds for the Future: This week, IdeaCast Producer Steve Singer talks with Howard Gardner, author of the new Harvard Business School Press book Five Minds for the Future. We live in a time of vast changes, and those changes, says Gardner, call for entirely new ways of learning and thinking. In our HBR IdeaCast interview, Gardner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in the years ahead, and helps us understand how we can cultivate them. Copyright 2007 Harvard Business ...more

Getting Unstuck: This week, Julie Devoll, from Harvard Business School Press, talks with Tim Butler, author of the new book Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths. Butler, director of career development at Harvard Business School, discusses a phenomenon that he claims all of us experience at some point in our lives: "impasse"--that feeling of uncertainty about our next move in life. Butler helps us understand how we can manage through such challenges and move to a more meaning...more

What It Means to Work Here: This week, Harvard Business Review's Cathy Olofson talks with Tammy Erickson, co-author of the March HBR article, "What It Means to Work Here." Erickson contends that in competing for top-quality talent, every company needs to develop and nurture what she calls a "signature experience"--that is, something to help make the company stand out in the minds of current and prospective employees. We'll help you think about how to create and promote such a...more

Competing on Analytics: This week's program features an interview with Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris, co-authors of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning. In their talk with IdeaCast correspondent Angelia Herrin, Davenport and Harris explain how more and more leading companies are building their strategies around data-driven insights. The key to doing this successfully, they say, is analytics: a sophisticated approach to analysis and modeling supported by data-savvy senior leaders...more

Made to Stick: This week, IdeaCast producer Steve Singer is joined by Chip Heath, author of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. According to Heath, the ideas that make it--what he calls "sticky ideas"--share a series of common traits, which include both simplicity and unexpectedness. By crafting ideas and the way they are presented according to these and several other guidelines, Heath says leaders will increase their influence and their effectiveness. And he'll begin...more

The Rewards of Innovation: In our feature segment, Jim Andrew, co-author of Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation, takes a call from IdeaCast producer Steve Singer. Andrew helps us see through the cloudy thinking that often surrounds organizational innovation efforts, and gets us focused on what really matters: generating cash returns from new ideas. To elucidate the innovation-guiding principles that Andrew and his co-authors have developed, our segment today hones in on the current state ...more