Kathryn Judge, a finance professor at Columbia Law School, is troubled by the rise of intermediary platforms between products and services and the customers who eventually purchase them. Thanks to technology and globalization, she shows how the importance of “middlemen” in the value chain has increased, along with the length of global supply chains. Judge de ... Show More
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The Kinds of Humor That Help Leaders Build Trust
Leading an organization is a serious job, but Adam Christing argues that humor is a shortcut to building trust at an organization - and without it, you might be missing out on an important leadership tool. Christing is a comedian, speaker and author and he walks through five main ... Show More
30m 27s
Aug 19
How to Bring More Rigor to Your Long-Term Thinking
Amid great economic, political, and technological change, it can feel impossible to predict what might happen next. Nick Foster, a futurist and designer who has worked at Google X, Sony, and elsewhere, says that most of us struggle because we tend to fall into one pattern of thin ... Show More
32m 1s
Jul 2022
How middlemen took over the economy
Vox's Emily Stewart talks with Kathryn Judge, professor at Columbia Law School and author of the new book Direct: The Rise of Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source. They discuss how middlemen — which include real estate agents, stock brokers, but also Amazon and ... Show More
1h 6m
Jun 2021
Rapid Response: Fashioning a greener closet, w/Rent the Runway's Jenn Hyman
Fashion became secondary amid Covid lockdowns. Sweatpants-only life pressed apparel-subscription service Rent the Runway into layoffs and furloughs. But as co-founder and CEO Jenn Hyman explains, the business saw a surprising rebound early this year, fueled by new customers in un ... Show More
31m 32s
Oct 2023
Meaning over Math! How connection, empathy and authenticity are the keys to growth
Emmanuel Probst, global brand thought leader at Ipsos, adjunct professor at UCLA, Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of Brand Hacks on the art and science of brand transformation. His fascination in the quest for meaning is explored further in his latest book, ... Show More
41m 13s
May 2022
Is (De)globalization Ahead?
Amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict, COVID-19 lockdowns and associated supply chain disruptions, globalization is arguably facing its biggest test of the post-Cold War era. In this episode of Exchanges at Goldman Sachs, Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for Internation ... Show More
27m 53s
May 2019
Kimberly Clausing makes the case for open economies
Economist Kimberly Clausing tells Brendan Greeley and Mark Blyth why greater trade, capital flows and immigration are the solution to more equitably dividing the economic pie. It's the subject of her book, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capita ... Show More
44m 42s
Dec 2023
Nancy Tengler, CEO and CIO, Laffer Tengler Investments
It was once said that we are “the sum total of our experiences”. In the world of investing, this rings especially true. For Nancy Tengler, the CIO of Laffer Tengler Investments, a career in money management that has spanned more than 3 decades has presented real world challenges ... Show More
49m 31s
Sep 2021
Robert Hormats on the Art of Business and Diplomacy (Podcast)
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Tiedemann Advisors managing director Robert Hormats, whose decades of experience in international trade and investment have brought him to posts in Western Europe, China, India, Russia, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Pri ... Show More
1h 33m