Oct 2023
Watts up with EV charging: An entrepreneur’s view from ground zero
Leye (Cornelius) Makanjuola, Oxford Saïd MBA and host discusses the EV charging market with Folasade Ayoola, a fellow student and entrepreneur. In this episode, Fola Ayoola delves into her experience co-building ElectricFish, a climate tech company building distributed energy sto ... Show More
32m 22s
May 2024
Peter Boghossian on Critical Thinking, Failing Universities, and Why Debate Matters
What happens when ideology replaces critical thinking across academia? Philosopher, author, and former professor Peter Boghossian witnessed this firsthand at Portland State University, and his school was not an anomaly. Known for his role in the “Grievance Studies Affair”, exposi ... Show More
1h 58m
Oct 2023
Student Choice with Tom Schimmer
<p>How can we keep students in the driver’s seat of their own learning? In this episode, we connect with Tom Schimmer, an education author, speaker, and consultant from Vancouver, Canada. Our host, Abril, speaks with Tom about leveraging student agency, assessment practices that ... Show More
27m 40s
Dec 2019
The Education Revolution: John Sanei and Alan Cohen (05.12.2019
Apple, Google, and Netflix don't require employees to have 4-year degrees, and this could soon become an industry norm… so then what are the world’s top companies looking for when it comes to education and are university degrees becoming obsolete? What are the skills that we need ... Show More
37m 59s
Nov 2024
Episode 136, 'A World Unmade' with Peter Hitchens (Part I - The Rage Against God)
<p>The Western world faces a tidal wave of secularisation, which shows no signs of receding. In the UK, Christian self-identification has plummeted – dropping, for example, from 72% in 2001 to 47% in 2021. The secularists argue that this trend reflects a shift towards an inclusiv ... Show More
37m 26s
Oct 2024
E102: Interview w/Kellogg School of Business Dean
Francesca Cornelli, Dean at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management sits down with David Weisburd to discuss how private equity firms handle CEO turnover, why private equity firms benefit from enlightened disagreement and diverse opinions, and the importance of men ... Show More
18m 16s
Jun 2023
John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Today I talked to John L. Rudolph about his book Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should) (Oxford UP, 2023).
Few people question the importance of science education in American schooling. The public readily accepts that it is the key to economic growth through innovation, develop ... Show More
36m 54s
Nov 2024
Episode 136, 'A World Unmade' with Peter Hitchens (Part II - A Revolution Betrayed)
<p>The Western world faces a tidal wave of secularisation, which shows no signs of receding. In the UK, Christian self-identification has plummeted – dropping, for example, from 72% in 2001 to 47% in 2021. The secularists argue that this trend reflects a shift towards an inclusiv ... Show More
32m 41s
Apr 2024
Peter Thiel on Political Theology
<p class="p1">In this conversation recorded live in Miami, Tyler and Peter Thiel dive deep into the complexities of political theology, including why it's a concept we still need today, why Peter's against Calvinism (and rationalism), whether the Old Testament should lead us to b ... Show More
1h 14m
How can an institution that is over 900 years old teach its students about the future? We speak to Peter Tufano, Dean of Oxford's Saïd Business School. Can an institution that is over 900 years old teach its students about the future? In this episode we speak to Peter Tufano, Dean of Saïd Business School about how Oxford achieves this, the societal challenge ... Show More
<p>Have you listened to the <a href="https://greatness.lnk.to/1707" target="_blank">FULL EPISODE yet?</a></p><p>"Optimistic people lived as much as 15 percent longer than pessimists... I got double benefit from being optimistic. I love life, I love every minute of it." - Peter Di ... Show More
