How often do entrepreneurs and corporate leaders think about issues like fairness, accessibility or unseen biases in the technologies they invent and advance? That’s the challenge for companies leading the digital transformation that’s disrupting every aspect of society, says Toni Townes-Whitley, Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector and Indust ... Show More
Nov 24
Eric Volmar (Stanford University) - A New Entrepreneurship Playbook
<p>Eric Volmar is teaching lead at the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford. His work focuses on connecting defense, academia, and entrepreneurship to accelerate innovation for national security, supporting new ventures at the intersection of technolog ... Show More
48m 43s
Nov 12
Jane Chen (Embrace Global) - Doing the Inner Work
<p>Jane Chen is the co-founder of Embrace Global, which created a low-cost infant warmer that has helped more than one million babies in low-resource settings. Her new book, <em>Like a Wave We Break: a Memoir of Falling Apart and Finding Myself</em>, tells the story of her globe- ... Show More
30m 48s
Oct 22
How Business Leaders Can Help Solve the World’s Toughest Problems
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, professor at Harvard Business School, believes the world demands a new kind of business leader. She says so-called “advanced leaders” work inside and outside their companies to tackle big issues such as climate change, public health, and social inequality. S ... Show More
23m 56s
Aug 13
Why Innovation Fails, and How to Fix It w/ Robyn Bolton
Why do so many innovation initiatives fall flat—even in successful companies? In this episode of the Strategy and Leadership Podcast, Anthony Taylor sits down with innovation expert Robyn Bolton to discuss what leaders get wrong about innovation, how to create the right condition ... Show More
16m 46s
Nov 2024
How Large Firms Can Get Innovation Right
MIT Sloan School of Management researchers Deborah Ancona and Kate Isaacs argue that big organizations can be nimble if they have three types of leaders in the mix: “entrepreneurial,” “enabling,” and “architecting.” In this episode, they explain how some large organizations conti ... Show More
27m 35s
Jun 2025
The AI Minded Path to Scalable and Responsible Innovation Across the Enterprise - with James Raybould of Turing Intelligence
<p>Enterprise leaders are no longer asking if they should adopt AI — the question is how to do it effectively. In this episode, Emerj Editorial Director Matthew DeMello speaks with James Raybould, SVP and GM of Turing Intelligence at Turing, about what distinguishes successful en ... Show More
31m 18s
Feb 2025
The Microsoft Mindset - How Innovation Fuels Success & Growth
Innovation Secrets from Inside Microsoft
If you're not innovating, your competition is. That’s the world we live in. Microsoft didn’t become one of the most dominant companies on the planet by accident—it built a culture of constant reinvention, adaptation, and innovation. And t ... Show More
1 h
May 2024
#206 The Venture Mindset with Ilya Strebulaev, Economist & Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business
In almost every industry, the rate of innovation is increasing, and this is great for consumers around the globe. However, with constant innovation and continual disruption of the status quo, where to innovate next becomes much harder to identify. If your industry hasn’t been dis ... Show More
1 h