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Latest episode: Tue Nov 11 2025
3 Takeaways features insights from the world’s best thinkers, business leaders, writers, politicians, scientists and other newsmakers. Each episode ends with 3 key takeaways to help you understand the world in new ways that can benefit your life and career. Hosted by Lynn Thoman.
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Nov11The Surprising Science of Why Life Gets Better with Age with Stanford’s Laura Carstensen (#275)16mins
Nov4The Genetic Revolution Has Begun - George Church on What Comes Next (#274)15mins
Oct28Your Brain, For Sale: The Hidden Ways AI Can Manipulate You with Cass Sunstein (#273)23mins
Oct21What Putin Really Wants — with Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul (#272)19mins
Oct14Our Dollar, Your Problem: How U.S. Power Shapes — and Shakes — the World (#271)20mins
Oct7The Surprising Truth About Grief, Loss and Resilience (#270)15mins
Sep30AI Will Transform the World—But Who Decides How? (#269)14mins
Sep23Why 199 of 200 Projects Fail: The Iron Law That Dooms Even the Smartest Ideas (#268)18mins
Sep16David Brooks: Why America’s Decline Story Is 75% Bonkers (#267)21mins
Sep93 Habits That Separate Great Communicators from Everyone Else (#266)19mins
Sep2America’s Edge: More Barriers or More Innovation? (#265)20mins
Aug26Space: The Invisible Infrastructure Behind Modern Life — And Its Growing Risks (#264)20mins
Aug19Inside the Hook Model: Secrets Companies Use to Keep You Scrolling and How To Break Free (#263)17mins
Aug12Zanny Minton Beddoes on America, China, and a World in Flux (#262)20mins
Aug5No Way Out with Former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Greg Mankiw (#261)15mins
Jul29From Bits to Brains: How AI Sees, Talks, and Learns (#260)18mins
Jul22Hype vs. Reality: Crypto and Stablecoins (#259)16mins
Jul15The Long Game: How to Build Wealth in Turbulent Times with Blackstone President Jon Gray (#258)19mins
Jul8Goodbye Baby Boom—Hello Population Bust: How a 60% Drop Could Change Everything (#257)15mins
Jul1The Knowledge Illusion: How Overconfidence Shapes Our Lives (#256)17mins
Jun24The Surprising Science Behind Falling—and Staying—in Love (#255)14mins
Jun17Former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on What Xi and Putin Are Really Like Behind Closed Doors (#254)32mins
Jun10Editing Life Itself: A Conversation with David Liu, the Scientist Who’s Rewriting DNA and the Future (#253)22mins
Jun3This Is Your Brain on Beauty — And It's Powerful (#252)16mins
May27Why America’s Poorest State Is Richer Than France (#251)18mins
May20The U.S. Alone Can’t Compete with China. Here’s What Absolutely Can. (#250)21mins
May13The 50% Enigma: Why Trump’s Vote Mirrors the Past (#249)15mins
May6Swipe, Tap, Ghost: The New Rules of Human Connection (#248)20mins
Apr29Your Brain’s Being Hijacked: The Hidden Psychology Behind Everyday Decisions (#247)16mins
Apr22How Your DNA Interacts With the World Around You (#246)17mins
Apr15Don’t Believe the Doom: American Workers Are Moving Up (#245)16mins
Apr8Why China Builds High Speed Rail - And The U.S. Can’t Build A Tunnel (#244)15mins
Apr1We Can’t Stop the Wildfires—But We Can Stop the Disaster (#243)12mins
Mar25The Hidden Pattern in Fires, Earthquakes, Stock Market Crashes, and Even Wars (#242)17mins
Mar18NBCUniversal Vice Chair Bonnie Hammer on AI Celebrities, Interactive TV & the Future of Content (#241)23mins
Mar11Why Bad Cops Stay and Schools Fail (#240)24mins
Mar4How to Not be Manipulated: A Clever, Crafty PR Exec Reveals Tricks of His Trade (#239)21mins
Feb25The Power of Leaderless Organizations: How Decentralized Groups are Changing the World (#238)16mins
Feb18Whole Foods CEO on The Future of Food: More Than Taste (#237)20mins
Feb11NBCUniversal Vice Chair Bonnie Hammer: Life Lessons for Getting Ahead (#236)23mins
Feb4The CIA’s Secrets: Spy Missions, Cyber Wars & Covert Operations (#235)23mins
Jan28Former Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz: Tackling Global Warming and Energy Solutions (#234)26mins
Jan21Former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO James Stavridis Does Not Mince Words (#233)27mins
Jan14Top Takeaways of 2024 (#232)26mins
Jan7AI: How It’s Being Used Now, What’s Next, and What’s After That (#231)23mins
Dec31The Science and Skill of Superforecasting (#230)20mins
Dec24The Search for Another Earth (#229)18mins
Dec17A Blueprint for Reimagining Our Cities (#228)24mins
Dec10Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea (#227)24mins
Dec3Secrets of a Wildly Successful TV Writer (#226)19mins
Nov23Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on AI: Shaping the Next Era of Humanity (#225)38mins
Nov19200 Billion Animals Are Killed for Food Each Year (#224)20mins
Nov12I’m a Doctor. ChatGPT’s Bedside Manner Is Better Than Mine. (#223)19mins
Nov5Loonshots: How Lunatic, Moonshot Ideas Become Real and Change the World (#222)25mins
Oct29Blunt Wisdom From the World’s Top Executive Coach (#221)23mins
Oct22Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Speaks His Piece (#220)25mins
Oct15Secrets of Legendary Investor Howard Marks (#219)21mins
Oct8What’s Ailing Capitalism, and How to Heal It (#218)19mins
Oct1AI and Healthcare: A Dose of Good News (#217)20mins
Sep24Highlight on Politics: 5 of the World’s Sharpest Minds in Politics (#216)20mins
Sep17Chew on This: The Founder of Whole Foods Is Bananas for Capitalism (#215)19mins
Sep10Former Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross on Investing, Entrepreneurship, and Trump (#214)23mins
Sep3Norway’s Former Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs: Are Chaos and Upheaval the New Norm? (#213)22mins
Aug30Former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet: Leading with Integrity, Truth, and Empathy (#212)18mins
Aug20Highlight on Law & Justice: Six Experts Share Powerful Ideas on Crime and Punishment (#211)21mins
Aug13Close Calls: The Terrifying Threat of Nuclear War (#210)23mins
Aug6Fareed Zakaria Makes Sense of a Crazy World (#209)28mins
Jul30Vietnam: From Great Foe to Great Friend (#208)17mins
Jul23What Einstein and Brie Larson Have in Common (#207)20mins
Jul16Hear, Here. A Fresh Take on the News Media’s Flawed Coverage of Joe Biden with a Former NY Times Executive Editor (#206)19mins
Jul9A Former Prime Minister of Israel Speaks Bluntly (#205)25mins
Jul2How AI is Rewiring and Rotting our Brains (#204)23mins
Jun25Highlight on Education: A Specially Curated Episode (#203)23mins
Jun18Bird Flu is a Real Concern. Learn the Facts with Former National Security Council Director for Medical and Biodefense Preparedness (#202)22mins
Jun11Learn How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection with Charles Duhigg (#201)16mins
Jun4It’s Time We Take A Good, Hard Look At War (#200)24mins
May28Are America and the West Really In Decline with Niall Ferguson (#199)27mins
May21Kara Swisher Holds Back Nothing - on Bezos, Zuckerberg, Cook, etc. (#198)16mins
May14Cass Sunstein Reveals How to Become Famous: lost Beatles, lost Steve Jobs, lost Mona Lisas, lost Tom Bradys and other missed superstars (#197)24mins
May7A Bold, Fresh, Stunning Look At The U.S. Constitution (#196)19mins
Apr30Former Oxford University Head and Terrorism Expert - Finally, A Knowing, Clear-Eyed Look At Terrorism (#195)25mins
Apr23How Taylor Swift, Barbie and Louis Vuitton Redefined Movies, Music, Art and Fashion: the Billion-Dollar Marketing Era (#194)25mins
Apr16The Keys To Ending Conflict, From A Negotiator Who Knows (#193)21mins
Apr9An Other-Worldly Talk About Other Worlds With The Chillest Astrophysicist Alive (#192)18mins
Apr2Why Do We Keep Getting Walloped By Black Swan Events? Is The World On The Edge Of Chaos? Tune In. (#191)22mins
Mar26The Battle for Your Brain: The Emerging World of Neurotechnology, Brain Hacking and Thought Control (#190)22mins
Mar19Climate Future: What We Know and Don’t Know About Our Future (#189)30mins
Mar12Liespotting — An Expert Reveals How To Know When You’re Being Deceived. Honestly. (#188)18mins
Mar5AI That’s More Powerful Than Humans Is Coming. How Will We Be Able To Control It? (#187)21mins
Feb27Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There (#186)23mins
Feb20These Times Demand This Fascinating Look At How Abraham Lincoln Kept America One Country (#185)22mins
Feb13Starbucks Board Chair Mellody Hobson’s Life Sounds Like Fiction, But It’s Fact. Here, She Discusses Her Success (#184)25mins
Feb6Taste What You're Missing: Surprising Stories and Science Why Food Tastes Good (#183)22mins
Jan30The One And Only Dr. Atul Gawande In An Eye-Opening, Wide-Ranging Talk About Global Health (#182)22mins
Jan23Top Takeaways of 2023 (#181)20mins
Jan16An Eye-Opening, Cautionary Look At The Problematic Clout Of A Few Giant Index Funds (#180)22mins
Jan9The CEO of U.S. News & World Report On Why Today’s Most Critical News Story May Be The News Media Itself (#179)18mins
Jan2Made New Year’s Resolutions? An Expert Shares Scientific Strategies To Achieve Lasting Change (#178)20mins
Dec26Top Dog: An Expert On The Science Of Winning Shares Powerful Tips And Strategies To Improve Performance (#177)22mins
Dec19A Legal Reform Expert Discusses The Horrors Of Our Criminal Justice System And How To Improve It (#176)20mins
Dec12How Will Dramatically Declining Birth Rates Reshape Our World? A Population Expert Weighs In. (#175)19mins
Dec5Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar Details Previously Unknown Reasons For The Stunning Success of Operation Warp Speed (#174)43mins
Nov28At A Time Of Great Global Volatility, The U.S. Economy Is Far Outperforming All The Other Major Countries. Listen And Learn Why. (#173)19mins
Nov21An Expert On Higher Education Talks About Critical Skills Not Being Taught At Universities (#172)21mins
Nov14A Former Israeli Foreign Minister Discusses The War With Hamas And What It May, And May Not, Achieve (#171)19mins
Nov7Chevron CEO, Mike Wirth, On The Race To Meet The World’s Energy Needs With Lower Carbon Solutions (#170)23mins
Oct31A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, And Have We Really Thought This Through? (#169)18mins
Oct24Karl Rove Takes A Riveting, No-Holds Barred Look At The Frightening State Of American Politics (#168)24mins
Oct17What’s Really Happening Along Our Mexican Border, From A Plain-Spoken Texas Congressman (#167)19mins
Oct10Former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia On Why Both the US and China Are Guilty Of False Narratives About The Other (#166)16mins
Oct3President of Rockefeller Foundation and Former Head of USAID Raj Shah on Big Bets and Transforming The Face of Human Poverty On The Planet (#165)22mins
Sep26Why The Use Of Group Identity To Pursue Social Justice May Fail To Achieve Its Noble Goals (#164)18mins
Sep19How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die (#163)22mins
Sep12A World-Leading Tech Analyst Shares His Insights on AI, Job Creation, Chinese EVs, Crypto, and More (#162)20mins
Sep5The Science of Failure – Right Kind of Wrong with Harvard Business School’s Amy Edmondson (#161)19mins
Aug29The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business: Setting the Table with Union Square Hospitality Group Founder & Chairman Danny Meyer - repost (#160)22mins
Aug22A Top National Security Expert Explores The Critical Role Cybersecurity Plays In America’s Security (#159)20mins
Aug15Learn The Latest Findings On How Working Remotely Effects Productivity, Hiring, Real Estate, And More (#158)20mins
Aug8The Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Our Critical Need To See “The Other Side of The Story” (#157)17mins
Aug1Yale Professor Zoe Chance Reveals Smart, Simple Ways To Influence People To Get What You Want (#156)23mins
Jul25How An Innovative, Global Vaccine Alliance Accomplished What No Other Organization Could (#155)21mins
Jul18Livewired: Creating New Senses for Humans (#154)18mins
Jul11Learning from the Best: A Nobel Laureate's Journey to Understand the Secrets of School Quality (#153)16mins
Jul4Former Ford and Boeing CEO Alan Mulally On Love By Design, The Secret Behind Two Remarkable Turnarounds (#152)49mins
Jun27War In The Age of AI. A Chilling, Mind-Blowing Talk With A Former Pentagon Defense Expert (#151)18mins
Jun20Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked (#150)19mins
Jun13Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (#149)19mins
Jun6Hear, Here: The President and CEO of NY’s Metropolitan Museum On Its Critical Role In Modern Life (#148)25mins
May30Learn Why A Nobel Prize Winning Economist Says Extreme Global Poverty Is “Entirely Solvable” (#147)19mins
May23Turnaround Time: The Remarkable Warmth and Wisdom of Former United Airlines CEO, Oscar Munoz (#146)19mins
May16Now Hear This: Non-Humans Communicate Highly Complex Information Through Sound (#145)20mins
May9New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy Reveals Why It’s Useful To Sometimes Get Your Teeth Kicked In (#144)19mins
May2Magic Words: Cutting-Edge Revelations on Language That Can Dramatically Increase Your Impact (#143)21mins
Apr25Airbnb Global Head of Hosting on Travel and Work, What Some Of The Most Fabulous Airbnbs Are, And Curiosity As A Core Value (#142)22mins
Apr18Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People). Get Invaluable Insights and Practical Tips from Harvard Business Review Contributing Editor (#141)25mins
Apr11The Man Who Led the Creation of Moderna’s Covid Vaccine Shares His Powerful Insight and Vision: Tal Zaks (#140)20mins
Apr4The Lords of Easy Money: How the Fed Broke the American Economy, and the Inevitable Pain Ahead (#139)20mins
Mar28A Former OSHA Head Exposes the Science of Deception That Allows Dangerous Chemicals To Go Unregulated (#138)20mins
Mar21A Noted MIT Dean on the Age of AI and the Rapidly Evolving Relationship Between AI and Humans (#137)19mins
Mar14Blackstone Vice Chairman Byron Wien's Eye-Opening Surprises for 2023 Plus Invaluable Life Wisdom (#136)21mins
Mar7The Battle for Your Brain: The Emerging World of Neurotechnology, Brain Hacking and Thought Control (#135)22mins
Feb28Belonging: How To Combat The Serious Isolation That’s Wreaking Havoc on Our Health and Happiness (#134)19mins
Feb21These Times Demand a Clear-Eyed Look at Threats to America. Stanford’s Frank Fukuyama Provides It. (#133)27mins
Feb14Former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Alan Blinder on Cryptocurrencies, Soft Landings and What's Really Happening with the US Economy Now. (#132)21mins
Feb7Liespotting — An Expert Reveals How To Know When You’re Being Deceived. Honestly. (#131)18mins
Jan31Classified: The Complex and Bizarre World of Government-Imposed Racial Classification. Listen, and Learn. (#130)21mins
Jan24General David Petraeus Continues His Brilliant Analysis of the Ukraine War — Plus China, Cyber and Other Threats (#129)23mins
Jan17Former CIA Director David Petraeus Provides His Expert, Riveting Take on the Russia Ukraine War (#128)21mins
Jan10The Good Life Unpacked: Discovering What Makes Us Thrive with the Heads of Harvard's 80-Year Study (#127)22mins
Jan3How to Change: An Expert on the Science of Personal Change Reveals Proven, Powerful Strategies (#126)37mins
Dec27Which are the 10 Most Powerful and Compelling Takeaways of 2022? Listen and Find Out. (#125)14mins
Dec20Former Senator Phil Gramm Explodes the Myth of American Inequality in an Eye-Opening Conversation (#124)35mins
Dec13The U.S. and the Holocaust: What did America Know and Do During the Greatest Atrocity of Our Time with Ken Burns' Co-Directors (#123)20mins
Dec6Superabundance: Separating Fact From Myth About Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet (#122)19mins
Nov29Chip War: the Fight for the World's Most Vital Technology and the Staggering Vulnerability of the U.S. (#121)17mins
Nov22How Worried Should We Be About Dysfunctional Government? A Gifted Constitutional Expert Weighs In (#120)25mins
Nov15Why the Lies We Tell in Public Are So Destructive with Duke's Timur Kuran (#119)24mins
Nov8Complicit: When Good People Turn a Blind Eye to Rape, Thievery, and Fraud. With Harvard’s Max Bazerman (#118)27mins
Nov1A Mind-Blowing Look at How Our Brains Create Our Reality. With Renowned Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett (#117)18mins
Oct25What Does the Work of The Future Look Like? With MIT Professor David Autor (#116)21mins
Oct18The Person You Mean To Be and A More Just Future with Social Scientist Dolly Chugh (#115)26mins
Oct11Is This Time Different? Eight Centuries of Financial Folly with Famed Economist Ken Rogoff (#114)22mins
Oct4Why Having Too Little Makes People Perform Worse and Become More Impatient, Impulsive and Careless: Princeton Behavioral Scientist Eldar Shafir (repost) (#113)29mins
Sep27Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow: The Value of a College Education and Investing in the Future (repost) (#112)23mins
Sep20Harvard Business School’s Bill Sahlman: What I’ve Learned Reading 10,000 Business Plans and Investing in Hundreds of Startups (repost) (#111)28mins
Sep13When Women Lead: A Groundbreaking Look at Bias, Leadership and the Future of Work with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin (#110)23mins
Sep6The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society with Tech Seer Azeem Azhar (#109)20mins
Aug30Explore Grand Mysteries of Space, Time, Life, and the Cosmos – With World-Renowned Physicist Brian Greene (#108)28mins
Aug23Climate Future: What We Know and Don’t Know with MIT’s Robert Pindyck (#107)30mins
Aug16Ask For More: 2 Questions to Negotiate Almost Anything with Columbia Law School Mediation Clinic Director Alex Carter (#106)35mins
Aug9Former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler: Our Loss of Privacy Is Worse Than You Think, No Matter What You Think (#105)21mins
Aug2The Leadership These Times Demand – with Vik Malhotra, McKinsey’s Chairman of the Americas (#104)26mins
Jul26Unconscious Bias is Real, So Are the Solutions: Harvard Kennedy School Former Academic Dean Iris Bohnet (repost) (#103)31mins
Jul19Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: Education Runs on Lies (repost) (#102)28mins
Jul12When Willpower Isn’t Enough: Psychologist Wendy Wood Reveals Keys to Success (#101)23mins
Jul5The Age of DNA: Ginkgo Bioworks Co-Founder Jason Kelly (#100)20mins
Jun28Why We Laugh: The Many Shapes and Forms of Laughter with Neuroscientist Sophie Scott (#99)19mins
Jun21Princeton’s Endowment Manager Andy Golden on Investing Today (#98)30mins
Jun14How We Can Defeat The Next Pandemic and The Future of Medicine: Dr. Eric Topol (#97)21mins
Jun7Presidential Advisor David Gergen: Democracy in Peril and New Leadership (#96)34mins
May31Former Australian Prime Minister and China Scholar Kevin Rudd: War Between China and the US (#95)26mins
May24The Revenge of Power: How Power is Shifting in the 21st Century with Moises Naim (#94)28mins
May17From Hawk to Dove, Negotiating Peace after War: Former Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos (#93)31mins
May10Business Revolution: Tech, Talent, Purpose with Fortune Media CEO Alan Murray (#92)30mins
May3World Famous Architect Robert A.M. Stern on Architecture and Design: What Makes His Buildings Special? (#91)29mins
Apr26Justice, Punishment and Forgiveness: When Should Law Forgive? (#90)29mins
Apr19An Urgent Warning on the Times Ahead with the Founder of the World's Largest Hedge Fund: Ray Dalio (#89)26mins
Apr12A British Minister on Why Being a Politician Is the Worst Job Imaginable, Brexit and a View of the US and the World: Rory Stewart (#88)32mins
Apr5Political Commentator George Will: Insights on American Government Today, and Where the Democratic and Republican Parties Have Both Gone Wrong (#87)35mins
Mar29Reporting from War Zones with CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward: How What's Reported Differs From the Situation On the Ground (#86)34mins
Mar22The Secret Life of Words - What Our Words Say About Us and What We Can Learn From Others Words: Dr. Jamie Pennebaker (#85)29mins
Mar15David Novak, Former CEO OF Yum! Brands on Motivating a Work Force, Staying Humble and Taking Charge of Your Career (#84)34mins
Mar8Former MI6 Chief Sir Alex Younger: Putin's Miscalculations Invading Ukraine, Why Putin May Become More Desperate and Dangerous, Realities of a Spy and the Importance of Trust and Alliances (#83)40mins
Mar1Growing Alibaba into the World's Largest Online Commerce Company with 1 BN Customers: Alibaba Group President Michael Evans (#82)35mins
Feb22Former CEO of New York Federal Reserve Bank Bill Dudley on Inflation and Fiscal Recovery in the US, Regulating Cryptocurrencies and Why Current Fed Policies Benefit the Rich and Not the Poor (#81)21mins
Feb15ClassPass Founder Payal Kadakia on Building ClassPass into a Billion Dollar Company, Living a Plan A Life and Achieving Your Potential (#80)27mins
Feb8Why Platform Companies (Facebook, Amazon, Airbnb and Uber) Are the Opposite of Traditional Companies, Why They Become So Enormous, and How They Can Be Effectively Regulated: Marshall Van Alstyne (repost) (#79)27mins
Feb1The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Head of Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab Hod Lipson (repost) (#78)37mins
Jan25Is Tribalism Always Bad? How Group Identity or Tribalism Has Taken Over our Political System with Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua (repost) (#77)23mins
Jan18Free World Class Education to Anyone Anywhere: Building the World’s Largest Online Learning Platform with Khan Academy Founder & CEO Sal Khan (repost) (#76)26mins
Jan11The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business: Setting the Table with Union Square Hospitality Group Founder & CEO Danny Meyer (#75)32mins
Jan4Always Be Learning: The Top 10 Takeaways of 2021 From Our Guests (#74)9mins
Dec28Achieving Your New Year's Resolutions: The Science of Getting To Where You Want To Be with Best-Selling Author Katy Milkman (repost) (#73)37mins
Dec21Harvard Professor, Robert Waldinger: What the Good Life Actually Looks Like Based on Harvard’s 75 Year Study (repost) (#72)18mins
Dec14Harvard Business Review Editor in Chief Adi Ignatius: The New World of Work and the Biggest Trends in Business (#71)24mins
Dec7Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow: The Value of a College Education, Investing in the Future and Free Speech (#70)23mins
Nov30Army General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal: "The Greatest Risk Is Us" - So What is the Solution? (#69)30mins
Nov23World Renowned Thinker and Harvard Professor Steven Pinker: Human Action Can Improve the World (#68)15mins
Nov16NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum: On the Future of Sports, Sports as Entertainment, Enhancing the Audience Experience and How the NBA Engages over 2 Billion People (#67)29mins
Nov9Start with Understanding: Change People's Minds Under Impossible Conditions with Best Selling Author and Wharton School Professor Jonah Berger (#66)31mins
Nov2Creating the Life You Want (Before It's Too Late): Former President of Hearst Magazines Michael Clinton (#65)24mins
Oct26How to Build an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time: Square Co-Founder Jim McKelvey (#64)31mins
Oct19Building the Largest Asset Management Firm in the World: Co-Founder & Former Vice Chairman of BlackRock Barbara Novick (#63)27mins
Oct12Live A Better, Happier Post Pandemic Life: The 3 Macronutrients of Happiness with Harvard Professor Arthur Brooks (#62)34mins
Oct5An Insider’s Perspective on Venture Capital: Sierra Ventures Founder and Advisor Peter Wendell (#61)34mins
Sep28How Courageous Companies Thrive by Improving the Lives of Everyone They Touch with Former Unilever CEO Paul Polman (#60)33mins
Sep20Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic: Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb (#59)24mins
Sep14Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America: Former NYC and LA Police Commissioner Bill Bratton (#58)24mins
Sep7Cryptocurrencies, Digital Assets, NFTs and the Future of Blockchain, Including Even for Social Good: Galaxy Digital Founder and CEO Mike Novogratz (#57)43mins
Aug31“The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.” Seeing the “Water” - A Different View of The World: Gillian Tett (#56)34mins
Aug24Solving the World's Biggest Problem and Creating the Impossible Burger with Impossible Foods Founder Patrick Brown (#55)32mins
Aug17The Latest Findings in Behavioral Science and How They Can Make Your Life Better: Harvard Professor & Nudge Co-Author Cass Sunstein (#54)32mins
Aug10Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper: The Greatest Threat Facing the World Right Now and Individual Rights to Privacy (#53)23mins
Aug3The Secret to Outstanding Achievement: Character Lab Founder and CEO Angela Duckworth (#52)25mins
Jul27General Catalyst Chairman and Former American Express Chairman & CEO Ken Chenault: Leadership, Race & Creating Diverse Workforces (#51)34mins
Jul20Risk vs. Opportunity in the Market: Investing the Assets of Michael Bloomberg with Steve Rattner (#50)31mins
Jul13Unconscious Bias: What Works To De-Bias How We Live, Learn and Work with Harvard Kennedy School's Academic Dean Iris Bohnet (#49)31mins
Jul6Designing the Future With Materials That Sense, Adapt, Heal & Grow: Founder of MIT's Self-Assembly Lab Skylar Tibbits (#48)34mins
Jun29None Of Us Are Too Small To Make A Difference: Humanitarian & Author Of I Am A Girl From Africa Elizabeth Nyamayaro (#47)24mins
Jun22What Leaders and Corporate Boards Can Learn From Boeing’s Mistakes: Harvard Business School’s Sandra Sucher (#46)27mins
Jun15Secret Service Director James Murray: The New Cyber Physical Nexus & How To Protect Ourselves From Cyber Risk (#45)19mins
Jun8Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence & Synthetic Biology To Usher In A New Age of Drug Discovery: James Collins (#44)23mins
Jun1Hard Won Wisdom From An Entrepreneur: Ellen Marie Bennett (#43)24mins
May25How to Get People to Say Yes: The Godfather of Influence Dr. Robert Cialdini (#42)38mins
May18The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be: Katy Milkman (#41)37mins
May11How the World’s Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life: William Green (#40)31mins
May3The Empathy Diaries and How Tech Changes Us and Our Relationships: MIT’s Sherry Turkle (#39)37mins
Apr27Losing Trust & Faith in Institutions - Why It’s Happening and the Unexpected Consequences: Yuval Levin (#38)29mins
Apr20Investing in Positive Social Outcomes with Social Impact Bonds: Tracy Palandjian (#37)21mins
Apr13Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: Education Runs on Lies (#36)28mins
Apr6A Unique Model of Innovation - Making Breakthrough Discoveries and Turning Them Into Real World Products At an Unheard of Pace: Don Ingber (#35)30mins
Mar30Getting The Odds On Your Side: Legendary Investor Howard Marks (#34)34mins
Mar23Harvard Business School’s Bill Sahlman: What I’ve Learned from Reading 10,000 Business Plans and Investing in Hundreds of Startups (#33)28mins
Mar15Former Secretary of the Treasury and President of Harvard, Larry Summers: The Big Trends Shaping the World Today (#32)31mins
Mar9Former Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd: What China’s Leader Xi Jinping Really Wants (#31)42mins
Mar2A Long Term Perspective on Climate Change - When Earth Was 20 Degrees Warmer and Crocodiles Roamed Antarctica with Princeton’s Danny Sigman (#30)18mins
Feb23Why The Innocent Plead Guilty and Jury Trials Are Now a Myth with Judge and Former Prosecutor Jed Rakoff (#29)31mins
Feb16Working for Jeff Bezos and the Secrets of Amazon’s Success: Colin Bryar and Bill Carr (#28)37mins
Feb9Nobel Laureate, Daniel Kahneman: His Latest Findings on "Noise" and Flaws in Human Judgement (#27)39mins
Feb2Tom Friedman: On the World Getting Flatter and More Fragile, and Elephants Flying (#26)22mins
Jan26How Right and Wrong Change with Technology with Juan Enriquez (#25)25mins
Jan19Princeton Psychology Professor, Eldar Shafir: Why Having Too Little Makes People Perform Worse and Become More Impatient, Impulsive, and Careless (#24)29mins
Jan12Harvard’s Chair of Astronomy, Avi Loeb: Why We Are Not Alone and Are Very Common Like Ants On A Sidewalk (#23)26mins
Jan5Marshall Van Alstyne: Why Platform Companies (Facebook, Amazon, Airbnb and Uber) Are the Opposite of Traditional Companies, Why They Become So Enormous, and How They Can Be Regulated (#22)27mins
Dec29Former Foreign Minister of Mexico, Jorge Castañeda: America Through Foreign Eyes (#21)24mins
Dec22What the Good Life Actually Looks Like Based on Harvard’s 75 Year Study with the Director of the Study, Robert Waldinger (#20)18mins
Dec8CEO of Marriott, Arne Sorenson: On the Future of Travel and, as a CEO of the Year, How To Be A Great Leader (#19)27mins
Dec1Former Under Secretary of State, Nicholas Burns: On American Foreign Policy Under President Biden and What It Can Accomplish (#18)31mins
Nov24Princeton Professor, Robert George: On Why Supreme Court Justices Are Unlike Umpires and Are Political (#17)31mins
Nov17John Cleese of Monty Python: On Creativity and How Everyone Can Be More Creative (#16)29mins
Nov10Head of Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab, Hod Lipson: On the Future of Artificial Intelligence (#15)37mins
Oct29President Obama’s Chief Pollster, Joel Benenson: On What He’s Watching Most Closely Now and What the Path Forward is for Republicans and Democrats (#14)24mins
Oct27President of Pew Research Center, Michael Dimock: On the Attitudes and Trends Shaping America Today (#13)31mins
Oct20Yale Professor, Amy Chua: On How Group Identity and a Failure to Realize Its Importance Has Caused the Rise of Partisanship and the Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy (#12)23mins
Oct13Former Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul: What Vladimir Putin Is Really Like and What He Wants Now (#11)21mins
Oct6Harvard Professor, Alex Keyssar: On What Could Go Wrong With Voting in the 2020 U.S. Election and When Congress Picks the President (#10)17mins
Sep29Former Ambassador to Israel and Egypt, Dan Kurtzer: An Inside Perspective on Israel and the Middle East (#9)27mins
Sep22MIT Professor, Andrew McAfee: On Prospering From Fewer Resources & Getting More From Less (#8)24mins
Sep15Former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt: On AI, Tech, COVID-19, and Making the World A Better Place (#7)34mins
Sep8Former Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff: On National Security Issues Today (#6)32mins
Sep1Founder of Khan Academy, Sal Khan: On Scaling to One Billion Students (#5)26mins
Aug21JetBlue Chairman, Joel Peterson: Leadership and Building a Winning Culture (#4)30mins
Jul31Richard McGregor: China’s Secretive Ruling Chinese Communist Party (#3)31mins
Jul31Harvard Law Professor, Richard Lazarus: The Century’s Biggest Environmental Law Case and What It Took to Win (#2)35mins
Jul29Founder of the Innocence Project, Barry Scheck: Why People Are Wrongfully Convicted and What We Can Do About It (#1)24mins- Jul273 Takeaways Podcast Trailer1min