
Skydeck
The Harvard Business School alumni podcast
Latest episodes

Aug 24, 2023 • 16min
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
In this excerpt from the HBS podcast Climate Rising, Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018) discusses the business plan behind her sustainable spending app.

Jul 27, 2023 • 17min
Striving for Imperfection
In a new book, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) offers problem-solving mindsets for uncertain times

Jun 30, 2023 • 17min
Skydeck Live: Lessons from Major League Baseball’s Game-Changing Innovations
Chris Marinak (MBA 2008), Chief Operations and Strategy Officer at Major League Baseball, on building and nurturing an organizational culture of innovation—and what his experience at MLB can teach any business leader. (Recorded live at Spring Reunions.)

May 22, 2023 • 14min
Balancing Acts
Recipients of the 2023 Alumni Achievement Award offer their take on the tricky topic of managing personal and professional responsibilities

May 5, 2023 • 19min
Fail Better
Recipients of the 2023 Alumni Achievement Award describe when things didn’t go according to plan—and how those painful experiences were ultimately a good thing

Apr 12, 2023 • 26min
Step Change
From the Bulletin: When she came back to Egypt five years ago, investor Amal Enan (MBA 2014) embraced the chaos—and found a path to impact her country’s future

Mar 24, 2023 • 13min
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
In this excerpt from HBS's Managing the Future of Work podcast, Mallory Dwinal-Palisch (MBA 2015) offers a lesson plan for the American education system

Feb 24, 2023 • 10min
Clearing the Air - Episode 3: Carbon’s Second Act
This is the third and final episode of Clearing the Air, our mini-series on carbon capture. In this episode, we look at some of the potential uses for captured carbon—including a startup employing nature’s C02 recycling model—and the necessity of sweeping, speedy scaling.

Feb 14, 2023 • 9min
Clearing the Air - Episode 2: Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
This is the second episode of our Skydeck mini-series on carbon capture. In the first episode, we explored the scope of the problem—and the potential size of the business opportunity at this moment. In this episode we’re headed to the Carbon Capture Inc.'s headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles, where the company's first prototype was built. And to Southwest Wyoming where the company is planning the first large-scale direct-air capture facility in the United States.

Jan 30, 2023 • 11min
Clearing the Air: Episode 1 - Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
This is the first episode of "Clearing the Air", a three-part series focused on the business of carbon capture, a technology that could help address the climate change crisis by removing excess carbon dioxide right out of the atmosphere. The promise of this approach has launched a raft of companies that not only capture but also store and even reuse the carbon—creating an industry that has attracted several billion dollars of government and investor capital in just the last few years. But the scope of the problem is massive and growing, which means that all of these promising new ideas need to launch and scale quickly. This series will take you inside the world of carbon capture, guided by innovators and experts at the forefront of the movement who will help you understand what is possible.