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Chicago Booth Review Podcast

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Feb 7, 2024 • 20min

Why AI may be your best strategist

Greg Bunch from Chicago Booth explores how AI can revolutionize strategic decision-making in business. He discusses leveraging GPT chatbots for idea analysis, decision-making, and execution assistance. The podcast also delves into entrepreneurship, coding languages for web development, and steps to understand AI's financial benefits.
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Jan 31, 2024 • 17min

How should you deliver negative feedback?

How would you tell one of your direct reports that their work isn’t good enough? Especially if that person seems blissfully unaware that they are underperforming? In this episode of the Chicago Booth Review podcast, we’re launching a new podcast miniseries, the audio version of our popular Business Practice column, where we asked people to script what they would say in a challenging workplace scenario, and Chicago Booth behavioral science professor George Wu analyzes the responses.
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Jan 24, 2024 • 20min

Would you call out a workplace bully?

Many of us have seen bullying behavior at work. And though we might not like to admit it, many of us have failed to do anything about it. That can reflect the difficult trade-offs that come with calling out bullying: subjecting ourselves and others to scrutiny, completely changing the dynamic between colleagues, and potentially damaging your own career. In this episode, Chicago Booth’s John Paul Rollert reflects on “the precarious relationship between ethics and expediency” when it comes to blowing the whistle on workplace bullying.
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Jan 17, 2024 • 39min

A Nobel laureate on the limits of evidence-based policy

The podcast explores the limitations of evidence-based policy, the relationship between economists and policymakers, challenges in interpreting laboratory experiments, communicating confidence in economic findings, pricing carbon, and the potential of machine learning in economic analysis.
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Jan 10, 2024 • 16min

Challenge your assumptions, and embrace ambiguity

Explore the concept of uncertainty and ambiguity and how challenging assumptions and embracing ambiguity can help leaders navigate uncertain times. Learn about the history of skyscraper construction and its impact on questioning assumptions. Understand the value of embracing ambiguity in uncertain times and the scarcity of individuals with this skill. Discover the importance of learning from new information and creating structure in uncertain times.
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Jan 3, 2024 • 17min

Why a soft landing is so hard

The podcast discusses the challenges of achieving a soft landing for the US economy. It explores the importance of a conservative approach, the impact of inflation on central banking, and the challenges posed by immediate market reactions. It also analyzes the implications of US policy on international spillovers.
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Dec 27, 2023 • 19min

How to keep your New Year’s Resolutions

How long do you stick to your New Year’s resolutions? Why is it so hard to keep them going? How can you make 2024 that exceptional year when you actually keep your New Year’s resolutions? In this episode, we get advice from Chicago Booth’s Ayelet Fishbach, a professor of behavioral science, and author of the book, Get it Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation.
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Dec 20, 2023 • 37min

Steve Jobs' Ghost Haunts Silicon Valley

Streaming services love a good tech startup business story, preferably one featuring a quirky CEO devoid of self-awareness, with an oversized ego and grandiose sense of ambition and purpose, and one finger always resting on the self-destruct button. Hence Super Pumped, the story of Travis Kalanick and Uber, The Dropout, about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, and WeCrashed, the tale of Adam Neumann and WeWork. In this episode of the Chicago Booth Review podcast, Chicago Booth’s John Paul Rollert reads his 2023 essay that saw one common thread between the three series: the echoes of the legendary Steve Jobs.
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Dec 13, 2023 • 20min

Who does Raghuram Rajan blame for inflation?

Raghuram Rajan, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, discusses the Fed's role in the US economy, its response to the pandemic, and the influence of central banks in causing inflation. The podcast explores the power of central banks, their response to inflation during the pandemic, and the impact on government finances. It also examines alternative approaches to the Fed's decision-making and the role of central banks and politicians in exacerbating inflation.
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Dec 6, 2023 • 22min

How to navigate a volatile world

Explore the relevance of military strategy in business and how it can help navigate unpredictable times. Discover parallels between military history and business, using iconic leaders as examples. Learn about different leadership types and their mythological counterparts. Understand the application of strategic thinking in negotiation and succession planning. Explore the role of social capital, partnership, and examining shortcomings for success.

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