UCD Business Impact
The ‘UCD Business Impact’ Podcast from UCD College of Business features thought leaders from the world of academia and industry discussing the most compelling issues affecting our lives from a business perspective.
These conversations will offer insight, spark curiosity and challenge you to rethink how you do business in a changing world.
Hosted by Emmet Oliver, financial editor and journalist; and lecturer at UCD Lochlann Quinn School of Business.
Latest episodes
Jan 13, 2023 • 35min
S3 Ep8: Failure: The hospitality industry fights back Assistant Professor Orla Byrne | Entrepreneurship and Strategy
17th January 2023. Focusing on the lived experience of entrepreneurship, Dr Orla Byrne discusses why entrepreneurship is good for society and how Ireland's hospitality sector can survive tough times. She also discusses her new initiative, AtThePass.ie, which is designed to support the current needs of hospitality, food and drink-related business owners.
Dec 20, 2022 • 40min
S3 Ep7: Is polycrisis the word of the year? Looking back at the biggest business stories of 2022
Elaine Burke and Donal O'Donovan | Business Journalists
20th December 2022. Elaine Burke, editor of Silicon Republic, and Donal O’Donovan, Business Editor at the Irish Independent and Chairman of the Business Journalists Association of Ireland, look back over the leading business stories in 2022.
Dec 12, 2022 • 37min
S3 Ep6: Taxing Times
Anna Scally | International Tax Partner, Head of Technology and Media, and FinTech Lead, KPMG Ireland
13th December 2022. KPMG Partner and UCD Quinn School alumna Anna Scally discusses whether Ireland can remain an FDI leader and the future of Ireland's tech cluster.
Nov 21, 2022 • 33min
S3 Ep5: Transforming your Organisation
15th November 2022. Deloitte Ireland CEO Harry Goddard explains how firms, including his own, are changing to meet an anxious age and reveals how to navigate a world in a state of “permacrisis”.
Nov 7, 2022 • 31min
S3 Ep4: Inflation- crisis or opportunity?
8th November 2022. Julie Ennis discusses how her UCD Smurfit School MBA helped in her leadership leap from Bank of Ireland to Sodexo and how staying client-focused amid surging prices is presenting new opportunities for cost mitigation and sustainability. She also discusses the company’s dedication to its people and diversity in leadership positions.
Oct 25, 2022 • 31min
S3 Ep3: No silver bullet: Why government needs a fresh approach to the energy crisis
25th October 2022. UCD Business Alumni Award winner for 2022 Mary Quaney talks about Mainstream’s tremendous international growth in emerging markets and how enhancing grid transmission infrastructure may see Ireland become a powerhouse in wind energy.
Oct 11, 2022 • 32min
S3 Ep2: Our energy future: Charting this winter and the winters ahead
With a background in mathematical and statistical modelling of energy markets, Assistant Professor Mel Devine reveals how renewables may solve this winter’s looming energy crisis and how new energy forms could hold the key to our future.
Sep 27, 2022 • 33min
S3 Ep1: Allen Higgins - Creativity in Business
Research Associate Allen Higgins discusses the role of good design and creativity and how they can be positively applied in the world of business.
Jul 5, 2022 • 37min
S2 Ep19: Dr Tom Conlon - Sky's the limit
Associate Professor Tom Conlon is that Academic Director for UCD’s Masters in Aviation Finance and talks about why he is optimistic about aviation's future in a net zero world and how he sees transport operating in a decarbonised world.
Jun 21, 2022 • 36min
S2 Ep18: Colm O'Reilly - Media Village
CEO of the Business Post and UCD MBA alumnus Colm O’Reilly talks about the future of the newspaper industry from libel reform, tech disruption and the importance of supporting great journalists in a time when they are under fire.
