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Preventing a Potential Culture Clash at Work 05/12/2025

Preventing a Potential Culture Clash at Work On this episode of The Insightful Leader: when Fuyao Glass opened a U.S. factory, it underestimated the importance of translating company culture. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/36512210

Workers Are Stressed Out. Here’s How Leaders Can Help. 04/07/2025

Workers Are Stressed Out. Here’s How Leaders Can Help. On this (rerun) episode of The Insightful Leader: You can't always control what happens at work. But reframing setbacks, and instituting some serious calendar discipline, can go a long way toward reducing stress. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/36010785

What Rom-coms Can Teach Business Leaders 03/17/2025

What Rom-coms Can Teach Business Leaders On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we’ll discuss how these movies can help us navigate conflict and tackle power dynamics. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/35721545

How Should You Present Yourself at Work? 02/24/2025

How Should You Present Yourself at Work? Be yourself! No, not like that. On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we help you navigate the competing advice about how much to share and hold back. This episode originally aired in January of 2024. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/35384905

Avoiding the Likability Trap at Work 02/03/2025

Avoiding the Likability Trap at Work Plus: insecure employees and a flagging culture. On this episode of The Insightful Leader's "Ask Insight," a conversation with Professor Harry Kraemer. This is a (favorite!) rerun. We'll have a couple more in the coming weeks, with new episodes to follow. Stay tuned! /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/35122390

You Have an Idea for a New AI Tool. Now What? 01/13/2025

You Have an Idea for a New AI Tool. Now What? On this episode of The Insightful Leader: two researchers offer tips on how to get AI development right. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/34808255

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi on Her Climb to the Top 12/23/2024

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi on Her Climb to the Top On this episode of The Insightful Leader, Kellogg’s Ellen Taaffe interviews her mentor about success, self-belief, and supporting the next generation of leaders. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/34535955

How to Get Delegation Right, Part 3 of 3 12/11/2024

How to Get Delegation Right, Part 3 of 3 On this episode of The Insightful Leader’s “Ask Insight,” we finish our conversation by getting real about the emotional stakes that make delegating hard. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/34321545

How to Get Delegation Right, Part 2 of 3 12/10/2024

How to Get Delegation Right, Part 2 of 3 On this episode of The Insightful Leader’s “Ask Insight,” our conversation continues with a discussion of which tasks and functions to delegate—and which to keep. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/34321490

How to Get Delegation Right, Part 1 of 3 12/09/2024

How to Get Delegation Right, Part 1 of 3 It’s a tricky skill to master. On this episode of The Insightful Leader’s “Ask Insight,” a Kellogg professor and executive coach says it begins with assessing your team members and playing to their strengths. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/34321430

The AI Risks Your Business Should Avoid 11/26/2024

The AI Risks Your Business Should Avoid On this episode of The Insightful Leader, why your trade secrets may not be safe, and other considerations. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/34147735

How Huy Fong’s Sriracha Went from Hot to Not 11/11/2024

How Huy Fong’s Sriracha Went from Hot to Not When missteps knocked the famous “rooster sauce” off its pedestal, a competitor seized the moment. On this episode of The Insightful Leader: Why one brand sizzled and the other fizzled. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/33838932

How to Grow as a Leader Without Burning Yourself Out 10/28/2024

How to Grow as a Leader Without Burning Yourself Out In this episode of The Insightful Leader, a former president at Kraft Foods explains why “sometimes just working harder is a complete waste of time.” /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/33617452

Third-Party Cookies Are Crumbling. What’s a Marketer to Do? 10/14/2024

Third-Party Cookies Are Crumbling. What’s a Marketer to Do? New rules are making it harder to track customers’ online behaviors. On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we look at what this means for companies large and small. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/33437847

Insight Unpacked S2E5 | American Healthcare—Is This the Best We Can Do? 07/22/2024

Insight Unpacked S2E5 | American Healthcare—Is This the Best We Can Do? In the final episode of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we travel overseas, and through our own backyard, in search of a way forward. On this episode, we hear from Kellogg faculty members Craig Garthwaite, Amanda Starc, and David Dranove. We also talk to Murray Ross, vice president of Kaiser Permanente's Institute for Health Policy and Government Relations. Visit the for supplementary materials. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/32217322

Insight Unpacked S2E4 | The Bargain That Fuels Big Pharma 07/15/2024

Insight Unpacked S2E4 | The Bargain That Fuels Big Pharma What will we pay for the next groundbreaking drug? In episode 4 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we explore the trade-off at the heart of pharmaceutical innovation. On this episode, we hear from Kellogg faculty members Amanda Starc and Craig Garthwaite, as well as Boston University School of Law’s Kevin Outterson. Visit the for supplementary materials. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/32112437

Insight Unpacked S2E3 | The Misadventures of Insuring America 07/08/2024

Insight Unpacked S2E3 | The Misadventures of Insuring America In episode 3 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we explain how insurance companies became everybody’s favorite villain. On this episode, we talk to Kellogg faculty members Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove, and Paul Campbell, alongside Wharton School professor Robert Lawton Burns. Visit the for supplementary materials. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/31969252

Insight Unpacked S2E2 | The Power of the Physician's Pen 07/01/2024

Insight Unpacked S2E2 | The Power of the Physician's Pen We rely on doctors to keep us healthy. In episode 2 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we learn at what cost. On this episode, we talk to Kellogg professors Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove, and clinical associate professor Paul Campbell about the role doctors play in the expense and complexity of the American healthcare system. Visit the episode page for supplementary materials. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/31932867

Insight Unpacked S2E1 | The Problem with Megaproviders 06/24/2024

Insight Unpacked S2E1 | The Problem with Megaproviders In episode 1 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we investigate how hospital systems got so big—and what that means for our health and our pocketbooks. On this episode, we talk to Kellogg professors Craig Garthwaite and David Dranove, and Wharton School professor Robert Lawton Burns. Dranove and Burns co-wrote the book . Visit the for supplementary materials. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/31814372

Introducing Insight Unpacked, Season 2 06/21/2024

Introducing Insight Unpacked, Season 2 Introducing Insight Unpacked, Season 2: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives If you lived in the nineteenth century, and you got sick, it was bad news. Simple urinary tract infections were deadly. Appendicitis killed you. And Syphilis might leave you without a nose. Thanks to modern medicine, this is pretty unimaginable today. And if you live in the United States, you know that we pay handsomely for the privilege. But why do we pay more than any other country? Welcome to Insight Unpacked—the series where our faculty break down a complex business topic. And boy do we have one for you this season: American healthcare and its web of misaligned incentives. And we’re gonna get really familiar with the things that motivate this system’s biggest players. Those players? Hospital systems, doctors, health-insurance companies, pharmaceuticals, and patients. So subscribe to Insight Unpacked, or check your feed at The Insightful Leader. Episodes drop on Mondays starting June 24. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/31813927

Why Italy’s Economy Offers a Cautionary Tale for the U.S. 06/17/2024

Why Italy’s Economy Offers a Cautionary Tale for the U.S. Since the 1990s, taxes, debt, and regulations have hamstrung the Italian economy. On this episode of The Insightful Leader: Could America be next? /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/31766845

Why You Need a Killer Answer to “So, What Do You Do?” 05/17/2024

Why You Need a Killer Answer to “So, What Do You Do?” A great response to this question can open doors. On this episode of The Insightful Leader: we’ve got tips for fine-tuning your answer. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/31342712

When AI Becomes a TA 04/29/2024

When AI Becomes a TA Curious about using AI at work? On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we hear from one professor who found a fascinating, low-stakes way to bring AI into his workplace: the classroom. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/31006133

What’s It Take to Get on a Board, Anyway? 04/15/2024

What’s It Take to Get on a Board, Anyway? It’s not like applying for a job. On this episode of The Insightful Leader, an expert demystifies the process. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/30801333

AI Is a Tool. How Do We Want to Use It? 04/01/2024

AI Is a Tool. How Do We Want to Use It? Generative AI is like “a hammer looking for a nail.” On this episode of The Insightful Leader: we have to decide what the nail should be. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/30597093

Need to Make a Point? Tell a Good Story. 03/18/2024

Need to Make a Point? Tell a Good Story. Plus: more leadership advice in this episode of The Insightful Leader’s “Ask Insight” series. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/30393213

Need Product Inspiration? Meet Your Customer in the Wild. 03/04/2024

Need Product Inspiration? Meet Your Customer in the Wild. On this episode of The Insightful Leader: a consumer anthropologist takes us behind the scenes as she interviews a “pet parent.” /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/30193783

Can Complexity Science Help Us Understand Organizations? 02/19/2024

Can Complexity Science Help Us Understand Organizations? On this episode of The Insightful Leader: From climate change to neuroscience, this new approach is reshaping how we study complicated systems. /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/29988138

The Complicated Promise of ESG 02/05/2024

The Complicated Promise of ESG On this episode of The Insightful Leader: Are companies as socially responsible as they claim? And how much should investors care? /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/29776648

How Should You Present Yourself at Work? 01/17/2024

How Should You Present Yourself at Work? Be yourself! No, not like that. On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we help you navigate the competing advice about how much to share and hold back. Book links: /episode/index/show/kellogginsight/id/29518358

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