Skydeck

The Harvard Business School alumni podcast

Origin Stories 04/25/2024

Origin Stories Recipients of the 2024 Alumni Achievement Award reflect on how their early life shaped them—personally and professionally /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/30977553

Mission Control 04/05/2024

Mission Control Space entrepreneur Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) on the process of finding your purpose /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/30698608

In Harmony 03/08/2024

In Harmony Born in Korea, Michael Kim (MBA 1990) spent his formative years in the US. As his novel ‘Offerings’ heads for the big screen, Asia’s “godfather of private equity” reflects on time, legacy, duty, and the unexpected connections between fiction and finance. /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/30290643

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching 02/22/2024

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching Cancer will impact nearly one in two people in their lifetime. Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) has battled it twice—and has lessons for anyone in the fight. /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/30070408

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix 01/19/2024

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix Author Anne Morriss (MBA 2004) on how companies can tackle complex issues with essential speed /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/29561738

The Musts of 2023 12/15/2023

The Musts of 2023 Alumni recommendations from the year in media /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/29098098

So You Want to Join a Startup 11/22/2023

So You Want to Join a Startup Entrepreneur and author Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) on how to look before you leap /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/28763083

Love and Money 11/03/2023

Love and Money Insights from the dating world with professional matchmaker Rachel Greenwald (MBA 1993) /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/28507682

Soldier On 10/06/2023

Soldier On Newport News Mayor Phillip Jones, a Marine Corps veteran, on managing through a school shooting crisis—and what it takes to turnaround a city /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/28245176

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS 09/19/2023

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS Alumni reflect on the like-minded cofounders, life-changing professors, and lifelong partners they met on campus. /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/28084419

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases 08/24/2023

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. /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/27843420

Striving for Imperfection 07/27/2023

Striving for Imperfection In a new book, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) offers problem-solving mindsets for uncertain times /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/27583251

Skydeck Live: Lessons from Major League Baseball’s Game-Changing Innovations 06/30/2023

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.) /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/27334443

Balancing Acts 05/22/2023

Balancing Acts Recipients of the 2023 Alumni Achievement Award offer their take on the tricky topic of managing personal and professional responsibilities /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/26914143

Fail Better 05/05/2023

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 /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/26754186

Step Change 04/12/2023

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 /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/26521341

How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis? 03/24/2023

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 /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/26330034

Clearing the Air - Episode 3: Carbon’s Second Act 02/24/2023

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. /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/26036115

Clearing the Air - Episode 2: Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains 02/14/2023

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. /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/25926036

Clearing the Air: Episode 1 - Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix? 01/30/2023

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. /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/25787958

Forged in Fire 01/13/2023

Forged in Fire HBS Executive Fellow Bill George and Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016), an author and motivational speaker, on the transformational power of crucibles /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/25598469

Singing to the Corn 12/16/2022

Singing to the Corn From the HBS Alumni Bulletin: Taylor Keen’s Sacred Seed project shows how a Native American approach to agriculture can protect the planet’s soil—one garden at a time. /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/25352754

If I Were You 10/17/2022

If I Were You Alumni offer their advice to current HBS students /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/24717528

Your Family, Your Work, Your Way 08/30/2022

Your Family, Your Work, Your Way Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) helps working parents hit the reset button, post-COVID—and offers practical advice for moving forward on an even keel at home and in the office /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/24217164

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age 08/09/2022

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age Susan Wilner Golden (PMD 59, 1990) on the promise of the new longevity economy /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/24008244

Wired to be Inspired 07/14/2022

Wired to be Inspired Professor Ranjay Gulati on the messy but transformational pursuit of purpose /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/23744648

Bidding Up 05/25/2022

Bidding Up 2022 Alumni Achievement Award recipient Bob Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) on his journey from Depression-era Nebraska to a 2020 Nobel Prize /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/23228477

Leading to Salvation 05/19/2022

Leading to Salvation 2022 Alumni Achievement Award recipient Bob Ryan (MBA 1970) had just stepped off his last board when he was called on for a different sort of service: revitalizing the oldest African American-owned business in north Minneapolis. /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/23166179

Onboarding 05/11/2022

Onboarding 2022 Alumni Achievement Award recipient Tosh Barron (MBA 1972) describes her experience as a pioneering woman in the board room, the elements of effective corporate governance, and what to look for when seeking a board role /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/23077256

Lesson Plans 05/05/2022

Lesson Plans Sal Khan’s ambition for Khan Academy: Empower billions of learners and provide a safety net for education systems around the world /episode/index/show/skydeck/id/23019251

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