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TRIUM ConnectsEP40 - AI – How did we get here and where are we going?AI is becoming ubiquitous in our lives. It shapes how we work, play, interact, create, and even manage our health—and this is only the beginning. To understand where we are and where we might go, we first need to understand how we got here. By tracing the evolving nature of machine intelligence, we can appreciate how today’s AI differs from its past and how it is likely to evolve. With that in mind, we can begin to ask the big questions: When should we trust AI over human judgment? How should we govern its development? How will it c...
2025-12-051h 21TRIUM ConnectsE39 - There is Definitely an ‘I’ in Team: Understanding Team Dynamics in Complex OrganisationsAt the heart of every organization lies a web of relationships: individual performance is shaped by not only a person’s inherent characteristics, but also by their interactions with others within teams, and their teams’ interactions with other teams across the system.Within such a complex structure, how can we know how much of ‘deviant behavior’ can be explained by poor leadership? What kinds of inter-team conflict—between whom—improve performance, and which kinds undermine it? How do the relational dynamics of team performance create unavoidable challenges during rapid organisational scaling? How can we know if or when the poten...
2025-10-011h 01TRIUM ConnectsE38 - Europe’s Politics Are Changing: The Rise of the Challenger PartiesHow can we understand the decline of establishment political parties and the rise of new, successful challengers in Europe? Why are these new challengers predominantly right wing nationalist parties? How does their rise compare to the MAGA movement in the US? How is this new political landscape creating even greater challenges to attempts to solve cross-border problems with supranational cooperation? To help answer these questions and others, my guest for this episode is Professor Sara Hobolt, the Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and professor in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. Previously, she has h...
2025-07-071h 02TRIUM ConnectsE37 - What comes next? Putting current attacks on the global market into a historic contextThe policies in the first 100 days of the Trump administration have resulted in an extraordinary time of uncertainty and change in the way the global economy works and how it will function in the future. The shock at the speed and scope of the undermining of the current system regulating global trade is real. When we feel disorientated by our current experience of chaos, it is often helpful to try to re-anchor ourselves in putting what we are experiencing into a historical context. In this way, United States’ actions can be seen as part of a semi-predictable, oscillating pattern of the r...
2025-04-281h 14TRIUM ConnectsE36 - A Unified Theory of Finance: The Corporate Life CycleWe are all born, become toddlers, teenagers, adults, mid-aged, late middle aged, and eventually die. Do company’s follow this same pattern? If so, can we use that pattern to better predict what they will do and compare that to what they should do at different stages of their life cycles?My guest for this episode is Aswath Damodaran. Aswath is a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University (Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education). Aswath is a super star professor, considered both in and out of academia as the ‘Dean of Valu...
2025-02-041h 08TRIUM ConnectsE35 - A Perfect Storm – Tragedy in the Middle EastMy guest for this episode of Fawaz Gerges of the London School of Economics where he is the Emirates Professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies. Fawaz earned his doctorate at Oxford and has taught there, as well as at Harvard and Columbia. He has been a research scholar at Princeton and is the author of 10 books on the Middle East and his articles and editorials have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, The Baltimore Sun, The Independent (London), Al Hayat (London), Foreign Policy, Newsweek, The National In...
2024-11-081h 31TRIUM ConnectsE34 - What comes next? The slow death of the neo-liberal world viewAcross the world, the rise of various forms of authoritarianism and ethno-nationalism seems to be on an ever upward trend. This creates huge uncertainties across multiple dimensions – personal, cultural, political, and not least of which in challenges business leaders face as they attempt to navigate across this uncertainty. All of this turmoil is, according to Larry Kramer - the Vice Chancellor and President of the London School of Economics - to be expected. Neo-liberalism, the once dominant political/economic paradigm, is no longer able to explain or order our understandings of our world. This triggers a search for, a...
2024-08-1255 minTRIUM ConnectsE33 - The Learning LeaderOnce in a while you come across a person who embodies, in their thoughts and deeds, a kind of archetype or ideal form of a role – the great artist, the wise philosopher, the genius physicist. Hervé Coyco, for me, is the archetype of the best of business leaders. In our conversation he shares some of the wisdom, humility and practices which have made him such a successful leader and impressive human being.Hervé spent his whole corporate career at Michelin – 30 years - where he started as an entry level engineer and rose to be the President of the Pa...
2024-06-041h 02
Xplore MarketingXplore Marketing Episode 128: Натанаил Стефанов "Sofia Tech Park - модел на комуникация към различни аудитории"Xplore Marketing - Епизод 128 на гости ни е Натанаил Стефанов и си говорим за проекти на Sofia Tech Park и модел на комуникация към различни аудитории
Натанаил е предприемач, преподавател и доброволец. Последните години се занимава активно с иновации и предприемачество, стартъпи, комерсиализацията на наука и технологии и с развитие на предприемачески общности и екосистеми. Също така има опит в сферата на образованието, нестопанския и публичния сектор.
Съосновател е на BESCO – Българската предприемаческа асоциация (https://besco.bg) и BETMA – Балканската асоциация за инженерство, технологии и изобретения (https://www.betma.eu). В момента е заместник-председател на Sofia Tech Park (https://sofiatech.bg) – първия научно-технологичен парк в България.
5 години е преподавал маркетингови дисциплини в Стопански факултет СУ, като е учил предприемачество в UC Berkeley и Babson College, а в момента следва магистратура по бизнес TRIUM Global EMBA в LSE, HEC Paris и NYU Stern.
В рамките на разговора ще чуеш дискусия около следните интересни теми:
Как се създава екосистема от проекти и се поддържа общата визия и структура на един проект?
Усеща ли се с времето наличието на общности от хора и бизнеси, които все повече стоят близо до проекта и позволяват той да има все по-ясна идентичност?
Какви нови програми има в Sofia Tech Park и как брандът се надгражда на база другите проекти и аудитории, с които работи?
Кой е най-интересният проект от гледна точка на развитие и комуникация в Sofia Tech Park?
Къде Tech Park води комуникация с тези хора и бизнеси и дали има честота в тези разговори?
Как хората се свързват най-често със Sofia Tech Park?
Каква е ролята на образованието и връзката с Тech Park?
Какви са любимите ресурси на Натанаил?
Цитати:
Целта ни е да можем да намерим правилните успешни истории на компаниите в Тех Парка, с които да можем да позиционираме в правилните медии и така да навлезем към различни по-широки аудитории.
Ресурси:
https://sofiatech.bg/
https://seeip.eu/
https://www.facebook.com/SofiaTechPark
https://sofiatech.bg/news/
2024-05-081h 00TRIUM ConnectsE32 - Re-Inventing Your Business ModelMy guest for this episode is Laurence Lehmann-Ortega. Laurence is one of the world’s leading experts on how existing firms can create innovative new business models. In this episode we discuss the newest edition of her book, Re(Inventing) your Business Model: The Odyssey 3.14 Approach, co-authored with Helene Musikas and Jean March Schoettl. The book has also been adapted into a MOOC by Coursera. Like many of the best business schoolteachers, Laurence started her career in the consulting world before transitioning to academia, first at GSCM Montpellier and from 2010 at HEC Paris. At HEC she teaches strateg...
2024-04-011h 04TRIUM ConnectsE31 - Becoming YouI am delighted to be joined by Suzy Welch for this episode. Suzy has had an amazing career! After graduating from Harvard, she became a crime beat reporter for the Miami Herald but after a short time was re-assigned to the business section – a change which would set the stage for the rest of her career. She then left journalism and went back to Harvard for her MBA. After graduating with honours, Suzy launched into a successful stint at Bain and Company as a consultant working with heavy manufacturing clients in the Midwest of the USA. Suzy left...
2024-01-291h 03TRIUM ConnectsEP30 - Reading China in the OriginalOccasionally you read a book that changes the way you think about a topic or a place. The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin is just such a book and it was great to have her join me on TRIUM Connects. We discuss the consequences (both intended an unintended) of the one child policy, the combination of strong political centralisation and economic decentralisation, the ‘mayor economy’ and the combination of a super powerful yet agile state, able to act much more quickly than more democratically constrained actors. Jin argues that to understand all of this...
2023-11-061h 13
GAB TALKSGAB TALKS with Todd Wade, author of Cybercrime, publisher BCSCybercrime is a sad, ever-developing reality of our digital lives. Cybercriminals are ruthless and know how to use persuasion and manipulation to get what they want. We are all in danger of falling victim to their tricks, which can lead to serious consequences for our business, our family and ourselves. This book aims to prepare you to defend yourself against the tactics cybercriminals use, and gives you advice on what you can do if you, or your business, does fall victim to cybercrime. With a focus on cyber fraud and cyber extortion, this book explores cybercrime from attack methods...
2023-10-1922 minTRIUM ConnectsE29 - China in Latin AmericaI am guessing that most of you have heard about Chinese firms and government’s large involvement and investment in Africa. For example, as part of a strategy to secure the resources needed to play a leading role in the economy of the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, China has purchased mining rights, mined, and built refineries for rare earth elements in multiple locations in Africa. But did you know that the annual amount of traded goods between China and Latin America, as well as foreign direct investment is about twice as much as between Chin...
2023-10-131h 02TRIUM ConnectsE28 - The 2023 Banking Crisis: Can we Trust the Regulators?In 2008, at the height of the global financial crisis, 25 US banks failed. Their combined asset value was equal to $526 billion (adjusted for inflation). In the first 5 months of 2023, three banks have failed with a total asset value of $532 billion. Let that sink in – we are in uncharted territory. What is happening and why? Why do we see a kind of slow-motion contagion effect? Will more banks fail? Has the US government practically removed the limit on deposits insured through the FDIC? What does the current situation tell us about the health of the banking sector and the regulatory framework meant to...
2023-05-241h 08TRIUM ConnectsE27 - Upwards Influence – The Art and Science of Being HeardUpwards Influence – The Art and Science of Being HeardOver the last several decades, more and more leadership research has highlighted the need for leaders to create an environment where disparate and diverse opinions and approaches are elicited and incorporated into decision making. If leaders can manage that, they can more easily avoid premature consensus and narrative fallacies, thereby improving performance.Much of this research addresses the ‘demand’ side of the equation – how can/should leaders create environments whereby people feel that they have a permission structure to contribute to – or even openly question and contradict...
2023-03-281h 03TRIUM ConnectsE26 - Respect Me! The Role of Status Concerns in International RelationsExplanations of individual’s political affiliations which do not take non-material into account are fatally flawed. We simply cannot explain or predict people’s political behaviour without thinking about how support for individuals/parties are affected by, and shape people’s identities, felt exclusion/inclusion, legitimacy, and recognition.However, when it comes to trying to explain how states will behave in the international system, our theories mostly ignore these factors. Traditionally, scholars have focused on how particular actions are driven by states’ perceptions of their own material interests (or at least their elites). In that context, if/when a sta...
2023-01-241h 07TRIUM ConnectsE25 - The key to successful innovation = lots and lots of ideas.Search Amazon for the word ‘innovation’ in its ‘Business, Finance & Accounting’ book section, and you will find more than 60,000 volumes. The trick is finding stuff worth reading in this deep and wide ocean of material. The new book, Ideaflow: Why Creative Businesses Win, by Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn is just such a book. I welcomed Jeremy to this episode of TRIUM Connects to discuss the book as well as his general views on creativity and innovation. In the book, Jeremy and Perry argue that we shouldn’t think of innovation as an event, a workshop, a sprint or a...
2022-10-281h 11TRIUM ConnectsE24 - Keeping Safe in a Digital WorldWe have all become aware how important data is as everything becomes more digitalised. Data is everywhere – nearly our every moment and movement is recorded and stored. Connected devices offer more and more convenience. Our cars exchange information with our phones, which exchange information with our smart houses, which exchange information with our home computers,… and on and on. Without the digital exchange of information our personal and professional lives have become practically impossible. To be ‘disconnected’ is not really an option for most. But, the more connected we are, the more nodes in our network, the more we rely on...
2022-10-0757 minTRIUM ConnectsE23 - Synthetic Biology: We Need to Talk…We are at the start of a time when humans will be able to program cells and organisms in analogous ways to which we now program computers. Our technology and understanding of the basic structures of life, augmented by computer simulations driven by AI, are driving breakthrough innovations at an ever-increasing rate.What will this mean for us all? It could mean the end of most diseases and the actual process of aging. I could mean that the current existential risks of climate change and bio-diversity collapse could be removed. It could also mean that our expo...
2022-08-081h 07TRIUM ConnectsE22 - It’s All About the PeopleWhat does being a fabulously successful, early stage VC investor have in common with being a world class CEO? The answer, according to Jihoon Rim, my guest for this episode, is the ability to select the right people and then, largely get out of their way and let them do their jobs.Jihoon, after a stint at Softbank, founded his own VC firm – Kcube Ventures – in 2012 with an initial fund of USD 10M. In 2021, when the fund was liquidated, it returned more than USD 1B. In 2015, Jihoon was appointed the CEO of Kakao. In the 2.5 years of his...
2022-06-021h 08TRIUM ConnectsE21 - Adding a 'P' to ESGOver the last 10-20 years we have seen the rise and rise of populist and nationalist movements in democracies across the world. This, in part, reflects a growing dissatisfaction with the state of our democratic institutions. Many people just don’t believe that democracy delivers for them.My guest for this episode is Professor Alberto Alemanno. To combat the ever-increasing attraction of illiberal political movements, Alberto believes we need to work towards creating a more even playing field between companies and citizens in our civil society. If we could do that, so the argument goes, we would...
2022-04-291h 14TRIUM ConnectsE20 - War in Ukraine: The Limits and Strengths of an Interdependent WorldI am joined in this episode by Professor Mick Cox of the LSE to discuss the unfolding tragic war in Ukraine. How do we possibly make sense of what is happening? What kind of end can we imagine when losing is not an option for anyone? What does winning or losing even mean in this situation? Is this the end the age of international order, growing prosperity, and relative peace created by a rules-based international system? If so, what will take its place? Will China play the role of the peacemaker in the interests of maintaining global stability, or will its a...
2022-03-111h 05TRIUM ConnectsE19 - Social Media and Social Pathology: Why and How to Hold Platforms Responsible for HarmI am joined in this episode by Professor Vasant Dhar where we talk about why social media platforms should be regulated and how we would go about doing so. Vasant argues that we have failed to install any rules of the game when it comes to holding platforms responsible for their demonstratable contribution to social ills. This, according to Vasant, leads to some truly egregious gaps in our ability to avoid negative outcomes and hold those responsible liable for their actions. For example, in our current settings, a social platform could be shown to be responsible for tens of tho...
2022-03-011h 14
Real & Raw by Unsetting Expectations#15 Identifying, accepting and expressing feelings with Dr. Rashmi NarayanaIn this Real & Raw episode we welcomed Dr. Rashmi Narayana, a psychiatrist and a Leadership & Clarity coach, who has worked across academia, the humanitarian sector, and tech start-ups. She is currently running her coaching practice, supporting female tech CEO in running company operations & founders in early-stage tech start-ups to identify their personal values and translate them to company values and is proud to be in a group of 28 international leadership coaches on the TRIUM EMBA program and a coach on the Imperial College, London Coach and Coffee program.We often ignore and override our feelings which can...
2022-03-011h 01TRIUM ConnectsE18 - Stewards of the Future: Can and Should we Count on Boards to do the Right Thing?Increasingly, company boards are expected to incorporate environmental, social and governance issues into their strategic choices and performance criteria. How, exactly, should they do this? One approach is to integrate the entire costs/benefits of the firm’s activities, including those which are currently unpaid-for externalities, into its balance sheet. But is that really possible? Or, even desirable?In this episode I discuss this issue – and others! – with my guest, Helle Bank Jorgensen. Helle is an internationally recognized expert on sustainable business practices, with a 30-year record of turning environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks into innovative...
2022-01-251h 13TRIUM ConnectsE17 - Supply Chain Management in Transition: What has COVID taught us about the weaknesses of how we manage supply chains?How should we view the current crisis in our supply chains? Did the external shock of COVID create severe, but relatively temporary problems? If so, then we should, slowly but surely, see a return to how things were before, with ‘just in time’ principles driving supply chain design and execution. Or, has the crisis revealed fundamental structural weaknesses in our pre-COVID practices? If so, we should expect significant changes in supply chain designs in a post-COVID world. Which do you predict?Professor Michel Fender of HEC Paris, one of the world’s experts on supply chain management...
2021-12-181h 01TRIUM ConnectsE16 - Democratic Dilemmas – When should democratically derived choices in the past bind our current and future democratic choices?How and when should we decide today what areas of future public policy we are not prepared to trust our future selves to make wisely? In other words, when should we voluntarily constrain our future democratic choices by privileging our current democratic choices? This is the theme of my discussion in this episode with Professor Andrés Velasco, the Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and the former Finance Minister of Chile.While somewhat common in monetary economic policy (think independent central banks immune to short term democratic pressures), An...
2021-11-271h 10TRIUM ConnectsE15 - Making Sense of the Space Economy: Myths, Sideshows and PromiseAre we at the start of a new and glorious age of space tourism led by private investment? Is this the first step to a potentially massive space-based economy to support humans in earth’s orbit with colonies on the Moon and Mars? Will all of this be built and financed through private, mega-companies? My guest for this episode is Dr Andrew Aldrin (TRIUM Class of 2005). Andy is currently the Director of the Aldrin Family Foundation and has literally an entire lifetime’s experience working at the interface between private and public involvement in the creation of a space...
2021-10-271h 17Real & Raw by Unsetting Expectations#01 Ambition, uncertainty, fear of success, being in control with Dr. Rashmi NarayanaRashmi is a psychiatrist and coach who has worked across academia, the humanitarian sector, and tech start-ups. She is currently running her coaching practice, supporting female tech CEO in running company operations & founders in early-stage tech start-ups to identify their personal values and translate them to company values and is proud to be in a group of 28 international leadership coaches on the TRIUM EMBA program and a coach on the Imperial College, London Coach and Coffee program. We talked about meeting expectations, worrying about mistakes and what to do when you've been feeling like you're stuck! Hope you'll enjoy...
2021-10-1948 min
All in a Day's WorkEpisode 25: Sumeera Rasul, TED ConferencesIn this episode, Sarah Rosenthal speaks with NYU alumna, Sumeera Rasul, about finding and being a mentor, coping with sex discrimination in the workplace, and what it’s like to work in the startup world.
Sumeera Rasul is an accomplished leader with extensive experience in digital product management, service design and operations within startups, tech companies and management consulting. She has launched global digital products for some of the most iconic brands including Apple, Google, HBO, TED and Nike. She received her global EMBA degree from TRIUM (a joint degree program between NYU, LSE and HEC Paris)....
2021-10-0121 min
TRIUM ConnectsE14 - World Class Entrepreneurship in Africa: Turning Challenges into OpportunitiesMy guest this episode is Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede (TRIUM Class of 2016). Aig is a world class finance and social entrepreneur. In 2002 he acquired (with his friend and colleague Herbert Wigwe) a struggling Nigerian bank for around US$10 million. After 11 years of his leadership as the CEO, the bank had a market capitalisation of around US$1.3 billion and had become one of the most important banks, not only in Nigeria, but across Africa. He tells the story of the acquisition, turnaround and rapid scaling of Access Bank in his new book, Leaving the Tarmac: Buying a Bank in Africa. In this episo...
2021-08-191h 30
TRIUM ConnectsE13 - Is Marketing Really a Black Hole? How to bridge the gap between finance and marketingMy guest this episode is Chris Burggraeve. Chris is a practitioner scholar of the art and science of marketing. His corporate marketing career culminated as the Chief Marketing Officer for AB Inbev from 2007-2012. In 2013 he founded Vicomte, a marketing advisory and micro-ventures firm. He is also a former Capstone Project Director for the TRIUM Global EMBA.In this episode, we discuss his latest book, Marketing is not a Blackhole. For Chris, if you have a business model based on a branded product or service, then marketing is at the heart of everything you do as a c...
2021-07-191h 13
TRIUM ConnectsE12 - Private Equity: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?My guest for this episode is Oliver Gottschalg. Oliver is the Academic Dean of the TRIUM Global EMBA program and an Associate Professor of Strategy and Business Policy at HEC-Paris. Oliver is a world renowned expert in the strategic logic and the performance determinants of private equity investments. He straddles both the academic and practitioner worlds of these topics as both a scholar and the founder of firm which provides information on private equity funds’ manager performance to both limited and general partners. Perhaps no other asset class invokes as many strong opinions as private equity...
2021-05-271h 12
TRIUM ConnectsE11 - An Anti-Populist Manifesto: A New Social Contract for the 21st CenturyMy guest for this episode is Baroness Minouche Shafik. Minouche is the Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science and one of the most important thought leaders in the world. She has a glittering career in academics and as a global civil servant. Before becoming the leader of the LSE, Minouche was a Vice-President at the World Bank, a Permanent Secretary for the UK’s Department for International Development, a Deputy Managing Director at the IMF, and a Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. In this episode Minouche and I discuss her new and hugely influe...
2021-04-281h 15
TRIUM ConnectsE10 - Video Games: How Innovation in Technology, Strategy, Process and Artistic Production has Created a Mega-Industry.My guest for this episode is Joost Van Dreunen. Joost is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University. In this podcast we discuss the dynamics of the video games industry and his new book, One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games. In 2020, across the segments of PC, console-based, and mobile games, the industry had revenues of somewhere between $160-170 billion and an annual overall growth rate of around 25%. In addition to its sheer size and speed of growth, the intersection between technological, process and creative innovation makes the indu...
2021-03-301h 08
The VIBE with Kelly CardenasNOAH WILD-VISIONARY EXCELLENCEPassionate entrepreneur. Family business leader. TRIUM EMBA
Managing Director + Chairman of the Management Board at Wild Beauty GmbH
Head of the hairdressing industry committee in the German industry association IKW, in which all major manufacturers are a part of
Started in Wild Beauty back in 2002, since 2004 full-time
Married, living in Frankfurt, Germany. One son, Christopher James 3.5 years old, married to Veronika
2021-02-261h 14
TRIUM ConnectsE9 - Moderna, COVID-19 and the Promise of mRNAMy guest for this episode is Marcello Damiani (TRIUM Class of 2015). Marcello is the Chief Digital and Operational Excellence Officer at Moderna. In this episode we discuss what it was like to be part of the historic success of developing and delivering a vaccine, in the face of a global pandemic, in record time at an efficacy rate that we hardly dared dreamed possible. We discuss what Moderna’s story tells us about the modern bio-tech industry and how its success might be repeated. Next, we talk about how the success of the ‘mRNA platform’ approach to the COVID-19 vaccine may be jus...
2021-02-2558 min
TRIUM ConnectsE8 - Want to Value a Firm? Better Know and Value its StoryMy guest for this episode is Aswath Damodaran. Aswath is a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University (Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education). Calling Aswath a Professor is a bit like calling the Sistine Chapel a church. He is a star in his field and one of the most influential business professors in the world. He has taught on the TRIUM program from its start and is consistently rated as one of its top professors. In this episode we discuss his most recent book, Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Busin...
2021-01-151h 06
TRIUM ConnectsE7 - What Role for Justice in the Creation and Implementation of International Climate AgreementsMy guest for this episode is Robert Falkner. Robert is a TRIUM Academic Director, an Associate Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. Before his time at the LSE, Robert held academic positions at the Universities of Oxford, Kent and Essex, as well as a visiting scholar position at Harvard. In this episode we discuss how moral reasoning and more narrowly defined state self-interest have both impacted the design and implementation of international agreements on climate. We also speculate on what a re...
2020-12-111h 07
TRIUM ConnectsE6 - Wealth is Changing Politics, but Not How You ThinkMy guest for this episode is Andrew Walter. Andrew and I were the first TRIUM co-Academic Directors for the London School of Economics and he has taught political economy for TRIUM every year since its start. He is super smart, very wise and a great friend of TRIUM and myself. He is currently Professor of International Relations in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Melbourne. He was formally a Reader in International Relations at the LSE and a Fellow and University lecturer at Oxford University. Prior to joining academia, he worked for JP Morgan’s inves...
2020-11-021h 18
TRIUM ConnectsE5 - Leadership in a Disrupted WorldMy guest for this episode is Randy White. Randy is the co-Chair of the leadership stream for the EMBA at HEC (Qatar) and a long-time professor of leadership for TRIUM. He is an international thought leader in leadership training and executive coaching with more than 30 years’ experience from all over the world. His is also a member of the Board of the American Psychological Association. A new edition of his (co-written with Philip Hodgson) excellent book, Relax its Only Uncertainty will be released later this month. In this episode, Randy and I discuss the leadership challenges in a world where t...
2020-10-011h 00
TRIUM ConnectsE4 - The Rise and Fall of Competitive Markets: The US is in TroubleMy guest for this episode is Thomas Phillippon, the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at New York University, Stern School of Business. In this podcast we discuss his influential and provocative new book, The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets. In the book, Thomas shows how over the last 20 years, US markets have become less competitive. This has led to poorer service quality, higher consumer prices, lower investment, and higher inequality. At the same time, the reverse has been happening within the EU. How and why this has happened are the subjects of our conversation. I ho...
2020-08-271h 08
TRIUM ConnectsE3 - Embedded Sustainability as a Competitive AdvantageMy guest for this episode is Tensie Whelan, Clinical Professor for Business and Society and the Director of NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business. We start with an examination of the importance of monetizing the benefits of sustainability efforts to successfully embed the practices into the heart of the firms’ strategy and measure of economic performance. We then have a lively discussion on the promises and perils of relying on consumer demand to encourage firms to act in responsible ways. We wrap up with a discussion of the role of the state versus the firm in setting the rule...
2020-08-061h 11
TRIUM ConnectsE2 - Keynes, Cox and the Current CrisisMy guest for this episode is Michael Cox, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the LSE. We start with a discussion of John Maynard Keynes’ book entitled “The Economic Consequences of the Peace” (1919) which has a surprising resonance with current events. We also get Mick’s take on today’s political and governance crisis in the US, what he sees as the future of globalisation and whether the current conflict between the US and China is likely to get better or worse. I hope you enjoy the conversation!Related material:-- Michael...
2020-07-091h 08
TRIUM ConnectsE1 - Making Smart (and not so Smart) DecisionsMy first guest is Olivier Sibony. Olivier is one of the world’s top scholars in the field of behavioural strategy and strategic decision making. What better topics for a time where we are all making choices while trying to work our way through radical uncertainty. I hope you enjoy the conversation!Related material-- Olivier’s new book: You're about to make a terrible mistake https://www.amazon.com/Youre-About-Make-Terrible-Mistake/dp/0316494984 -- Olivier's webinar: Cognitive Biases and Decision-Making in the Covid-19 Crisis - in English (https://youtu.b...
2020-06-171h 02