Is Business Broken? Podcast
1) Are Boardrooms Ready for the New Geopolitical Reality?
Today's episode tackles a challenge facing boardrooms right now: the intersection of geopolitics and corporate governance. For decades, companies followed a playbook built on global integration and ef...Show More
2) What Does Antitrust Mean in 2025?
At its core, antitrust is about reining in concentrated power. But in a world where digital platforms shape our choices and markets evolve, the boundaries of competition and fairness seem to be shifti...Show More
3) Why Should We Care About Corporate Governance?
How might corporate governance shape business decisions, trust, and society at large? In this special student-hosted episode of Is Business Broken?, BU Questrom Undergrad Grant Corbett speaks with BU ...Show More
4) Why Don't Restaurants Steal Recipes?
Today, we're diving into a fascinating corner of self-regulation—one that doesn't rely on formal rules or legal protections, but instead on norms. In industries like fashion and fine dining, there are...Show More
5) When Does Self Regulation Become Collusion?
Last week's show introduced self-regulation, the practice of businesses, setting their own guardrails without government, but what are the limits to private actors policing themselves?At what point sh...Show More
6) What Happens When Business Regulates Itself?
What happens when business regulates itself, without government? Enter self regulation. Host Curt Nickisch speaks to BU Questrom Professors Andy King and Tim Simcoe about when self regulation works, ...Show More
7) Vote for "Is Business Broken?" in the Signal Awards!
Exciting news! Is Business Broken? has been nominated for a Signal Award in the Business category! We couldn't be more proud of all of our listeners who helped make this possible. And with this nomi...Show More
8) The High Stakes of the AI Economy, Live from the WBUR Festival
AI promises massive gains in productivity and a flourishing of goods and services—but also poses consequences for jobs, corporate power, and society. There will be winners and losers. Today, we're ask...Show More
9) The Economic Anxiety of a Global Trade Shift
One of the goals of the Mehrotra Institute is to educate, not just through research or in the classroom, but by creating real-world learning opportunities.So, for this episode, we're handing the mic t...Show More
10) How Should Companies Balance Short-Term Pressures with Long-Term Interests?
How should companies balance short-term pressures with long-term interests?Can they do both—and if so, how? That’s the question we posed at a live event that BU Questrom held in April. Host Curt Nic...Show More