Is Business Broken? Podcast
1) 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
2) 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
3) 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
4) How to Combat Common Ownership
Last episode introduced the concept of common ownership. That’s where major investors buy significant stakes across competing firms, which can lower competition, raise prices, and affect innovation. B...Show More
5) What Happens When the Same Investors Own Competing Companies?
When the same big investors buy stakes in multiple competing companies, are those firms still competitors? When they practically have the same owner, do they set their prices differently? Do they lose...Show More
6) Why is Healthcare Not Better and Cheaper?
Innovation is what drives progress—but in healthcare, progress can feel frustratingly slow. New treatments, technologies, and approaches have the potential to save lives and reduce costs, yet systemic...Show More
7) How Do Employees Feel about Executive Compensation?
As we’ve discussed these last few episodes, there’s a lot that goes into how executives get paid—but what about the people working beneath those executives? How do employees feel about executive compe...Show More
8) Are CEOS Paid Just For Luck?
For our next conversation on executive compensation, we’re exploring some of the big questions researchers are tackling today. Like: How much of CEO pay is driven by luck? Have these pay packages gott...Show More
9) How Institutional Investors Influence Executive Pay
Today's episode dives into the voice that shareholders have and how executives are paid, including large institutional shareholders. What does that relationship look like between investors and compani...Show More
10) Why are Executives Paid So Much?
Why and how did CEO paychecks become so massive and divisive? Who decides what leaders are worth? And what’s the ripple effect on companies, workers, and the economy? Host Curt Nickisch unpacks these...Show More