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unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc

unSILOed is a series of interdisciplinary conversations that inspire new ways of thinking about our world. Our goal is to build a community of lifelong learners addicted to curiosity and the pursuit of insight about themselves and the world around them.*unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*

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00:53:28

Adaptive Spaces: Creating Agile Teams and Maximizing...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2021/07/05

In today's business world, where everything happens at super speed, how does a company survive these accelerated changes? Author of the book Adaptive Space and Amazon Web Services Vice President for talent and Development, Michael Arena, discusses how creating Adaptive Spaces in the workplace can help build agile teams. Over the years, agility has been one of the keys that help companies survive the rapidly changing market.Listen to his conversation with host Greg LaBlanc about finding the right

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00:49:09

Arguments, Conversations, and Social Learning: Why...

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2021/07/02

Humans have intuitive and reflective beliefs. Often, these affect how we weigh and process our arguments and views. Listen to Hugo Mercier, Cognitive Scientist and Author of Not Born Yesterday, as he shares provocative findings from his books. In this episode, he and host Greg LaBlanc have fascinating conversations on what kind of environments shape our biases and what we choose to believe in. Don't miss their discussion on when and how to assess good and bad arguments to better our lives. Finally,

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00:44:43

Cents and Sensibility: The Marriage Between Economics...

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2021/06/28

What are the benefits of interdisciplinary research for educators in terms of gaining a deeper understanding of the larger issues that affect their field? The noted literary critic Gary Saul Morson and leading economist Morton Schapiro discuss how humanities, especially literature, offer economists ways to make their models more human, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and fair. Their book Cents And Sensibility provided critical insights and lessons during this

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00:53:17

Blockchain: Understanding Decentralized Governance...

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2021/06/23

Despite its decentralized governance and vulnerability, why does Blockchain excite even the most powerful companies and governments? Associate Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at Wharton, Author, and Founder of Supernova Group Consulting Firm, Kevin Werbach dives into the details of his book, The Blockchain And The New Architecture Of Trust.Listen as he discusses with host Greg LaBlanc how we can put ourselves in the position of confident vulnerability and how the different trust

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00:50:03

How Do You Foster Discovery Driven Growth and a...

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2021/06/21

How do companies and firms become unstuck to pursue sustainable competitive advantage? Best-selling author, globally renowned strategic advisor, and Columbia Professor, Rita McGrath has an in-depth conversation with host Greg LaBlanc on sustaining a culture of innovation and strategy. Their chat revolved around her two books: The End Of The Competitive Advantage And Discovery-Driven Growth. The episode covers interesting points on how to avoid having a whipsaw reaction when major external events

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00:46:50

Prediction Machines: Understanding How AI Impacts our...

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2021/06/18

How can artificial intelligence benefit your business? Ajay Agrawal, Author and Geoffrey Taber Chair of Rotman talks about A.I. and how it generates predictions. In this episode, Ajay and Greg unpack the book Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics Of Artificial Intelligence.The episode focused on how A.I. predictions require enough data. As more data becomes available, it becomes easier to find critical relationships, leading to better forecasts. In the past, data analytics was limited to the

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00:54:05

Changemaker: Why Creating Hubs for Academic and...

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2021/06/16

What are the steps to fostering collaboration in the academe, firms, industries, and organizations? Professor Richard Lyons, UC Berkeley's Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer, talks about his new position and new learnings. He discusses how the university is working to create an interface zone where ideas can be co-developed into commercial applications.Hear how the university's Changemaker project encourages critical thinking, collaboration, and communication as essential factors in

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00:56:19

Mind in Motion: Understanding How Action Shapes...

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2021/06/15

Is Venice east or west of Naples? Our perception of an environment is often influenced by how we categorize things by proximity. Often, we associate words with the way humans think, but we tend to overlook actions and movements. Language is important, but pictures are better remembered than words. In this episode, Stanford Professor and member of the governing board of the International Union of Psychological Science, Barbara Tversky discusses how gestures, motion, scenes, and events become the

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00:48:50

Dynamic Capabilities: Understanding Your Firm’s Core...

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2021/06/11

When markets are dynamic, it’s important that firms become dynamic too. Listening and understanding what's going on in the environment, outlining what the opportunities are, what the threats are is extremely important. Host Greg LaBlanc and Organizational Economist, David Teece unpack his Dynamic Capabilities Framework.In this episode, David and Greg tackle the importance of making sense of the organization’s learning, formulating a view of what this means for your investment behavior, quickly

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00:51:02

What Open Innovation Really Means feat. Henry Chesbrough

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2021/06/09

What is the extent to which good fencing makes good neighbors? How much of your innovation process should you make public? Henry Chesbrough, the developer of the term Open Innovation, discusses open innovation processes in practice. The author provides examples from companies like Microsoft, AWS, and P&G using open innovation within the company.During his discussion with Greg La Blanc, he delved into concepts on how companies can maintain both exploitation and exploration through innovation. This

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01:12:16

Alloparenting and Allomothers: Learning How to Parent...

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2021/06/07

Women from different species, including humans, who had better help and support have better chances of survival. What can we learn from mother nature? Sarah B. Hrdy professor emerita at the University of California Davis, and Associate in the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at Harvard talks about her books: Mothers And Others, The Woman That Never Evolved, and Mother Nature.Listen to Greg and Sarah as they discuss allomotherhood and alloparenting, foundational concepts that ensured humans

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00:53:55

Perfectly Confident and Good Judgment: Your Keys to...

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2021/06/04

Can overconfidence harm you? Despite popular belief, psychologists and experts state that overconfidence can also lead to failure. Avoiding a different perspective can limit your judgment. How much confidence is good? How do you make sure you're not underconfident?Don Moore, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Berkeley Haas talks about his book called Perfectly Confident: How To Calibrate Your Decisions Wisely. Together with host Greg, they unpack ways people can weigh their options properly

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01:00:18

Why We Work: Breaking Down the Psychological and...

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2021/06/02

What happens when you confine an animal in a box with nothing to do but push a lever to disperse food? According to a study by the American psychologist B.F. Skinner, he discovered that the caged animal would most likely press the lever vigorously. How does this relate to human work environments?Barry Schwartz, psychologist, author, and professor analyzes and dissects factors that affect people's motivation for satisfactory work in his book entitled Why We Work. Barry and host Greg LaBlanc explore

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00:37:39

The Lessons They Didn’t Teach You in Business School...

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2021/05/31

Taking a one-sided approach to entrepreneurship and business won't work. The key to success in business is to put different skill sets from your toolbox into play. But how do you apply that in real life when a lot of things happen all at the same time? Are there things that business school didn’t teach you?Jay Barney, Presidential Professor of Strategic Management, and Pierre Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business unpacks his new novel and

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00:48:18

Understanding Carry Trades feat. Kevin Coldiron

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2021/05/28

What clues can carry trading give us about the past two decades of international economic downturns?Kevin Coldiron is a Lecturer at UC Berkeley's Haas Business School. He’s also the is the co-owner of Algert Coldiron Investors. After 25 years in quantitative finance, Coldiron has a new book called The Rise Of Carry: The Dangerous Consequences Of Volatility Suppression And The New Financial Order Of Decaying Growth And Recurring Crisis.In this episode, we’ll hear more about the four characteristics

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00:53:28

Analyzing the Meaning of “Free Speech” feat. Stanley...

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2021/05/26

How does the First Amendment really work? Why is it important to understand the difference between free speech and free action? What role, if any, should social media companies like Twitter or Facebook play in policing the online speech?Stanley Fish is a literary theorist, legal scholar, and New York Times best-selling author. He is also a professor of law at Florida International University and a visiting professor of law at the Cardozo School of Law. He explores all of these questions in his most

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00:50:34

Markets, Risk, and Human Interaction feat. Richard...

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2021/05/24

A Demon Of Our Own Design is a provocative title for a first book. But that's just the kind of work Richard Bookstaber does.Richard has been a practitioner in the world of finance for many years. He is currently the Head of Risk at Fabric RQ, and previously worked at Bridgewater, Morgan Stanley, Solomon brothers, and was the Chief Risk Officer at the University of California.These roles have put him at the center of some of the critical crises of the last three decades – working with portfolio

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00:57:36

The Value of Storytelling in Economics featl. Charles...

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2021/05/21

Publishing a book with no graphs is quite the feat in the world of economics. But that’s part of Charles Wheelan’s mission: using storytelling to get his point across.In this episode, Charles Wheelan joins host Greg LaBlanc. Charles is a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College and teaches courses on education policy, health care, tax policy, income inequality, and related topics. He is also the author of numerous books, including Naked Money, Naked

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00:57:54

The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic feat. Joshua Gans

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2021/05/19

Stanford health economics professor Jay Bhattacharya has said that the coronavirus is one of the biggest failures of the economics profession. And whether or not that’s an exaggeration, it’s true many economics have stayed quiet throughout the course of this virus. But not Joshua Gans.Joshua Gans is a Professor of Strategic Management and holder of the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto (with a

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00:41:39

Pulling Back the Curtain on Venture Capital feat....

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2021/05/17

In 2020, venture capitalists invested about $150 billion into U.S. start-ups, according to the data company, Crunchbase. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, local startups in Southern California are securing more investment dollars in a single quarter than they used to get in an entire calendar year.This surge of capital is not necessarily a new trend, but it has shifted power from the investors to the entrepreneurs. Perhaps no one knows this better than Scott Kupor. The entrepreneur turned

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