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Does the Future of Sustainability Lie in the Shipping Industry?
Apr 23, 2026
23m 51s
Can Private Equity Be a Force for Good?
Apr 16, 2026
32m 57s
Vote for "Is Business Broken?" in the Webby Awards!
Apr 13, 2026
0m 42s
How is AI Changing Your Relationship With Your Doctor?
Apr 9, 2026
32m 23s
How is Generative AI Reshaping Hollywood?
Apr 2, 2026
28m 41s
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| 4/23/26 | Does the Future of Sustainability Lie in the Shipping Industry? | Ocean shipping carries close to 90% of global trade, and it accounts for about 3% of global emissions. The International Maritime Organization has set ambitious targets to reduce those by 20% by 2030, by 70% by 2040, and reach net zero by 2050. Ships are expensive and pay for themselves over decades, and the technology for green fuels is still developing. What are you supposed to do if you're a shipping company? Do you invest early and take on the risk? Do you drag your feet? And why should we be thinking about the shipping industry in the first place? Host Curt Nickisch unpacks this question and more with Ravi K. Mehrotra and Amulya Mohapatra from the Foresight Group; Chris Wiernicki, independent industry consultant and the former Chair and CEO of the American Bureau of Shipping; Valerie Thomas, professor of industrial engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology; and Justin Ren, Associate Professor of Operations and Technology Management at BU Questrom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 23m 51s | ||||||
| 4/16/26 | Can Private Equity Be a Force for Good? | We are living through a massive migration of wealth. More and more capital is leaving public markets and flowing into private equity. There's even a growing push to let everyday investors put their retirement savings into private markets. But as private equity's footprint expands, so does the debate over who actually benefits. Has private equity made the economy more efficient, innovative, and productive — or has it become a system for extracting wealth at the expense of workers, consumers, and communities? Can private equity be a force for good? And if this is where the money is flowing, what rules and safeguards do we actually need? Host Curt Nickisch unpacks this question and more with Danny Wadhwani, Private Equity investor and Co-founder at ThinkLite; Gretchen Morgenson, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist from NBC News; and Thomas Wollmann, Associate Professor in Markets, Public Policy, & Law at Boston University Questrom School of Business. Related reading: Painful Bargaining: Evidence from Anesthesia Rollups Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 32m 57s | ||||||
| 4/13/26 | Vote for "Is Business Broken?" in the Webby Awards! | Exciting news! Is Business Broken? has been nominated for a Webby Award in the Business category! We couldn't be prouder of all of our listeners who helped make this possible. And with this nomination, we're up for a People's Voice award. We’d be so grateful if you’d take a moment to vote for us: https://wbby.co/57452N. The voting period ends this Thursday, April 16th. Thank you so much! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 0m 42s | ||||||
| 4/9/26 | How is AI Changing Your Relationship With Your Doctor? | AI is already making its way into healthcare, from helping doctors write notes to interpreting medical images and managing growing amounts of patient data. As one of the fastest-growing industries in the U.S., healthcare is quickly becoming a major testing ground for these tools. As tech giants roll out health-focused chatbots and tools, patients and providers face big questions: Is AI giving doctors back the time and presence that the business of medicine stripped away? Or will it become another lever for consolidation and control in a care system that doesn’t always reward real value? Host Curt Nickisch unpacks this question and more with cardiologist and author Eric Topol, anesthesiologist and pain physician Sunny Jha, Microsoft Health Futures principal researcher Michael Hansen, and BU Questrom professor Carey Morewedge. Related readings: AI chatbots versus human healthcare professionals: a systematic review and meta-analysis of empathy in patient care ChatGPT Health performance in a structured test of triage recommendations Protecting Physicians From AI Impostors | Think Global Health GenAI and the psychology of work Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 32m 23s | ||||||
| 4/2/26 | How is Generative AI Reshaping Hollywood? | Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving into Hollywood, from visual effects and editing to script development and production workflows. In the realms of creative industries, the question looms large: Is AI a complement to human creativity, or is it a substitute that may eventually replace it? Host Curt Nickisch unpacks this question and more with BU Questrom professor Carey Morewedge, Roma Murphy, animation writer and co-chair of the AI committee at the Animation Guild, Tim Herrold, a visual effects artist and editor, and Erik Barmack, CEO of Wild Sheep Content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 28m 41s | ||||||
| 3/26/26 | Would You Trust a Self-Driving Car? | Self-driving cars are logging millions of miles in a growing number of U.S. cities. Waymo now wants to test its newest robotaxis on Boston’s narrow streets, rotaries, and snowy roads. But are drivers ready to hand over the wheel to AI? What makes people trust or reject a technology that asks them to give up control? And what kind of future are we really driving toward? Host Curt Nickisch unpacks these questions and more with BU Questrom professor Carey Morewedge, entrepreneur Basak Ozer, AAA Northeast spokesperson Mark Schieldrop, and App Drivers’ Union leader Mike Vartabedian. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 29m 15s | ||||||
| 3/12/26 | Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran on Tariffs, Inflation, and Deregulation | In recent years, the Federal Reserve has faced down enormous economic challenges: rising inflation, new trade policies, a pandemic, and a weaker labor market. So how much are tariffs really driving price increases? How should we measure inflation in a modern economy? And how has bank regulation reshaped the Fed’s balance sheet and the role it plays? At a recent live event, Host Curt Nickisch sits down with Stephen Miran, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Previously, Governor Miran chaired the Council of Economic Advisers, where he helped develop much of President Trump’s trade policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 31m 29s | ||||||
| 11/20/25 | 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 efficiency. But now that playbook is being rewritten by trade wars, sanctions, and supply chain disruptions.So how do boards navigate a landscape where geopolitical risk is the new normal, and where every decision reverberates across shifting borders, markets, and social expectations?At a recent live event, Host Curt Nickisch sits down with: Ruth Aguilera, Brodsky Trustee Professor in Corporate Governance at Northeastern University; Kevin McGovern, President of the New England chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors; and Roy Shapira, Professor of Law at Reichman University and visiting fellow at the Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute for Business Markets and Society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 43m 27s | ||||||
| 11/13/25 | 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 shifting.Who truly gets to compete? What keeps markets open and innovative? And how are new technologies testing the limits of rules written for another era?Today's guests are BU Questrom Professors Dionne Lomax and Cathy Fazio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 28m 54s | ||||||
| 11/6/25 | 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 Questrom Visiting Professor Roy Shapira. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 28m 51s | ||||||
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| 10/30/25 | 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 powerful unspoken rules: don’t copy, don’t steal—even when you legally can.What does it take to sustain trust and collaboration when regulation isn’t there to keep everyone in line?To discuss, host Curt Nickisch invites to the show Giada Di Stefano, a professor of strategy at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy; and Andy King, Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor in Strategy & Innovation at BU Questrom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 24m 59s | ||||||
| 10/23/25 | 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 should government intervene in the public interest, and also companies getting together to set their own rules? When does that cross into antitrust territory and become collusion? Host Curt Nickisch speaks to BU Questrom Professor Tim Simcoe and Jonathan Kanter, former Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division in the Biden Administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 28m 08s | ||||||
| 10/16/25 | 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, when it doesn't, and what's at stake for society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 33m 33s | ||||||
| 10/3/25 | 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 nomination, we're up for a Listener's Choice award. We’d be so grateful if you’d take a moment to vote for us: Please vote here. Thank you so much! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 0m 54s | ||||||
| 7/3/25 | 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 asking: How do we strike the balance between innovation and safety, between competition and concentration, between policy and industry regulation?At a live event as part of the WBUR Festival, host Curt Nickisch speaks to:Divya Sridhar - Vice President, Global Privacy Division & Privacy Operations, BBB National ProgramsAsu Ozdaglar - Department Head, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Deputy Dean, MIT Schwarzman College of ComputingAndrei Hagiu – Professor of Information Systems, Boston University Questrom School of BusinessSen. Barry Finegold - State Senator, Essex and Middlesex Counties, MA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 38m 13s | ||||||
| 6/26/25 | 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 to student host Grant Corbett, who chats with JD Chesloff, President & CEO of the Massachusetts Business Round Table about how the current political environment is impacting businesses on the ground. Special thanks to the Raif Dinçkök Student Forum at the Mehrotra Institute for supporting this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 20m 29s | ||||||
| 5/8/25 | 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 Nickisch spoke to Stuart Hart, Professor in Residence at the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, and the author of Beyond Shareholder Primacy: Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future; Anthony Allot, Board Chair and former CEO of Silgan Holdings Corporation; Aneliya Crawford, Head of ESG Advisory at UBS; and Andrew King, Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor in Strategy & Innovation at BU Questrom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 35m 16s | ||||||
| 4/10/25 | 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. But what could be done about that? Is there a way to address these anti-competitive issues? Host Curt Nickisch talks potential solutions with Florian Ederer, Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor in Markets, Public Policy & Law at BU Questrom; Glen Weyl, founder of the RadicalxChange Foundation and the Plurality Institute; and Fiona Scott Morton, Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics at the Yale School of Management. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 36m 52s | ||||||
| 3/27/25 | 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 their drive to innovate? This is not a thought experiment. It’s real and widespread—a phenomenon known as common ownership. Is common ownership just smart investing, or is it reducing competition and driving up costs? And what, if anything, should be done about it? To explain, host Curt Nickisch speaks to Florian Ederer, Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor in Markets, Public Policy & Law at BU Questrom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 34m 04s | ||||||
| 3/20/25 | 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 barriers often stand in the way. Are financial incentives in this regulated market holding innovation back? If so, how badly? What would it take to realign them? Today, host Curt Nickisch speaks to Jim Rebitzer Professor, Markets, Public Policy & Law, Questrom School of Business, and his brother Bob Rebitzer, National Advisor at Manatt Health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 36m 40s | ||||||
| 3/13/25 | 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 compensation, and how can companies balance rewarding top leaders while keeping employees engaged and valued? Today, we explore how pay structures shape workplace culture, trust, and motivation—and what can be done to make them feel fairer. Host Curt Nickisch speaks to Charlie Tharp, Professor of the Practice at BU Questrom School of Business and Peter Fasolo, Former CHRO at Johnson & Johnson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 21m 58s | ||||||
| 3/6/25 | 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 gotten too complex? And are CEOs being fairly rewarded — or punished — for the risks they take? Host Curt Nickisch is joined by BU Questrom Professors Ana Albuquerque and Charlie Tharp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 30m 56s | ||||||
| 2/27/25 | 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 companies, and how does this affect CEO pay? Host Curt Nickisch chats with Bob McCormick, Executive Director at the Council of Institutional Investors, and Charlie Tharp, Professor of the Practice at Boston University Questrom School of Business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 25m 57s | ||||||
| 2/20/25 | 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 issues and more with Charles Tharp, Professor of the Practice at the Questrom School of Business and former CEO and founding member of the Center On Executive Compensation in Washington D.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 31m 09s | ||||||
| 11/7/24 | Regulating Platforms & Speech in an Age of Fake News | How do we reconcile the protection of free speech with the need to prevent harmful misinformation from spreading online? Is it even possible to strike a balance? Host Curt Nickisch speaks to Marshall Van Alstyne, the Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor in Information Systems at Boston University Questrom School of Business; Nadine Strossen, Professor of Law at New York Law School and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union; and Michael Masnik, CEO and Founder of Copia Institute and its publication Techdirt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 44m 30s | ||||||
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