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Ep 227. Christine Porath: Mastering Community

Ep 227. Christine Porath: Mastering Community

Christine Porath is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and the author of Mastering Civility, The Cost of Bad Behavior. Stew talks with Christine about her most recent book, Mastering Community: The Surprising Ways Coming Together Moves Us from Surviving to Thriving and her research on the waning of community and effective ways of reweaving the fabric that holds our society together…[Click for more]

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Ep 226. Gianna Driver: From Women's Shelter to Chief Human Resources Officer

Ep 226. Gianna Driver: From Women's Shelter to Chief Human Resources Officer

Gianna Driver is Chief Human Resources Officer at Exabeam who was a student in Stew’s Total Leadership class 20 years ago. After spending five years running a global fair trade organization, she went on to build a highly successful career in human resources and recently started a new job at a company that fights cybercrime. Stew talks with Gianna about how her early life led her to want to have an impact through her work on valuing the humanity in each and every one of us…[Click for more]

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Ep 112. Rebecca Henderson: Reimagining Capitalism

Ep 112. Rebecca Henderson: Reimagining Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, where she has a joint appointment at the Harvard Business School. Her research explores the degree to which the private sector can play a major role in building a more sustainable economy, focusing particularly on the relationships between organizational purpose and innovation and productivity in high performance organizations. She teaches Reimagining Capitalism: Business & the Big Problems at Harvard, a course that has grown from 28 students to over 300, and is under contract for a book tentatively titled “Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire.” Why is she hopeful…[Click for more]

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