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Liz Paushter, Executive Director of the Badavas Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning at Bentley University, discusses her fascinating work, “Play-Based Learning and Faculty Development: Transforming Teaching Excellence.”

She explains how her play-based approach to faculty development began with a moment of honesty in a department meeting: while faculty worried that students were afraid to fail, a colleague challenged the group to ask, “How are we any different?” She then introduced a quick, constraint-based number game that immediately shifted the room faculty laughed, made mistakes openly, and even celebrated small failures, revealing how play can build psychological safety and unlock creativity in adult learners. From there, Liz connects play to learning science and adult learning theory, arguing that curiosity sits at the center of innovation and that playful, community-based experiences help educators take risks, reflect, and try new teaching practices with greater confidence.

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Dr. Javiera Barandiarán, Associate Professor in the Global Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, shares key insights from her book, “Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium.”

In this episode, Dr. Javiera Barandiarán, Associate Professor in the Global Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, unpacks the central arguments of her book Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium by showing how lithium is never “just” a resource, but something whose meaning, measurement, and governance are shaped by politics, markets, and competing visions of the future. Drawing on research that began with student activism in Chile and deep archival work on state–industry partnerships, she explains lithium’s “ontological fluidity,” the contested nature of reserve estimates, and the way resource nationalism operates in both Chile and the United States. She then shifts the frame from a narrow question of supply (“Is there enough lithium?”) to a life-centered question about ecological limits, extinction, and exhaustion in places like the Atacama Desert, while critiquing today’s EV-led “transition” as still highly extractive.

The conversation closes with pathways forward, rights of nature, meaningful mining no-go zones, reforming environmental impact assessments, and prioritizing reduction and reuse arguing that real climate action must center justice, ecosystems, and long-term viability rather than only technological substitution.

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Dr. Mark Huselid, Distinguished Professor of Workforce Analytics and Director of the Center for Workforce Analytics at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, shares key insights from his acclaimed books, “The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance.”

He explains why many common HR metrics (like time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, and training hours) tend to measure transactions rather than talent outcomes, and how that can unintentionally optimize the wrong behaviors. The discussion then moves to using a “strategy map” to make the causal chain explicit, how today’s talent investments drive on-the-job behaviors, which shape customer outcomes and ultimately financial results while also urging leaders to invest disproportionately in “A positions,” the roles with the greatest performance variance and the biggest impact on strategy execution. Finally, he emphasizes that HR’s highest-value contribution is integrated system design (selection, performance management, development, and rewards working together), because employees respond to the whole system not isolated HR practices or benchmarked checklists.

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Dr. Tucker Marion and Dr. Sebastian Fixson discuss their book, “The Innovation Navigator: Transforming Your Organization in the Era of AI.”

In this episode of Business Talk, host Deepak Bhatt speaks with innovation scholars Dr. Tucker J. Marion (Northeastern University) and Dr. Sebastian Fixson (Babson College) about their expanded-edition book, The Innovation Navigator: Transforming Your Organization in the Era of AI. Drawing on more than a decade of research, they unpack their “Four Innovation Modes” framework, Specialist, Venture, Community, and Network organized around two core dimensions: whether innovation happens inside or across organizational boundaries, and whether incentives are formal or informal. The conversation positions AI as a “turbocharger” that accelerates existing innovation work (from design and collaboration to knowledge creation) while leaving the fundamentally social nature of innovation strategy, incentives, and collaboration at the center of sustainable success. They also highlight practical lessons and cases (including examples like Apple and LEGO, plus AI-enabled workflow shifts in design and R&D) to show why resilient organizations intentionally blend multiple modes, measure progress closer to the work itself, and build learning systems that help teams adopt tools with sound judgment.

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Professor Tammy Madsen, W.M. Keck Foundation Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, shares insights from her book, “Co-Innovation Platforms: A Playbook for Enabling Innovation and Ecosystem Growth.”

Professor Tammy Madsen, W.M. Keck Foundation Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, explains why today’s organizations can’t rely on closed, linear innovation pipelines when value creation depends on many interdependent players evolving together. Drawing on her work on co-innovation platforms, she describes a strategic shift from optimizing internal resources to enabling external interactions, from focusing only on customer value to advancing ecosystem value, and from resource control to resource orchestration. She also highlights practical enablers, such as designing “permeable” IP (protect the core while opening complementary layers), simplifying contracts to reduce friction, and building orchestration leadership that sets direction, fosters collaboration norms, enables joint learning, and strengthens trust across diverse partners.

Finally, she emphasizes that ecosystem health matters more than surface-level activity, and that edge innovators and diverse complementers often reveal the next growth vector for the entire ecosystem.

This podcast is brought to you by Global Management Consultancy. For more information, please visit www.globalmanagementconsultancy.com.

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