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Featuring Curtis Ravenel, a pioneer at the intersection of business and sustainability. Hosted by MBA candidates Sarah Adams and Priscilla Markin, this episode explores Curtis's career journey, from planned goals and serendipitous opportunities to a venture in the brewpub business that honed his financial acumen. Curtis shares pivotal moments at Bloomberg where he embraced a leadership role in sustainability, turning sustainable practices into revenue-generating strategies. He also reflects on handling failure, the value of discipline, and the importance of loving what you do to achieve success.

This video profiles former NASA Flight Director Courtenay McMillan, who recently served as the Manager of Mission Integration & Operations for the International Space Station (ISS) program. The video explores the importance of leaders being open to rethinking decisions when new data is presented and how leaders manage uncertainty and crises.

Featuring Brian Trelstad, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School and Partner at Bridges Fund Management. Hosted by MBA candidates, Matt Rappaport and Megan Putman, this episode explores the role of competition, gamification, and social entrepreneurship in team dynamics and growth.

Featuring Dean James Steinberg, former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton and current dean of the SAIS school at Johns Hopkins University. Hosted by MBA candidates Sujit Koppula, Mike Zipperer, and Sara Bliden, this episode explores leadership across government and academia, decision-making contrasts, and the impact of evolving technology.

Organizations committed to inclusivity and hearing varied opinions should be aware that upwardly mobile individuals in socially diverse professional environments, are often faced with hurdles to jump, for their views to be heard and heeded. Featuring CIL Faculty Affiliate Sean Martin

When individuals with strong moral character fill positions of prominence in their peer networks, they can have a positive influence on the moral awareness of others. These ‘moral beacons’ can help support a culture of ethical leadership, decision making, and behavior. Featuring CIL Core Faculty Erik Helzer.

Leading in an ethical way is more than simply ‘doing the right thing.’ Increasingly, ethical leadership is correlated with team performance—for instance, as this study shows, an ethically led team is better placed to bounce back from a period of poor performance. Featuring CIL Faculty Affiliate Sean Martin

Contrasting with an underrepresentation of women in other top rank senior roles, new analysis reveals an encouraging increase in female CHROs—which may help us better understand decisions relating to gender diversity, or lack of it, at the top of organizations. Featuring CIL Core Faculty Rick Smith

Analysis of the South Korean healthcare system’s response during the COVID-19 pandemic calls for a reimagination of crisis management as a creative process—with dynamic negotiation and improvisation enabling rapid improvement of response capabilities, bringing a system to the ‘at the edge of chaos.’ Featuring CIL Core Faculty Suntae Kim

A new, comprehensive analysis of communication research data reveals much about the inner workings, impact, and outcomes of good and bad leadership communication. Featuring CIL Core Faculty Cassandra Chambers

If sleeplessness stimulates ADHD-like tendencies, which in turn can drive entrepreneurial venturing—what does this mean for people thinking of founding or investing in new businesses? Featuring CIL Core Faculty Brian Gunia

CIL Core Faculty Brian Gunia joined colleagues in reviewing the economic impact of poor sleep in the workplace, a key challenge facing leaders in all industries, in an article in the journal PharmacoEconomics.