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On the Cusp: Between Strategy and Ethics

Hosted by Alfred Marcus, Edson Spencer Professor of Strategy and Technological Leadership, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

https://newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profile/f5500881-5c35-4e6c-8b9a-0d7f59bae0d4

These podcasts are good ways for you to keep up and as supplementary material for your courses.

For comments, reactions, or recommendations of books for future episodes, email me at amarcus@umn.edu.

The Most Recent are the Best Yet

The Last Dekrepitzer – Howard Langer

https://newbooksnetwork.com/howard-langer-the-last-dekrepitzer-cresheim-press-2025

Flipping Capo – Seamus McElearney

https://newbooksnetwork.com/seamus-mcelearney-with-barbara-finkelstein-flipping-capo-how-the-fbi-dismantled-the-real-sopranos-chicago-review-press-2025

Money and Promises – Paolo Zanonni

https://newbooksnetwork.com/money-and-promises

The Making of Modern Corporate Finance – Donald Chew

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-making-of-modern-corporate-finance

Saving Ourselves from Big Car – David Obst

https://newbooksnetwork.com/streetwise

The Systems Leader – Robert E. Siegel

Robert E. Siegel, "The Systems Leader: Mastering the Cross-Pressures That Make or Break Today's Companies" (Random House, 2025) - New Books Network

Reaching the Chasm -Ed Amoroso

Edward Amoroso, "Reaching the Chasm: How to Drive Your Early-Stage Start-Up to Scale" (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025) - New Books Network

Unforgiving Places – Jens Ludwig

Jens Ludwig, "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence" (U Chicago Press, 2025) - New Books Network

Capitalism and Crises --Colin Mayer

https://newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profile/f5500881-5c35-4e6c-8b9a-0d7f59bae0d4

Podcasts Organized by Topic

Strategy, Competition, and Advantage

• The Systems Leader: Mastering the Cross-Pressures That Make or Break Today's Companies - Robert E. Siegel
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-systems-leader
• Inside the Competitor's Mindset - John Horn
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/inside-the-competitors-mindset
• Reaching the Chasm: How to Drive Your Early-Stage Start-Up to Scale - Edward Amoroso
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/reaching-the-chasm
• Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems - Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/both-and-thinking-2
• Legal Knowledge in Organizations - Robert C. Bird
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/legal-knowledge-in-organizations-2
• Seeing Around Corners - Rita Gunther McGrath
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/seeing-around-corners-2

Innovation, Technology, and Organizational Change

• The Influence Economy - Maxim Sytch
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/maxim-sytch-the-influence-economy-decoding-supplier-induced-demand-oxford-up-2025
• Digital Innovation Strategy - Aija Leiponen
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/digital-innovation-strategy
• Lead and Disrupt - Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/lead-and-disrupt
• Epic Disruptions - Scott D. Anthony
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/epic-disruptions
• Fatal Abstraction - Darryl Campbell
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/fatal-abstraction

Industry Transformation, Risk, and Reinvention

• Saving Ourselves from Big Car ("Streetwise") - David Obst
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/streetwise
• Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car - Alex Davies
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/alex-davies-driven-the-race-to-create-the-autonomous-car-simon-schuster-2022
• Flipping Capo: How the FBI Dismantled the Real Sopranos - Seamus McElearney with Barbara Finkelstein
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/seamus-mcelearney-with-barbara-finkelstein-flipping-capo-how-the-fbi-dismantled-the-real-sopranos-chicago-review-press-2025
• How Things Are Made - Tim Minshall
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/how-things-are-made

Capitalism, Finance, and Purpose

• Capitalism and Crises - Colin Mayer
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/capitalism-and-crises
• The Making of Modern Corporate Finance - Donald Chew
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-making-of-modern-corporate-finance
• Money and Promises - Paolo Zanonni
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/money-and-promises
• Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street - Megan Tobias Neely
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/hedged-out-2
• The Investment Philosophers - Ethan A. Everett
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-investment-philosophers
• Beyond Shareholder Primacy - Stuart Hart
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/beyond-shareholder-primacy
• Leading the Sustainable Organization - Peter McAteer
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/leading-the-sustainable-organization
• Jewish Giving: Philanthropy and the Shaping of American Jewish Life - Jack Wertheimer
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/jewish-giving

Work, Globalization, and Geopolitics

• The World Is Your Office: How Work from Anywhere Boosts Talent, Productivity, and Innovation - Prithwiraj Choudhury
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/prithwiraj-choudhury-the-world-is-your-office-how-work-from-anywhere-boosts-talent-productivity-and-innovation-harvard-business-review-press-2025
• Crusading for Globalization - Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/crusading-for-globalization
• Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare - Edward Fishman
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/edward-fishman-chokepoints-american-power-in-the-age-of-economic-warfare-portfolio-2025
• The Future of Employment in Africa - Loic De Canniere
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-future-of-employment-in-africa

Technology, Media, and Society

• The Last Dekrepitzer - Howard Langer
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/howard-langer-the-last-dekrepitzer-cresheim-press-2025
• The AI Con - Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-ai-con-2
• Hoodwinked - Mara Einstein
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/hoodwinked
• Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence - Jens Ludwig
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/jens-ludwig-unforgiving-places-the-unexpected-origins-of-american-gun-violence-u-chicago-press-2025