The Parlor Room
Join host and Harvard Business School Online Creative Director Chris Linnane as he sits down with HBS faculty to discuss business education in a way that’s both entertaining and insightful. The Parlor Room is your key to breaking down academic theory without sacrificing depth—all while gaining practical takeaways for navigating the business world.
Episodes
February 24, 2025 • 21 mins
In The Parlor Room's season two finale, host Chris Linnane shares his favorite questions and answers from his conversations with Harvard Business School faculty, including Christina Wallace, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Amy Edmondson, Sunil Gupta, V.G. Narayanan, Nancy Koehn, and Anthony Mayo.
Tune in for their insights into marketing, the future of work, psychological safety, and more.
Catch up on Season 2 of The Parlor Room:
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February 10, 2025 • 23 mins
In this second special episode of season two bonus content, host Chris Linnane shares exclusive, never-before-heard clips from his conversations with Harvard Business School faculty members.
Tune in to hear Amy Edmondson, Anthony Mayo, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Nancy Koehn discuss leadership, strategy, and resilience.
Amy Edmondson on Building High-Performing Teams: https://hbs.me/ade6yb9d
Anthony Mayo on What Makes an Effecti...
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January 27, 2025 • 17 mins
In this special episode featuring season two bonus content, host Chris Linnane shares exclusive, unaired clips from his conversations with Harvard Business School faculty members on the topic of AI and navigating the future of the workplace.
Tune in to hear from Sunil Gupta on marketing strategies, Anthony Mayo on effective leadership, Christina Wallace on entrepreneurial mindset, Felix Oberholzer-Gee on business strategy, and V....
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January 13, 2025 • 31 mins
In this episode of The Parlor Room podcast, host Chris Linnane sits down with Harvard Business School Professor V.G. Narayanan, senior associate dean for HBS Online and Executive Education, an expert in financial accounting, to explore the essential role of financial statements in the business world. They discuss how understanding business dynamics makes you a better accountant, the critical importance of financial statements as a ...
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December 16, 2024 • 37 mins
In this episode of The Parlor Room podcast, host Chris Linnane sits down with Harvard Business School Professor Nancy Koehn, an expert in crisis leadership, to discuss how crisis brings out extraordinary leadership, highlighting key characteristics like self-awareness, emotional intelligence, ambition, and courage. They explore how empathy inspires and motivates, emphasizing that great leadership comes in all shapes and sizes.
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December 2, 2024 • 25 mins
In this episode of The Parlor Room podcast, Chris sits down with Harvard Business School Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee, an expert in strategic management, to explore key frameworks and concepts in business strategy. They discuss disruptive innovation, shifting industry dynamics, and the importance of strategic flexibility. Oberholzer-Gee also shares insightful examples of how today’s leading companies create value.
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Felix O...
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November 18, 2024 • 29 mins
In this episode of The Parlor Room podcast, Chris sits down with startup advisor, founder, and Harvard Business School Professor Christina Wallace to discuss the critical role of building an entrepreneurial mindset. Wallace breaks down the distinctions between traditional marketing and entrepreneurial marketing, illustrating how mindset plays a pivotal role. She delves into the core principles of entrepreneurial marketing, emphasiz...
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November 4, 2024 • 27 mins
In this episode of The Parlor Room podcast, Chris sits down with Harvard Business School Professor Anthony Mayo, who offers expert insights into leadership skills and organizational change. Mayo discusses how individual leaders and companies can thrive in dynamic environments, emphasizing the qualities that set great leaders apart: emotional intelligence, high standards, empathy, and resilience.
Aimed at those aspiring to lead or...
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October 21, 2024 • 32 mins
In this episode of The Parlor Room podcast, Chris sits down with renowned
marketing expert and Harvard Business School Professor Sunil Gupta to explore digital
marketing’s transformative power. Gupta delves into data analytics’ critical
role in shaping effective marketing strategies, highlighting how to use
insights to gain a competitive edge. He also breaks down the nuances of high-
and low-involvement products and how understandi...
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October 7, 2024 • 33 mins
As mentioned in Poets&Quants, The Parlor Room's second season kicks off with Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson. In this episode, she sits down with host Chris Linnane to delve into the concept of "teaming" and how organizations can foster it successfully through clear communication, psychological safety, and intelligent failure.
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Amy Edmondson, CLIMB Faculty Chair, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management...
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In this special bonus episode of The Parlor Room—recorded live at HBS Online's Connext 2024 conference—host Chris Linnane sits down with Jen Stave, launch director of Harvard’s Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute. They discuss artificial intelligence's transformative impact across industries, the need for global regulation, and the importance of making AI technologies accessible and affordable. This episode is a must-listen if you ...
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July 9, 2024 • 58 mins
Today, we’re sharing a special episode of Think Big, Buy Small, a new podcast from our friends at Harvard Business School.
Think Big, Buy Small explores an innovative approach to entrepreneurship: acquisition entrepreneurship, with conversations exploring how to buy your own business, be your own boss, and get the financial benefits of your efforts through the approach of entrepreneurship through acquisition—like this episode, wh...
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March 11, 2024 • 25 mins
In The Parlor Room's season one finale, host Chris Linnane shares his favorite questions and answers from his conversations with Harvard Business School faculty, including Mihir Desai, Mike Wheeler, Jill Avery, Nien-hê Hsieh, Jeff Bussgang, Joshua Margolis, Forest Reinhardt, and Linda Hill.
Tune in for their insights into finance, conflict management, branding, ethics, sustainability, and leadership.
Catch up on Season 1 of The Pa...
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February 26, 2024 • 20 mins
In our second special episode featuring season one bonus content, host Chris Linnane shares exclusive, unaired clips from his conversations with Harvard Business School faculty members.
Tune in for insights from Linda Hill on leadership's imperatives and developing contextual intelligence, Mihir Desai on making finance more accessible, Forest Reinhardt on learning through the case method, and Joshua Margolis on using real-world ex...
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February 12, 2024 • 19 mins
In the first of two special episodes featuring season one bonus content, host Chris Linnane shares exclusive, unaired clips from his conversations with Harvard Business School faculty members.
Tune in to hear from Mike Wheeler on negotiation, Jill Avery on branding, Jeff Bussgang on entrepreneurship, and Nien-hê Hsieh on ethics and artificial intelligence.
Catch up on Season 1 of The Parlor Room:
Mike Wheeler on the Jazz of Negot...
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January 22, 2024 • 25 mins
Great leadership requires being both a value creator and a game changer. In this episode of The Parlor Room, host Chris Linnane sits down with HBS Professor Linda Hill to explore what that means through the lens of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine development. They also discuss the paradoxes of management and the three roles leaders must play to innovate and meet customers' needs in the digital age.
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January 8, 2024 • 28 mins
How can businesses navigate the complexities of climate change? Host Chris Linnane and Harvard Business School Professor Forest Reinhardt delve into that question in this episode. They discuss the tragedy of the commons, explore the challenges of creating and selling a carbon-neutral beer, and answer listener questions about what responsibilities companies have to transition to sustainable practices.
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December 18, 2023 • 28 mins
Host Chris Linnane welcomes Harvard Business School Professor Joshua Margolis to The Parlor Room for an engaging conversation about organizational leadership. They discuss how to develop yourself as a leader by examining the story of Rakefet Russak-Aminoach, the former CEO of Bank Leumidive. They then dive into how Levi Strauss & Co. CEO Chip Bergh inspired and engaged employees to implement organizational change and drive performa...
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December 11, 2023 • 26 mins
Harvard Business School Professor Nien-hê Hsieh joins host Chris Linnane in The Parlor Room to discuss preserving work's human element with the proliferation of artificial intelligence and how Theranos' story imparts vital lessons about ethical decision-making and investing.
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Nien-hê Hsieh, Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration
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Professor Hsieh's HBS Online course, Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Acco...
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November 27, 2023 • 27 mins
This week on The Parlor Room, Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Jeff Bussgang, a former entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, joins host Chris Linnane to discuss the rise of generative AI, why experimentation is vital to finding product-market fit, and how to raise venture capital successfully. He also goes over how to come up with good business ideas and critiques some of Chris's in real time.
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