The Insightful Leader

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Expert advice and cutting-edge discoveries from one of the world's leading business schools.

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July 27, 202634 min

Life, Automated | To Thrive Alongside AI, Find the Bottlenecks

This week on The Insightful Leader, we're bringing you an episode of "Life, Automated"—a new podcast from Kellogg's Ryan Institute on Complexity. Join host Jess Love as she attempts to answer the question on everyone's lips: Will AI actually take over every job ever? Kellogg economist Ben Jones doesn't think so. Drawing from historical evidence around innovation, Jones argues that automation never conquers everything—it inevitably creates operational bottlenecks that only humans can solve. By leaning into these bottlenecks, we can protect meaningful, well-paid work. But his optimism comes with a stark caveat: there is one nightmare scenario where this historical pattern breaks down entirely. And it doesn't involve superintelligence. It involves mediocre AI. For more Life, Automated: Apple Spotify

July 6, 202629 min

Insight Unpacked S3E5 | Electricity Was Supposed to Save Us. Will It Doom Us Instead?

In the fifth—and final—episode of "Insight Unpacked: Can We Still Build a Green Economy?" we consider how AI and the human spirit could get us to net zero.

June 8, 202631 min

Insight Unpacked S3E4 | Does Climate Policy Stand a Chance?

America passed its biggest-ever climate bill … only to reverse course three years later. In the fourth episode of "Insight Unpacked: Can We Still Build a Green Economy?" experts discuss why policy solutions struggle to stick.

May 25, 202632 min

Insight Unpacked S3E3 | Why Wall Street Slowed Its Roll on Sustainability

A few years ago, the stock market was wild about green tech and ESG funds. And then it wasn't. We look at why in the third episode of "Insight Unpacked: Can We Still Build a Green Economy?"

May 11, 202627 min

Insight Unpacked S3E2 | Why Companies Can't Keep Their Climate Commitments

They say they want to do better. In the second episode of "Insight Unpacked: Can We Still Build a Green Economy?" we look at an oil company, a tech giant, and an Italian energy provider to explore why net-zero pledges have barely moved the needle.

April 27, 202632 min

Insight Unpacked S3E1 | The Climate Crisis Is Here. Will We Ever Fix It?

Saving the planet is going to take more than net-zero pledges and shopping green. In the first episode of our series, "Insight Unpacked: Can We Still Build a Green Economy?" we take the current temperature of the climate fight.

April 20, 20262 min

Introducing Insight Unpacked, Season 3

Introducing Insight Unpacked, Season 3: Can We Still Build a Green Economy? In the last decade, we've seen powerful people and organizations take on the issue of climate change — making big pledges to reduce their carbon emissions by adapting their fleets, retrofitting their offices, or going paperless. And yet global emissions are still at or near record highs. So what gives? In this five-episode season, we're asking: If climate change is already reshaping our environment, is there anything that companies, investors, policymakers, technologists, and ordinary people can do to turn things around? And are we even capable of doing that? There's reason for hope. But our work is certainly cut out for us.

April 13, 202616 min

When It Comes to Biases, AI's Only Human

The AI models informing many of our decisions are riddled with preconceptions. On this episode of The Insightful Leader, two experts outline how bias creeps in.