Latest Stanford gsb Podcast Episodes

“Books, Articles, and Documentaries Will Help Us Understand This Country’s Divide.”

Leadership for Society: Race and Power - February 05, 2021 18:30 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Stories tell us who we are and help us understand others. They also suggest who we can be, if we overcome the ongoing divides in this country. In this podcast episode, Professor Brian Lowery sits down with American journalist and publishing executive Dana Canedy, dubbed by the New York ...

“White Americans Need to Understand That Their Interests Coincide with Black People’s Interests”

Leadership for Society: Race and Power - January 21, 2021 18:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
In a conversation with Professor Brian Lowery, Dr. Spencer Crew, professor of history and art history at George Mason University joins Dr. Clayborne Carson, professor emeritus of history at Stanford and the director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, to di...

“Never Mistake Presence for Power”

Leadership for Society: Race and Power - January 05, 2021 22:30 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Economic and social inequalities between white and Black people gained global attention again this year. In this podcast episode, Rashad Robinson, president of Color Of Change — the largest online racial justice organization driven by more than 7.2 million members — spoke on the global ...

“You Can’t Have Capitalism Without Capital"

Leadership for Society: Race and Power - November 25, 2020 18:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
In a country where policies blocking Black people from obtaining mortgages, land, and capital have created an immense wealth gap between Black and white Americans that persists to this day, inequality is a threat to our democracy, says Mehrsa Baradaran, professor of law and associate de...

"We Don't Know Each Other Anymore in This Country"

Leadership for Society: Race and Power - November 12, 2020 21:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Just a week before a divisive presidential election, Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, and a candidate in the Democratic primaries for the 2020 presidential election, and Jeff Flake, the Republican former U.S. Senator from Arizona and former member of the House of Rep...

“The State of the Nation Is Dependent on Getting Equity Right”

Leadership for Society: Race and Power - October 29, 2020 19:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
As the U.S. gets closer to becoming a nation where the majority of its citizens are people of color, Angela Glover Blackwell, the founder in residence of PolicyLink, is focused on innovating and improving public policy to ensure opportunity for all low-income people and communities of c...

"We Need to Stop TipToeing Around Race"

Leadership for Society: Race and Power - October 15, 2020 17:50 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
In the midst of a powerful social justice movement, Quita Highsmith, VP and Chief Diversity Officer at Genentech, and Simone Hill, MBA/MA ’14, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) strategist at Omidyar Network, work to steer their organizations toward a new definition of corporate re...