At some point in our careers, we all question if we’re truly on the right path. But how do you know for sure? Nicholas Pearce, a clinical professor at Kellogg and author of "The Purpose Path," explains how to find your calling, and summon the courage to make it a reality.

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Let Your Purpose Guide Your Career

How can design thinking help you create better products, better services, and better solutions? On this episode, Kellogg Clinical Associate Professor David Schonthal, a senior director at IDEO, shares the three simple steps that can let anybody harness their inner designer and get results.

Unleash Your Inner Designer

Harry Kraemer was CEO of Baxter International in 2001, when the company’s products were linked to a string of deaths worldwide. How did he respond? Kraemer, now a clinical professor of strategy at Kellogg, discusses how to make hard choices that align with your internal compass.

Great Leaders Ask, "What Really Matters?"

Waiters get mistreated. Call center operators get screamed at. But why do those tense moments sometimes escalate to sabotage? Kellogg Professor Cynthia Wang shares what she discovered—and what companies can do about it.

Revenge of the Customer Service Rep

For those in the rose industry, Valentine's Day is a high-stakes day of commerce. Martin Lariviere explains what the humble rose can teach us about a working supply chain, and the many ways it can go awry.

How Do Those Valentine’s Day Roses End Up in Your Bouquet? It’s Complicated.

When we think people are different from us, how do we treat them? The answer to that question can sometimes be a matter of life or death. On this episode of the Kellogg Insight podcast, we hear from Prof. Nour Kteily about his research on social categorization.

How the Boston Marathon Bombing Created a Rorschach Test for Perceptions of Race

Insight talks about mentorship and advice with two professors whose own executive careers were helped by others.

Career Development

What Veterans Can Bring to Your Organization: a discussion of how former soldiers make loyal employees and trustworthy CEOs. Insight talks to an Army colonel and two finance professors about the unique qualities former servicemembers bring to the corporate world.

Military Leadership

Insight looks to the NBA for leadership lessons on how to build a successful team, how to manage diversity, and how one NBA team has embraced data analytics to drive decision making across the organization.

NBA Team Composition

Most of us spend a lot of time interacting with our coworkers. Being surrounded by the right teams can make long hours and challenging projects a lot more bearable. Getting along with our colleagues can make work fun. In this best-of podcast, Kellogg Insight offers advice on how to make the most of your work relationships.

Improving Relationships with Colleagues

Plus: Four questions to consider before becoming a social impact entrepreneur.

How Professionals—and Entire Companies—Can Lend Expertise to Nonprofits

A recruiter and a retired brigadier general discuss how to recruit and develop high-quality employees.

Attract Rockstar Employees-or Develop Your Own

Kellogg School marketing professor Derek Rucker discusses his research on power songs and how they might shape the way we behave after we listen to them. Kris Kukul, a Broadway music director and orchestrator, helps us understand how music is crafted in order to elicit an emotional reaction.

How Music Can Change Our Mood

Ashwin Ram, one of the creators of Amazon Echo, describes how the artificial intelligence device is learning how to understand the ways we speak. Plus, a Kellogg School data scientist describes an algorithm that can identify new social-media hashtags as they emerge.

How Amazon’s Alexa Learns

Learn how to most effectively give and receive feedback in the workplace. Then an expert on marriage discusses the ways our relationships can inform our work communications.

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