Podcasts by BCG

BCG's Nick Goad discusses how AI is reshaping merchandising, helping retailers turn customer data into deeper, more personal relationships.

Miguel Carrasco and Daniel Selikowitz discuss what separates governments that are scaling AI from those still stuck in pilot phase.

BCG’s Greg Emerson challenges the narrative that AI will drive mass unemployment.

In Higher Ground: How Businesses Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World, Alison Taylor explores how companies can navigate the complexity of modern business ethics.

In The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder, Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao share insights on friction—the forces that make it harder, slower, more complicated, or even impossible to get things done in organizations.

In Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World, Mohamed El-Erian and Michael Spence, along with their coauthors, Gordon Brown and Reid Lidow, consider how we’ve arrived at this state of constant instability and insecurity—and suggest concrete ways to break the cycle.

In The Worlds I See, Dr. Fei-Fei Li provides a personal and deeply insightful depiction of two convergent journeys. One describes her own life and career; Li immigrated to the U.S. from China at age 15, and within a few years had launched into research in computer vision and AI. The other is a history of AI, which has involved many breakthroughs over the past 70 years, culminating in a technology that is now changing life and business.

BCG’s Tolu Oyekan discusses how the continent’s economy will be boosted by free trade and universal access to power.

BCG’s Neeraj Aggarwal explores how Asia will increasingly set the global agenda in areas long-dominated by the West.

BCG’s Marc Gilbert explores how multinational corporations could thrive in a world of competing trade blocs over the next decade.

BCG’s Julie Bedard, a Fellow at BCG Henderson Institute, shares why AI isn't a substitute for people.

The integrated health care company uses AI to improve care delivery in four main ways.

The enterprise resource planning company’s global head of AI shares his views on training AI agents.

The CEO shares how his nonprofit uses AI to think about upcycling goods as well as upskilling its employees and community members.

The financial services executive shares how his organization implements traditional and generative AI.

Electric vehicles have revolutionized the automotive industry and created a sustainable circular economy. Today in 2050, the internal combustion engine is a relic of the past. At the Paulista Grand Prix in São Paulo, race car driver Bela Tanaka goes neck and neck with Rahul Gonzalez for a chance at the top 5.

Clothing recycling along with second-hand and rental markets have significantly decreased waste in the fashion industry. Today in 2050, every garment tells a story. This transparency about an item’s provenance empowers consumers to make responsible choices. At Tokyo Fashion Week, model Emiko Ikeda must decide if they should take a stand against unethical clothing manufacturing.

In 2050, mangrove forests are thriving across Southeast Asia’s shorelines, protecting coastal communities from flooding and erosion. The region is a world leader in nature-based solutions to climate challenges. Environmental scientist Danilo Manolo travels through a protected mangrove forest in a national park in Malaysia to halt an illegal logging operation.

Controlled-environment agriculture allows farmers to grow fruits and vegetables indoors all over the world and even on Mars. Vertical farms are interwoven into the fabric of our cities, and produce is grown in greenhouses in less densely populated areas. Farmer Louisette Thibault must contain a pest outbreak at indoor farming facilities in and around Montreal, Canada.