EXPLORE OUR PODCASTS: The So What from BCG | Imagine This | Me, Myself, and AI | Thinkers and Ideas | Climate Vision 2050 | American Metamorphosis | In Her Ellement
The So What from BCG
In this series, award-winning journalist Georgie Frost interviews the leading thinkers and doers at BCG on the trends, developments, and ideas that will shape and disrupt the future. Topics range from global warming, COVID-19, business resilience, and social inequity to the influence of digital technology on everything.
What Sweatpants Can Teach Us about Generational Differences and Segmentation
BCG's Justin Vincent explains how a sharper focus can drive results for consumer brands amid slowing growth.
What’s Next in Medtech Matters to Us All
BCG’s Vikram Aggarwal explores why medtech needs more than better devices—and how leaders can unlock the next generation of innovation.
Your Next Business Move Should Be in Orbit
BCG’s Troy Thomas reveals how space tech is transforming business and why leaders should take notice.
The Button That Broke the Internet (and Built It Too)
BCG’s Martin Reeves explores how a small digital icon reshaped innovation, business, and regulation.
Imagine This...
What would you have done differently if you had anticipated the rise of hybrid work or the explosion of generative AI? This podcast helps CEOs consider possible futures for our world—and their businesses.
The Future of Trade: How Will Multinational CEOs Succeed?
BCG’s Marc Gilbert explores how multinational corporations could thrive in a world of competing trade blocs over the next decade.
Force Multiplier or Co-Worker? Humans, AI, and the Future of Work
BCG’s Julie Bedard, a Fellow at BCG Henderson Institute, shares why AI isn't a substitute for people.
Will You Buy a Car from a Chatbot?
BCG’s Andrej Levin explains how AI could move us from targeted ads to truly personal recommendations.
How Will AI Revamp Marketing—and the Role of CMOs?
BCG’s Janet Balis describes how AI-savvy CMOs can do so much more than marketing.
Me, Myself, and AI
This series from BCG and MIT Sloan Management Review connects with business leaders who have achieved big wins with their AI initiatives and—through straightforward, engaging conversation—finds out how they’ve done it.
Delivering More Connected Care Through AI: CVS Health’s Josh Weiner
The integrated health care company uses AI to improve care delivery in four main ways.
Building Better Answers With AI Agents: SAP’s Walter Sun
The enterprise resource planning company’s global head of AI shares his views on training AI agents.
Upcycling and Upskilling With AI: Goodwill's Steve Preston
The CEO shares how his nonprofit uses AI to think about upcycling goods as well as upskilling its employees and community members.
Overcoming AI Hallucinations: Truist’s Chandra Kapireddy
The financial services executive shares how his organization implements traditional and generative AI.
Thinkers and Ideas
This podcast from the BCG Henderson Institute (BHI) unearths inspiring and thought-provoking insights from leading thinkers about influential ideas on business, technology, economics, and science. Martin Reeves, chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, and Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, global chief economist of BCG, host the series.
SuperAdaptability with Max McKeown
In SuperAdaptability: How to Transcend in an Age of Overwhelm, Max McKeown argues that the key to thriving under uncertainty is adaptability—being able to change with your environment, again and again, getting better each time.
Capitalism and its Critics with John Cassidy
In Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World, John Cassidy offers a multi-century history of global capitalism, told through the eyes of its dissenters.
Warhead with Dr. Nicholas Wright
In Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain, Nicholas Wright argues that war and competition are rooted in human biology—in our drives for survival, fairness, territory, and belonging.
After the Spike with Dean Spears and Michael Geruso
In After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People, Dean Spears and Michael Geruso argue that the defining demographic risk of this century is global depopulation.
Climate Vision 2050
BCG's most imaginative podcast yet is set in the year 2050, yet it is not a work of fantasy. We're exploring how the world radically reduced carbon emissions and saved itself from climate change catastrophe. Immerse yourself in the climate action journey that makes this net-zero world possible.
Driven to Adapt
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.
Green is the New Black
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.
The Mangrove Manifesto
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.
From Future to Fork
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.
American Metamorphosis
Is the US a country in flux? Emmy-nominated journalist Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani digs into America’s most complex challenges in this podcast from BCG and Atlantic Re:Think. Through deep storytelling, episodes explore transformative insights and ways to repair our country’s cracks.
The Way Forward
Christoph Schweizer, BCG's Global CEO, Kristen Kish, Iron Chef co-host, and Seth Dobrin, the president of the Responsible AI Institute, discuss how to build our future with empathy, from the kitchen to the data lab.
Transform to Perform
We hear from an Olympic marathon runner and a former fMRI brain researcher about how to stay composed under pressure, and learn how these insights can be applied to the energy sector as it strives to meet the demands of a greener future.
Recover and Discover
Emerge from setbacks with a new perspective.
The F Word
Jacqueline Novogratz, the CEO and founder of the Acumen Fund, Julie King, a best-selling author, and Juliet Grabowski, a managing director and partner at BCG, discuss how we can learn to embrace failure.
In Her Ellement
AI and digital expert Suchi Srinivasan and fintech leader Kamila Rakhimova, both Managing Directors and Partners at BCG, talk to women at the forefront of business, digital, and technology. They explore the pivotal moments that shaped these leaders’ journeys, from breakthrough wins to the realities of balancing personal responsibilities. At the heart of each episode is one question: When did you realize you weren’t just getting there, you had arrived? That’s when you’re in your element.
Bringing Your Whole Self to Work with Port of Rotterdam’s Saskia Mureau
Saskia Mureau, Director of Customer Digital at the Port of Rotterdam, shares her experience navigating IVF while in a leadership role. She discusses how workplaces should foster cultures where people feel safe, supported, and able to fully engage as their authentic selves.
Shaping the Future of Leadership with Praxis Lab’s Elise Smith
Elise Smith, co-founder and CEO of Praxis Labs, shares how working at the intersection of AI, equity, and immersive learning is transforming leadership development and helping to build more inclusive workplaces.
What are the Most Important Issues Affecting Women in the Workplace?
Our podcast co-hosts kick off season four by unpacking today's workplace trends: economic volatility, AI's job impact, and return-to-office mandates. Suchi and Kamila share personal stories and actionable advice, empowering young professionals to master continuous learning, sharpen self-evaluation, and grow without burnout.
Finding Meaning with Former CSO of IKEA Pia Heidenmark Cook
Pia Heidenmark Cook, former Chief Sustainability Officer at IKEA and co-author of Embedding Sustainability: How to Drive Organizational Transformation, discusses how integrating sustainability into core operations is transforming business strategy. Pia shares what it means to lead with purpose while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
