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.

Renée Mauborgne argues that lasting growth does not come from winning market share in crowded existing industries, but from creating entirely new market space that no one is competing in yet. In her conversation with Adam Job, senior director at the BCG Institute, Mauborgne discusses when a company should stop competing and start creating, why the search for new demand begins with non-customers rather than customers, how NVIDIA chases “zero-billion-dollar markets,” why differentiation and low cost need not be a trade-off, whether AI’s commoditizing effect makes advantage harder to defend, and how to reconcile bold commitment with the case for keeping options open.

Matthew Weaver and Mikey Dickerson argue that organizational crises are not problems to be survived but are rare windows in which rapid, directed transformation becomes possible within days rather than years. In their conversation with Nikolaus Lang they discuss why breakdowns in sensemaking cause well-trained operators to make situations worse, what the healthcare.gov rescue reveals about co-location and shared urgency, how crisis disrupts normal incentive structures to surface the organization’s real map, the concept of bracketing as a tool for directing team attention, and how AI integrations are creating the conditions for larger and harder-to-manage crises ahead.

In The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us, Benjamin Recht argues that the optimization and mathematical rationality we apply to every corner of modern life—from dieting to hiring to strategy—often fails when encountering the messy realities of life.

In AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI’s Future and Save Our Own, Verity Harding argues that AI governance is too important to be left to technologists alone—and that the rest of us need to join the conversation to shape this technology’s future.

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.