40 Best Harvard University Podcasts

1. HBR IdeaCast

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A weekly podcast featuring the leading thinkers in business and management.
Hosts Alison Beard, Curt Nickisch
Producer/Network Harvard Business Review
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Apple Rating 4.3/5Apple Reviews 2.7KFacebook 5.8MTwitter 5.8MInstagram 3.2M Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Since May 2006 Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. HBS Managing the Future of Work

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Artificial intelligence. Robotics. The Gig Economy. Globalization. The world is changing at a dizzying pace in ways that will have a profound effect on the economy, jobs and the flow of talent. How will firms cope with the changes ahead and what steps do they need to take today? Each episode features faculty from the world's leading business school interviewing CEOs, technologists and experts on the bleeding edge discussing how to survive and thrive by managing the future of work.MORE Hosts William R. Kerr, Joseph B. Fuller
Email ****@hbs.edu
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 142Facebook 619.2KTwitter 600.3KInstagram 812.2K Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Since Jun 2018 Get Email Contact

3. Cold Call

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Cold Call distills Harvard Business School's legendary case studies into podcast form. Hosted by Brian Kenny, the podcast airs every two weeks and features Harvard Business School faculty discussing cases they've written and the lessons they impart.MORE Host Brian Kenny
Producer/Network Harvard Business Review
Email ****@hbs.edu
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 270Facebook 5.8MTwitter 5.8MInstagram 3.2M Avg Length 31 min Format Medium form Since Sep 2016 Get Email Contact

4. Climate Rising

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Climate Rising is about the impact of climate change on business. It brings business and policy leaders and Harvard Business School faculty together to share insights about what businesses are doing, can do, and should do to confront climate change. It explores the many challenges and opportunities that climate change raises for managers, such as decisions about where they choose to locate, the technologies they develop and use, their strategies with respect to products, marketing, customer engagement, and policy—in other words, the full spectrum of business concerns.MORE Host Mike Toffel
Producer/Network Harvard Business School Business & Environment Initiative
Email ****@hbs.edu
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 99Facebook 619.2KTwitter 2.9KInstagram 812.2K Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Since Oct 2019 Get Email Contact

5. Coaching Real Leaders

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We all want to get to the next level of our career, but so many of us get stuck. Longtime leadership coach Muriel Wilkins takes you inside real-life leadership coaching sessions with high performers working to overcome professional challenges and grow as leaders. Listen in on real conversations and leave with new insights and practical guidance for your own career.The views expressed on this podcast are those of its hosts, guests, and callers, and not those of Harvard Business Review.MORE Host Muriel Wilkins
Producer/Network Harvard Business Review
Email ****@murielwilkins.com
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 844Facebook 285Twitter 1.2KInstagram 3.2M Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Since Dec 2020 Get Email Contact

6. Harvard Divinity School

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Expand your understanding of the ways religion shapes the world with lectures, interviews, and reflections from Harvard Divinity School.
Producer/Network Harvard Divinity School
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Apple Rating 4.3/5Apple Reviews 27 Avg Length 48 min Format Long form Since Nov 2014 Get Email Contact

7. Justice Matters

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Investigating matters of human rights at home and abroad. Listen to the podcast by the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School, hosted by Executive Director Maggie Gates, Mathias Risse, Aminta Ossom, and Diego Garcia Blum. The views expressed are those of each speaker individually and not necessarily those of others in this recording, the Carr-Ryan Center, or Harvard Kennedy School. We support free speech as the cornerstone of learning and democracy and share these perspectives to foster open debate.MORE Hosts Aminta Ossom, Maggie Gates, Mathias Risse
Producer/Network Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Email ****@law.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 26Facebook 5.9KTwitter 8.7K Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Since Jan 2018 Get Email Contact

8. Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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How will the future unfold? What is the impact of AI and other exponential technologies on business & society? Join Azeem Azhar, founder of Exponential View, on his quest to demistify the era of exponential change.MORE Host Azeem Azhar
Producer/Network Azeem Azhar
Email ****@azhar.co.uk
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 1.5K Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

9. The Harvard EdCast

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In the complex world of education, the Harvard EdCast keeps the focus simple: what makes a difference for learners, educators, parents, and our communities. The EdCast is a weekly podcast about the ideas that shape education, from early learning through college and career. We talk to teachers, researchers, policymakers, and leaders of schools and systems in the US and around the world — looking for positive approaches to the challenges and inequities in education. Through authentic conversation, we work to lower the barriers of education's complexities so that everyone can understand...MORE Host Jill Anderson
Producer/Network Harvard Graduate School of Education
Email ****@gse.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 4.3/5Apple Reviews 100Facebook 212.2KTwitter 147.8K Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Since Jan 2013 Get Email Contact

10. Faculty Voices

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Faculty Voices is produced by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. Hear what Harvard faculty think about relevant topics that impact Latin America.
Producer/Network David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Email ****@fas.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2Facebook 26.3KTwitter 8.3K Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Since Oct 2020 Get Email Contact

11. Skydeck

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The Harvard Business School alumni podcast
Host Daniel Morrell
Producer/Network Harvard Business School
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 29 Avg Length 17 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

12. Women at Work

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Women face gender discrimination throughout our careers. It doesn't have to derail our ambitions — but how do we prepare to deal with it? There's no workplace orientation session about narrowing the wage gap, standing up to interrupting male colleagues, or taking on many other issues we encounter at work. So HBR staffers Amy Bernstein, Amy Gallo, and Emily Caulfield are untangling some of the knottiest problems. They interview experts on gender, tell stories about their own experiences, and give lots of practical advice to help you succeed in spite of the obstacles.MORE Hosts Amy Bernstein, Amy Gallo
Producer/Network Harvard Business Review
Email ****@hbr.org
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 1.8KFacebook 5.8MTwitter 5.8MInstagram 3.2M Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Since Jan 2018 Get Email Contact

13. Dear HBR:

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Work can be frustrating. How can you get along with that maddening coworker? Figure out what your unapproachable boss really wants? Motivate your demoralized team? 'Dear HBR:' is here to help. With empathy, experience, and humor, veteran Harvard Business Review editors and co-hosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn explore solutions to your workplace dilemmas. Bolstered by insights from guests and academic research, they help you navigate thorny situations to find a better way forward.MORE Hosts Alison Beard, Dan McGinn
Producer/Network Harvard Business Review
Email ****@hbr.org
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 1.1KFacebook 5.8MTwitter 5.8MInstagram 3.2M Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Since Jan 2018 Get Email Contact

14. Middle East Matters

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Conversations with newsmakers, scholars, intellectuals, and activists on the challenges and opportunities facing the Middle East, brought to you by the Middle East Initiative of the Harvard Kennedy School.MORE Producer/Network Belfer Center
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1Facebook 18.5KTwitter 37.1K Avg Length 88 min Format Long form Since Dec 2020 Get Email Contact

15. Harvard Islamica Podcast

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Harvard Islamica, the podcast of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University, explores topics related to the scholarly study of Islam and Muslim societies at Harvard and beyond.MORE Hosts Meryum Kazmi, Harry Bastermajian
Email ****@harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2Twitter 6.9K Avg Length 62 min Format Long form Since Oct 2020 Get Email Contact

16. PolicyCast

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PolicyCast explores research-based policy solutions to the big problems and issues we're facing in our society and our world. Host Ralph Ranalli talks with leading Harvard University academics and researchers, visiting scholars, dignitaries, and world leaders. PolicyCast is produced at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.MORE Host Ralph Ranalli
Producer/Network Harvard Kennedy School
Email ****@hks.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 118Facebook 128.3KTwitter 139.1KInstagram 118.1K Avg Length 45 min Format Long form Since Jan 2013 Get Email Contact

17. Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society: Audio Fishbowl

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Peek inside the Berkman Klein Center's Audio Fishbowl: Conversations with leading cyber-scholars, entrepreneurs, activists, and policymakers as they explore the bleeding edge of the internet and technology, democracy, law, and society. (Also available as video) From the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.Want to hear more? Listen to the Platform - our fully produced podcast, featuring exclusive interviews and conversations from inside the Berkman Klein Center.MORE Producer/Network Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Email ****@cyber.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 3.7/5Apple Reviews 21Facebook 22.2KTwitter 65.4K Avg Length 63 min Format Long form Since Apr 2017 Get Email Contact

18. Talking Practice

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From the world's premier design school, Harvard GSD's Talking Practice asks leading designers to provide an inside glimpse into what they do, why, and how they do it — exposing the ways in which their design imagination is articulated through practice.MORE Producer/Network Harvard Graduate School of Design
Email ****@gsd.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 104Facebook 101KTwitter 42.5K Avg Length 47 min Format Long form Since Sep 2018 Get Email Contact

19. Coronavirus (COVID-19) Press Conferences

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Listen to press conferences on coronavirus (COVID-19) from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, featuring experts in epidemiology, infectious diseases, environmental health, and health policy.Subscribe to our new podcast, 'Better Off.'You can also listen back to archival episodes of 'Harvard Chan: This Week in Health.'MORE Producer/Network Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Email ****@hsph.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 46Facebook 145.7KTwitter 380.7K Avg Length 43 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

20. Living Better, Living Longer

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Expert physicians from Harvard Medical School offer their perspective on health and wellness for people with questions and concerns, from Harvard Health Publishing.
Producer/Network Harvard Health Publishing
Email ****@hms.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 56Facebook 253.1KTwitter 2.6M Avg Length 23 min Format Medium form Since Sep 2019 Get Email Contact

21. Humans of Harvard College Podcast

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Everyone has a story—a story worth sharing. This podcast is here to highlight the stories of the Humans of Harvard College.Hosted by David ChenGraphic Design by Meiyi YanExecutive Producers Mira Becker and Chelsea GuoMusic by Alex YounMORE Producer/Network David Chen
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1Facebook 1.2KInstagram 4.7K Avg Length 53 min Format Long form Since Nov 2020 Get Email Contact

22. Epicenter

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Epicenter is produced by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Wrapping our minds around profound global issues can be daunting. Where does one begin to unpack responsibility for climate change or human rights? How does one account for social inequalities or the endurance of repressive regimes?In our Epicenter podcast, we bring together scholars and experienced practitioners from different disciplines to guide us through pressing global topics, to boil down the issues, to explain the research and give valuable context...MORE Hosts Jessica Barnard, Erin Goodman
Producer/Network Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University
Email ****@wcfia.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1Facebook 3.5KTwitter 7.3K Avg Length 41 min Format Long form Since Jan 2020 Get Email Contact

23. Harvard Center for International Development

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Incredible progress has been made throughout the world in recent years. However, globalization has failed to deliver on its promises. As problems like unequal access to education and healthcare, environmental degradation, and stretched finances persist, we must continue building on decades of transformative development work.The Center for International Development (CID) is a university-wide center based at the Harvard Kennedy School that seeks to solve these pressing development problems—and many more.At CID, we believe leveraging global talent is the key to enabling development for all...MORE Hosts Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Fatema Z. Sumar
Producer/Network Harvard Center for International Development
Email ****@hks.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 35Facebook 17.3KTwitter 17.3K Avg Length 41 min Format Long form Since Sep 2016 Get Email Contact

24. The Brain Architects

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On The Brain Architects from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, we explore emerging science in early childhood development and strategies and policy solutions for supporting young children and their caregivers. We examine how the conditions where children live, grow, play, and learn shape their development, lifelong physical and mental health, and well-being. This includes a child's environment of relationships and influences from their broader environment, such as access to clean air, safe drinking water, the availability of safe, stable housing, and more...MORE Host Cameron Seymour-Hawkins
Producer/Network The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
Email ****@harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 124Facebook 25.8KTwitter 23.6K Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Since Dec 2019 Get Email Contact

25. Voir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Mana

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Voir Dire is an interview-based podcast about criminal justice reform. Sometimes, we share the conversations taking place on Harvard's campus; other times, we start conversations outside of those small classrooms. Working or living in the criminal legal system can habituate you to the cruelty and wastefulness of the whole thing. In this podcast, we try to contextualize these systems, pick the brains of the most thoughtful people in criminal justice reform, and think big about how to ameliorate the mass incarceration crisis. Hosted by Schuyler Daum.MORE Producer/Network HKS Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management
Email ****@hks.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 77Facebook 2.2KTwitter 1K Avg Length 40 min Format Long form Since Oct 2017 Get Email Contact

26. Science in the News

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SIT'N Listen is a production of Science in the News - a graduate student run organization at Harvard University committed to (1) bridging the communication gap between scientists and the rest of the world and (2) catalyzing discussions between scientists, other experts and enthusiasts. Here at SITN we bring scientists to you! Listen in.MORE Producer/Network SITN Boston
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 10Facebook 6.9KTwitter 3.5K Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

27. AshCast

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AshCast brings you the latest discussions on democracy, government innovation, and Asia public policy from the halls of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, a research center and think tank at Harvard Kennedy SchoolMORE Producer/Network Harvard Ash Center
Email ****@ash.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3Facebook 9.3KTwitter 19.9K Avg Length 34 min Format Medium form Since Feb 2020 Get Email Contact

28. Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy

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We are a premier publication focused on public policy issues that impact Latinx and Hispanic communities in the United States and Puerto Rico. Founded in 1985, we are the oldest student-run policy journal at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. We strive to lift voices focused on Latinx and Hispanic issues in a non-partisan and inclusive publication.MORE Producer/Network HarvardHispanicJournal
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3Facebook 2.7KTwitter 1.3K Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Since Oct 2019 Get Email Contact

29. Building State Capability Podcast

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The Building State Capability (BSC) program researches strategies and tactics to build the capability of public organizations to implement policies and programs.BSC has developed the Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) approach, a process of facilitated emergence which focuses on problems (not solutions) and follows a step by step process (not a rigid plan) that allows for flexible learning and adaptation. PDIA is a learning by doing approach that helps organizations develop the capability to solve complex problems while they are actually solving such problems.MORE Host Salimah Samji
Producer/Network Building State Capability at Harvard University
Email ****@hks.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 8Facebook 411Twitter 3.1K Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Since Mar 2018 Get Email Contact

30. Better Off

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The latest from public health experts on how we can all lead healthier lives.
Producer/Network Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Email ****@hsph.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 88Facebook 145.7KTwitter 380.7KInstagram 84.7K Avg Length 19 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

31. Harvard Macy Institute Podcast

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Committed to cultivating an inclusive global community of health professions educators committed to transforming education through learning, growth, and innovation.
Producer/Network harvardmacy
Email ****@hms.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 8Facebook 1KTwitter 12K Avg Length 37 min Format Medium form Since Sep 2020 Get Email Contact

32. Learning Paths

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Conversations with students, teachers, and professionals on the importance of continuous learning in health care and beyond.
Producer/Network HMX - Harvard Medical School
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 6Facebook 347.5KTwitter 2.4KInstagram 112.7K Avg Length 22 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

33. The Nexus

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Honoring the work of African American designers at the intersection of design, black identity, and practice.
Producer/Network Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Email ****@gsd.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 106Facebook 101KTwitter 42.5K Avg Length 52 min Format Long form Since Jun 2020 Get Email Contact

34. The Mittal Institute, Harvard University

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The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University (The Mittal Institute) engages in interdisciplinary research to advance and deepen the understanding of critical issues of South Asia and its relationship to the world.MORE Email ****@fas.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 3.7/5Apple Reviews 5Facebook 12.6KTwitter 9KInstagram 7.7K Avg Length 52 min Format Long form Since Feb 2017 Get Email Contact

35. Under Review

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How can Harvard, an institution with so much history, have so little memory? The racial reckonings and Black Lives Matter protests that swept the country this past summer brought attention to a trend in how Harvard seems to deal with student activism and concerns surrounding race, racism, and diversity: to commission a diversity review. These committees and reports long predate this summer, and reading them it can seem, at times, like some things have not changed at the University — in race relations, Harvard's review process, or the findings and recommendations...MORE Producer/Network The Harvard Crimson
Email ****@thecrimson.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 4Facebook 82.7KTwitter 67.9K Avg Length 51 min Format Long form Since Mar 2021 Get Email Contact

36. Harvard Classics

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Former President of Harvard University Charles W. Eliot wrote in his introduction to the Harvard Classics, 'In my opinion, a five-foot shelf would hold books enough to give a liberal education to any one who would read them with devotion, even if he could spare but fifteen minutes a day for reading.' Here you are, you can easily listen to his entire 15-minutes a day study guide while commuting to and from work (most of us spend far more than 15 minutes a day commuting each day), doing mundane work in the office, washing dishes at home, or doing most of the things day in and day out...MORE Producer/Network Rich E Book
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Apple Rating 3.8/5Apple Reviews 8 Avg Length 13 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

37. Voices in Leadership

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The Voices in Leadership series at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health enhances the decision-making knowledge of students and generates ideas that can provide solutions and strategies to global and domestic health problems.MORE Email ****@harvard.edu
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Facebook 145.7KTwitter 2.2K Avg Length 35 min Format Medium form Since Jan 2016 Get Email Contact

38. The Chief Growth Officer Podcast with Dr. Antonio Oftelie

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The Chief Growth Officer Podcast hosted by Dr. Antonio Oftelie of Harvard University, illuminates ideas on achieving transformational growth in outcomes and value. The podcast features iconic executives and change agents as they share stories and ideas on growing the organizational and personal capacity to achieve breakthrough innovation and change and most importantly generate outcomes that make a sustainably prosperous, equitable, and just world...MORE Email ****@lnwprogram.org
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Facebook 235Twitter 636 Avg Length 48 min Format Long form Since Jul 2020 Get Email Contact

39. The Disruptive Voice

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The Disruptive Voice explores the frameworks of Disruptive Innovation across a wide range of industries and circumstances. Guests include academics, researchers, and practitioners who have been taught and inspired by the late Clayton Christensen.MORE Producer/Network Harvard Business School
Email ****@hbs.edu
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 64Facebook 406Twitter 1.7K Avg Length 41 min Format Long form Since Jan 2016 Get Email Contact