Is Business Broken?
Hosted by Curt Nickisch · Questrom School of Business
4.2from 66 ratings
- 41
- Episodes
- 18
- Transcribed
- 66
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 274
- YouTube views
About Is Business Broken?
Conversations about the role of business in society, brought to you by the Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets & Society at BU Questrom School of Business.
- Publisher
- Questrom School of Business
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Apr 2024
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
18 of 41 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is Employee Surveillance a Productivity Solution, or a Trust Problem?
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Beyond Corporate Sustainability: Can the Free Market Be Environmentally Responsible?
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Beyond Corporate Sustainability: When Did Sustainability Become Sustainability Inc?
Inside a recent episode
Is Employee Surveillance a Productivity Solution, or a Trust Problem?
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So that's like measuring lead time. looking at how long it takes you to deploy software so that if you have a problem you understand how quickly you can recover from that problem i think the key here is that organizations should strive for transparency around what they're measuring how they are using the data that they collect and what improvements they are making from it because anything that you measure anything that produces metrics you could use for ill intent. You could look at a timesheet and look at a timesheet and say, aha, I'm going to use that to punish this person. Gotcha. I don't want to overlook the value here, right? […]
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- Thomas Costa
- Rhonda Morris
- Kabrina K Chang
- George Champlin-Scharff
- Naomi Oreskes
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 274
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.2 / 5
- 60 ratings
- Spotify
- 3.8 / 5
- 6 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100
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- Quality
- 59
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 64
- Engagement
- 75
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Who hosts Is Business Broken??
Curt Nickisch host the show. Published by Questrom School of Business.
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