Melbourne Business School

About Melbourne Business School

Welcome to Melbourne Business School Podcast, where we answer the biggest questions in business today and explore topics of leadership, power, strategy, diversity, marketing and more.

Publisher

University of Melbourne

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Jan 2017

Latest episode

29 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 42 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   29 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The AI Roadmap

   Melbourne Business School Dean Professor Jenny George interviews Professor Jon Whittle, exploring a practical AI roadmap for leaders to navigate disruption and its impact on work.

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   14 Sept 2021

   Using mindfulness to fight burnout while working from home

   Working remotely during COVID-19 has led to record levels of stress and burnout, but embracing the principles of mindfulness could help. In the latest episode of the Melbourne Business School Podcast, Professorial Fellow Amanda Sinclair explains why stress levels increase when people are working from home, and offers practical advice for professionals and managers on how to embrace the principles of mindfulness.

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   15 Jul 2021

   Why you shouldn't be afraid of silence during a negotiation

   People usually assume that silence during a negotiation is an intimidation tactic, but new research shows it can actually lead to more collaborative outcomes. Melbourne Business School Associate Professor of Management Jennifer Overbeck and MIT Sloan Gordon Kaufman Professor of Management Jared Curhan spoke with Yasmin Rupesinghe about their findings on the latest episode of the Melbourne Business School Podcast. "When you ask people, 'what's your intuition about what happens when someone goes silent in a negotiation', they report that they think the other person is trying to get into my head, they're trying to wear me down, to play mind games with me," says Associate Professor Overbeck. "So, almost certainly what would happen if somebody went silent in a negotiation is that the other person would get freaked out and give away a lot of the value in that negotiation. "Instead, we've done at this point quite a few studies, and repeatedly what we have found is that silence seems to provide the negotiator an opportunity to pause and to sort of tamp down the heat of competition in the negotiation, and just take a little bit of mental space that allows the opportunity for collaboration to move to the fore."

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The AI Roadmap

Published 29 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It can be anything from 5% to 70%, depending on the task. But at an organizational level, those productivity increases are, at least again, not yet here. And part of the reason for that is that you can't just simply aggregate personal productivity to an organizational level. Organizations are complex. There's a lot happening there. And if you don't plan for how you're going to use to save time well, then you won't get those benefits. But again, I think it's a red herring because what I tell companies is that, sure, you can use AI to become more efficient in parts of your business. But if that's all you do, you're just getting faster at the things that you already do, where the real opportunity is to actually do new things that you couldn't do before. […]

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