Organization and Management Theory OMT

On the Cusp: Between Strategy and Ethics

Hosted by Alfred Marcus, Edson Spencer Professor of Strategy and Technological Leadership, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

Consider mentioning the podcasts to your students.  The podcasts are likely to be great supplementary material for your courses!!!

For comments, reactions, or recommendations of books for future episodes, email me at amarcus@umn.edu.

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Most Recent (as of 12/19/25)

Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street -- Megan Tobias Neely

Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/hedged-out-2

Both/And Thinking:  Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems --

Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis -- https://newbooksnetwork.com/both-and-thinking-2

Jewish Giving: Philanthropy and the Shaping of American Jewish Life-- Jack Wertheimer

https://newbooksnetwork.com/jewish-giving

Prior Podcasts Organized by Topic

Strategy, Competition, and Advantage

• Inside the Competitor's Mindset - John Horn
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/inside-the-competitors-mindset
• Legal Knowledge in Organizations - Robert C. Bird
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/legal-knowledge-in-organizations-2
• Seeing Around Corners - Rita Gunther McGrath
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/seeing-around-corners-2
• The Influence Economy - Maxim Sytch
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/maxim-sytch-the-influence-economy-decoding-supplier-induced-demand-oxford-up-2025

Innovation, Technology, and Organizational Change

• Lead and Disrupt - Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/lead-and-disrupt
• Epic Disruptions - Scott D. Anthony
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/epic-disruptions
• Fatal Abstraction - Darryl Campbell
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/fatal-abstraction

Industry Transformation and Reinvention

• How Things Are Made - Tim Minshall
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/how-things-are-made
• Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car - Alex Davies
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/alex-davies-driven-the-race-to-create-the-autonomous-car-simon-schuster-2022

Capitalism and Purpose

• The Investment Philosophers - Ethan A. Everett
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-investment-philosophers
• Beyond Shareholder Primacy - Stuart Hart
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/beyond-shareholder-primacy
• Leading the Sustainable Organization - Peter McAteer
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/leading-the-sustainable-organization

The Changing the Workplace and Global Business

• The World Is Your Office - Prithwiraj Choudhury
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/prithwiraj-choudhury-the-world-is-your-office-how-work-from-anywhere-boosts-talent-productivity-and-innovation-harvard-business-review-press-2025
• Crusading for Globalization - Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/crusading-for-globalization
• Chokepoints - Edward Fishman
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/edward-fishman-chokepoints-american-power-in-the-age-of-economic-warfare-portfolio-2025
• The Future of Employment in Africa - Loic De Canniere
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-future-of-employment-in-africa

Technology, Society, and Media

• The AI Con - Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-ai-con-2
• Hoodwinked - Mara Einstein
  Podcast link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/hoodwinked