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In the sixth episode, we get to know Professor Suprateek Sarker. Professor Suprateek Sarker is Rolls Royce Commonwealth Commerce Professor in Information Technology at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. His work is in the field of Information Systems, focusing on topics such as data management and business intelligence and transformation of digital organisations. In this episode, Sarker talks about the trends in digitalisation and the implications for the individual, for the organisations and for society.

In the fifth episode of ‘In honor of, we get to know Colin Mayer, who is Peter Moores Emeritus Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. In this episode Colin Mayer discusses the fundamental objectives of why businesses exist and what as a society we need their function to be? He argues that the purpose of business is to solve problems, profitably and that intrinsically it needs to have an interest in us and the natural world to succeed and prosper.

The fourth episode focuses on Professor David Larcker, who is Professor and Director of Corporate Governance Research Institute, Stanford University. In the episode Larcker examines the choice of performance measures and compensation contracts in organisations and how to design highly effective governance. Having worked in this field for the last forty years he argues the system by which companies are directed and controlled is changing and that a once simple bonus package for executives has become overcomplicated and is now a polarising societal issue about pay compensation and wealth inequality.

In the third episode of the podcast, we get to know James Tybout, Professor in Economics at Pennsylvania State University. Tybout is one of the leading experts in how international trade and globalisation affects the well-being of workers and firms. In the episode James Tybout talks about how globalisation has impacted business and workers. He argues the price of globalisation is not something that can be collapsed to a single statistic, yet the rise of technology and automation has meant trade has created a polarisation in global job markets between the low skilled and high skilled workforce.

In the first and second episode, journalist Bente Dalsgaard interviews Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School Shoshana Zuboff. Zuboff is one of the leading social scientists in the world in her field. A renowned scholar, public intellectual and speaker. She is globally recognized for spearheading and shaping the critical debate on the consequences of digital transformations, presented in her book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. In both episodes she unfolds the many dangers and dilemmas about how digital transformations impact our democracies and institutions and connect them on the market-oriented ideology in which liberal democracies are based.

In the first and second episode, journalist Bente Dalsgaard interviews Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School Shoshana Zuboff. Zuboff is one of the leading social scientists in the world in her field. A renowned scholar, public intellectual and speaker. She is globally recognized for spearheading and shaping the critical debate on the consequences of digital transformations, presented in her book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. In both episodes she unfolds the many dangers and dilemmas about how digital transformations impact our democracies and institutions and connect them on the market-oriented ideology in which liberal democracies are based.