Imperial Business Podcast

#22 Professor Henning Piezunka & Dr Sarah Otner on Power, Status & Competition

Henning Piezunka is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD. He is an award-winning researcher and teacher. He obtained a Diplom Kaufmann from the University of Mannheim (Germany), a Master of Science from the London School of Economics (UK), and a PhD from Stanford University (US). Henning is an accomplished researcher in the areas of crowdsourcing and competition, and publishing his work in top academic journals (e.g., PNAS, Academy of Management Journal). 
http://henningpiezunka.com/
https://twitter.com/henningpiezunka

 

Sarah Otner is part of the Strategy & Organizational Behavior Group in the Department of Management here at Imperial College Business School. She won a prestigious grant that pauses her teaching and service for three years in order to allow her to focus on conducting world-class research. Sarah’s research focuses on social evaluations – especially status and expertise – which she studies in the context of awards and competitions. Appropriate for a researcher based in a leading STEMM university such as Imperial College London, her primary research context is the Nobel Prize in Physics. Sarah’s next research project will focus on a variety of major prizes (such as the MacArthur Genius fellowship and the Breakthrough Prize) in order to examine whether and how prestige can be shared. Sarah holds an A.B. in experimental social psychology from Harvard University; an MSc. in organizational & social psychology and a Ph.D. in management (organizational behavior) from the London School of Economics (LSE).

https://www.sarahotner.com
https://twitter.com/SarahOtner

 

Hosted at Imperial College London by Amin Siala on October 2018

 

 

#21 Matoha Recycling - James Kung & Martin Holicky

Matoha is a small and low-cost plastics identification instrument which has been developed by an extraordinary team of Imperial College scientists, Martin Holicky, Hans Chan, James Kung & David Dai.

Learn more about Matoha here https://www.matoha.com

Episode was hosted by Amin Siala & recorded on 23/07/2018 at Imperial College London.

#20 Future prosthetics - Nathan Macabuag & Ben Lakey

Mitt founders Nate and Ben are two Imperial College London mechanical engineers with a passion for radically improving prosthetic products.

Mitt aims to create an alternative for the expensive and uncomfortable prosthetic limbs available today and instead provide comfortable, flexible and customizable prosthetic arms.

https://www.wearmitt.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/mitt-wearables/

#19 Cidron Ventures Partner, Magnus Gaarder

Prior to co-founding Cidron Ventures, Magnus was an Investment Manager at the transatlantic venture fund Nauta Capital.

Magnus previously worked as an investment banker at Portico Capital’s London office, focusing on M&A and private capital raising advisory within the technology, data and business services sectors. He started his career at Leerink Swann’s investment banking practice in New York.

Magnus graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Science degree, having specialized in artificial intelligence and financial engineering. He holds a Bachelor’s equivalent in Industrial Economics and Technology Management from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

In this interesting podcast with Magnus Rinnan Gaarder we cover everything from SaaS startups, the Scandanavian startup scene and the latter half is all about success, dealing with rejection, perseverance, networking and many more exciting topics.

Cidron Ventures: http://cidronventures.com

#18 Design Thinking with Ileana Stigliani

Dr. Ileana Stigliani is Assistant Professor of Design and Innovation at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department at Imperial College Business School. She received her Ph.D. in Management from Bocconi University, Milan.

In the podcast we're also joined by Michael Healy & Katharine Pelican who are Full Time MBA students at Imperial College Business School undertaking Dr Ileana's Design Thinking class.

You can watch this episode on YouTube.

The Imperial College Business Podcast is hosted by Amin Siala and can be found on Youtube, iTunes & Soundcloud.

#17 Professor Francisco Veloso, Dean, Imperial College Business School

Professor Francisco Veloso is the Dean at Imperial College Business School.

Francisco has a PhD in Technology, Management and Policy from MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as an MSc in Technology Management and an Undergraduate Degree in Physics Engineering, both from the University of Lisbon.

Francisco´s research focuses on high tech innovation and entrepreneurship. He has several dozen publications in leading academic journals and has won several awards for his contributions. He regularly contributes as a consultant and advisor to a range of start-ups, established firms, universities and government around the world.

You can watch this podcast episode on YouTube https://youtu.be/4zYfeWkemmE

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#16 Yoyo Wallet Co-founder Michael Rolph

Yoyo is the fastest growing mobile wallet in Europe. At the time of the recording Yoyo wallet has more than 2.5 million transactions every month and is currently in 500+ educational outlets, 300+ corproate outlets and 800+ high street outlets. Yoyo was first trialled at Imperial College and Michel Rolph who is the co-founder of Yoyo talks all about the journey and more!

You can listen to this episode on SoundCloud https://bit.ly/2Hv1Zem & watch it on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/khxEoNC06TU

#15 Investor & CEO of Texuna, Patrick Lynch

Patrick Lynch is the founder & CEO of Texuna which is a Mayfair based data warehousing company that started in the year 2000. Patrick is also an investor in UK technology startup companies including Indeemo, Alison (MOOC), Edukit, Tweekaboo and many others. His speciality and experience centers around data, privacy, security, identity, education & access management.

You can hear Patrick's perspective and thoughts on data privacy with tha advent of the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook story and you might be surprised to find out that "it is only the tip of the iceberg".

Minor correction: At 58:30 Patrick meant to say "Department of Education" and not "Department of Finance".

You can listen to this episode on SoundCloud https://bit.ly/2Hv1Zem & watch it on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/ejTr9ho1Rvo 

Thanks for listening! 

#14 Voice Technology with Dr Rajesh Bhargave & Sina Kahen, MBA

Voice technology is an exciting area that will be relevant to all of us much earlier than AR or VR would. For this exciting episode we have Assistant Professor Rajesh Bhargave and MBA student & Voice Consultant Sina Kahen sharing their perspectives on the impact voice will have in the near and long term future.

Rajesh Bhargave is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Imperial College Business School, whose research is focused on the psychology of consumer behaviour. In his publications, you can read insights on how consumers use new technologies in decision-making. For instance, how shoppers behave in-store when they have access to their smartphones, or how people process information when they are online with others. He has a PhD in marketing from the Wharton School in Philadelphia.

Sina Kahen is a part-time MBA student at Imperial College, and has been working in the biotechnology industry for over 7 years. Since arriving at Imperial in September, Sina has founded VAICE, a probono consulting team of MBAs that helps brands discover the benefits of voice technology and helps them develop their voice strategy on platforms such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home. His academic background is in biomedical sciences, religion, and philosophy.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/qRXyCnfb0tA

The main website of the podcast is here at http://BusinessPodcast.co

#13 Artificial Intelligence, Automation & Education with Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez, PhD

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez is the Head of Technology at the Helix Centre where he guides the engineering roadmap, and works with designers and clinicians to bring innovations to life. Prior to Helix, he was a Product Manager at onefinestay, covering mobile, enterprise software and IoT systems, including the Sherlock smart lock product (now klevio.com). Prior to that he worked on high performance computing, and earlier was a co-founder of Ervitech, a medical technology company focused on a miniature wearable breathing monitor based on his PhD research.

Eduardo has a PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London and is an MBA candidate at Imperial College Business School.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/oJiJnfeV8s0

The main website of the podcast is here at http://BusinessPodcast.co