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Business Lab

MIT Technology Review Studios

The Business Lab is a sponsored podcast produced by Insights, the custom content division of MIT Technology Review. The Business Lab podcast features a 30-minute conversation with either an...

Episodes

20 of 61 episodes

Modernizing IT Helps Enterprises Do More with Less

The World Bank Group has a massive mission to “help developing countries escape poverty and share prosperity,” says Vijay Yellai, program ma...

25:44Dec 14, 2022

Feeding the World by AI, Machine Learning, and the Cloud

Although the world population has continued to steadily increase, farming practices have largely remained the same. Amid this growth, climat...

25:41Nov 16, 2022

AI and Data Fuel Innovation in Clinical Trials and Beyond

The last five years have seen large innovations throughout drug development and clinical trial life cycles—from finding a target and designi...

28:06Oct 6, 2022

Building a Culture of Innovation in Research and Development

Memory and storage solutions for technology are built into our everyday life, from mobile applications, cars, health-care systems, and more....

42:05Oct 5, 2022

Maximize Data Outcomes by Investing in People and Systems

In any enterprise, digital transformation is not only a technology transformation but enables business transformation itself, driving new pr...

25:07Sep 27, 2022

Building great digital customer experiences with agile infrastructure

As more business, shopping, and banking is done online and from, well, anywhere, customers increasingly expect high-quality digital-first se...

22:10Sep 7, 2022

Using Technology to Power the Future of Banking

A heritage financial services institution isn’t necessarily the first place a technologist looks to grow their career. But that hasn’t been...

31:35Aug 15, 2022

Building Tomorrow’s Telecommunications Network Today

The current 5G evolution in network connectivity is expected to drive unprecedented demands for bandwidth, reliability, and security. Howeve...

26:19Jun 15, 2022

Building the Necessary Skills for Digital Transformation

The skills and capabilities needed to undergo digital transformation are in high demand as every company jockeys to gain a competitive advan...

26:27Jun 15, 2022

Embracing Culture Change on the Path to Digital Transformation

Like many banks, National Australia Bank (NAB) decided to outsource a large part of its operations in the 1990s. “We pushed all our operatio...

22:04Apr 15, 2022

Mapping the Atmosphere on Mars Can Help Advance Science on Our Own Planet

With its Emirates Mars Mission, also known as the Hope Probe, the UAE has established itself as only the fifth country in history to reach M...

17:21Apr 13, 2022

Technology and Innovation Transform Farming

In many areas of the world, environmental conditions are not conducive to traditional farming. As a result, these countries are food depende...

26:13Apr 7, 2022

Applying Laser Technology to Humanity’s Challenges

For many people, the concept of directed energy, or lasers, conjures images of lightsabers and bank vault security systems—the stuff of Holl...

23:08Apr 5, 2022

Scientists Advance Cloud Seeding Capabilities with Nanotechnology

Since the 1940s scientists have studied ways to increase rainfall with the goal of increasing precipitation in arid and semi-arid climates....

18:35Mar 28, 2022

Make Sustainable Products, Sell, Repeat

Few today won’t agree that sustainability is important not only to the future of the planet and society but to business practices as well. A...

39:07Mar 16, 2022

Digital Inclusion and Equity Changes What’s Possible

Fueled by innovations in AI, IoT, and blockchain, digital transformation has been accelerating rapidly across industries. But as the world’s...

28:38Mar 8, 2022

Create Equitable Experiences to Empower Your Employees

Across industries and geographies, the pandemic has triggered a paradigm shift in the way companies—and their employees—conduct day-to-day b...

29:07Mar 7, 2022

Sustainability Starts in the Design Process, and AI Can Help

Artificial intelligence helps build physical infrastructure like modular housing, skyscrapers, and factory floors. “…many problems that we w...

29:00Jan 19, 2022

Building the Future with Software-Based 5G Networking

Next-generation solutions and products are hitting a wall with wi-fi: it’s not fast enough, and latency and connectivity issues mean it’s no...

40:22Dec 15, 2021

Embracing the Promise of a Compute-Everywhere Future

The internet of things and smart devices are everywhere, which means computing needs to be everywhere too. And this is where edge computing...

31:51Dec 14, 2021