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How Marc Pritchard works with Google, Facebook, and Snapchat to help P&G transition to a new world order.

Meet Lori Goler, the woman who runs “People Operations” at the world’s most admired employer.

How do you get major companies like IBM, Starbucks, Nike, and GE to radically rethink their purpose? Keith Yamashita starts by asking companies to “lead into the unknown.”

He was the man who led the team to fix healthcare.gov, and during his short tenure, CMS has implemented aggressive and some might say overly ambitious change. The Affordable Care Act was already a massive shift, but earlier this year CMS implemented MACRA, a new system that pays healthcare providers for the outcomes of their patients, rather than for transactions such as tests, hospital visits, and the like. It’s a major change, one that may or may not survive the new administration.

The new mayor of Oakland on President Trump, Uber’s move, the gentrification and housing crises, and why cities are the antidote to Presidential politics.

In this episode of Shift Dialogs Podcast, Nathan Blecharczyk shares his views on Airbnb’s rise, its frequent tangles with local, state, and national governments, and its mission of helping “anyone feel like they belong anywhere.”

Right now, only 15% of the money that flows out of financial institutions is being invested in businesses. The other 85%? It stays in a closed loop that contributes to the “financialization” of our economy. That’s the argument put forth by Rana Foroohar, in her book, Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business. In this conversation, Foroohar lays out not only the core argument of her book, but also ties today’s extraordinary social shifts to a long term trend of financialization in our economy.

Technology is no longer a standalone industry: it’s the base layer for all sectors of our economy and society, driving transformational change in every aspect of our lives. That’s why Tim O’Reilly, a technology pioneer and publisher, is widening his scope to a world much larger than just technology: he’s focusing on how technology interacts with larger systems of government, policy, and the global economy.

Our education system was built for the industrial era. AltSchool’s platform rethinks learning from the classroom up. We spoke with Max Ventilla, Founder and CEO of AltSchool, on how they are examining the core operating system of education and using more than just technology to improve it.

In a conversation with Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer at Microsoft,, he discusses Microsoft’s renewed mission, the cultural shift happening across the company, and the role of the corporation in society. This conversation took place at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center on May 23rd, 2016.