Season 3 Episode 11 – Can our psychological addiction to property be cured?
Associate Professor Paul Ryan | Finance and Property
14th March 2023. Vice Principal for Teaching and Learning Paul Ryan discusses Ireland’s fatal attraction to property and his current research that psychoanalyses the country's relationship with land ownership and development.
Season 3 Episode 10 – Global food price hikes: Who’s to blame?
Professor Don Bredin | Finance and Globalisation
13th February 2023. Vice Principal for Internationalization and Global Engagement Professor Don Bredin discusses global price wars and who is stoking global food prices.
Season 3 Episode 9 – Problem Solvers: How mathematical techniques help leaders make better decisions
Assistant Professor Annunziata Esposito Amideo | Management Information Systems
1st February 2023. Dr Esposito Amideo explains how using operational research and mathematical modelling can result in better outcomes in real-world scenarios, including business decisions, global challenges and reacting to natural disasters.
Season 3 Episode 8 – Business Failure: The hospitality industry fights back
Assistant Professor Orla Byrne | Entrepreneurship and Strategy
13th January 2023. Focusing on the lived experience of entrepreneurship, Dr Orla Byrne discusses why entrepreneurship is good for society and how Ireland's hospitality sector can survive tough times. She also discusses her new initiative, AtThePass.ie, which is designed to support the current needs of hospitality, food and drink-related business owners.
Season 3 Episode 7 - Is polycrisis the word of the year? Looking back at the biggest business stories of 2022
Elaine Burke and Donal O'Donovan | Business Journalists
20th December 2022. Elaine Burke, editor of Silicon Republic, and Donal O’Donovan, Business Editor at the Irish Independent and Chairman of the Business Journalists Association of Ireland, look back over the leading business stories in 2022.
Season 3 Episode 6 - Taxing Times
Anna Scally | International Tax Partner, Head of Technology and Media, and FinTech Lead, KPMG Ireland
13th December 2022. KPMG Partner and UCD Quinn School alumna Anna Scally discusses whether Ireland can remain an FDI leader and the future of Ireland's tech cluster.
Season 3 Episode 5 - Transforming your Organisation
Harry Goddard | CEO of Deloitte Ireland
15th November 2022. Deloitte CEO Harry Goddard explains how firms, including his own, are changing to meet an anxious age and reveals how to navigate a world in a state of “permacrisis”.
Season 3 Episode 4 - Inflation: crisis or opportunity?
Julie Ennis | CEO Corporate Services UK & Ireland and Country President Ireland, Sodexo
8th November 2022. Julie Ennis discusses how her UCD Smurfit School MBA helped in her leadership leap from Bank of Ireland to Sodexo and how staying client focused amid surging prices is presenting new opportunities for cost mitigation and sustainability. She also discusses the company’s dedication to its people and diversity in leadership positions.
Season 3 Episode 3 - No silver bullet: Why government needs a fresh approach to the energy crisis
Mary Quaney | Chief Executive Officer, Mainstream Renewable Power
25th October 2022. UCD Business Alumni Award winner for 2022 Mary Quaney talks about Mainstream’s tremendous international growth in emerging markets and how enhancing grid transmission infrastructure may see Ireland become a powerhouse in wind energy.
Season 3 Episode 2 - Our energy future: Charting this winter and the winters ahead
Assistant Professor Mel Devine | Management Information Systems
With a background in mathematical and statistical modelling of energy markets, Assistant Professor Mel Devine reveals how renewables may solve this winter’s looming energy crisis and how new energy forms could hold the key to our future.
Season 3 Episode 1 - Creativity in Business
Allen Higgins | Management Information Systems
Research Associate Allen Higgins discusses the role of good design and creativity and how they can be positively applied in the world of business.
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