Ep. 867: Rebecca Henderson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Rebecca Henderson, the McArthur University Professor at Harvard University (the highest honor that can be awarded to a faculty member), where she teaches the acclaimed course on "Reimagining Capitalism." Henderson spent the first twenty-one years of her career at MIT's Sloan School where she was "teacher of the year" and where her research focused on the economics of innovation and on the question of how large organizations can reinvent themselves.
The topic is her book Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Coronavirus Pandemic
- Climate Change and Inequality
- Healthcare
- Capitalism and Politics
- Wealth and Ordinary People
- Capital and Labor Balance
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:26.6 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:28.5 | That's my passion. |
| 0:44.8 | My conversation today, something that I love, speaking with Harvard professors that I never got a chance to learn from in college because I wasn't at Harvard. |
| 0:52.5 | My guest, Rebecca Henderson, her new book, reimagining capitalism in a world on fire. |
| 0:58.9 | I joke with her, what a title. How did you pick that one right now, |
| 1:08.0 | spring 2020? Well, she did not. She picked it as she says almost a year earlier. Where does she go? |
| 1:33.5 | Where is her thinking on reimagining capitalism? Two big issues core to her thinking, inequality and climate change. Now I'm sure some of you right now hear that and instantly just got upset. And some of you heard that and instantly felt, oh yes, that's what I think too. Look, we've all got our partisan perspectives. You sure as heck know where I come from. |
| 1:40.8 | Well, maybe you don't. Maybe that's the cool thing about being a podcast host. You really don't know exactly where I come from. I don't like to think that I'm on a team really anymore. I don't want to be on a team. But given that Rebecca and I jump into some rather controversial topics, you're going to see those team biases jump out. |
| 2:04.4 | But bear with me, bear with Rebecca, because these are important topics. |
| 2:09.5 | They're damn important topics. |
| 2:11.4 | Because there is something fundamentally wrong with the current version of capitalism. |
| 2:19.9 | Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation with Rebecca Henderson. |
| 2:40.0 | You know, it's funny. I've been doing the podcast for eight years, and I've noticed in just the last, |
| 2:45.1 | it seems like the last couple months, everybody wants to go straight to FaceTime podcast. |
| 2:46.5 | This must be the new thing. |
| 2:47.5 | I'm in La La Land. |
| 2:52.4 | I think it's because we're all using the video so much for other stuff. |
| 2:54.9 | Do you want me to use a headset and mic? |
| 2:56.3 | You sound fine. |
| 2:57.4 | I don't want to jinx it. |
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