Episodes

  • Listen as BCG AI conversational agent GENE and editor in chief Paul Michelman highlight the opportunities and obstacles ahead for CEOs, as outlined in BCG’s most recent thought leadership. The duo share which steps to take now before an expected M&A resurgence, the lessons to be learned from fintech, and how to advance carbon dioxide reduction.

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    After you listen, dive deep into the details in these bcg.com publications:

    AI at Work 2024: Friend and Foe (https://www.bcg.com/publications/2024/ai-at-work-friend-foe)

    M&A Insights H1 2024: The Recovery Continues (https://www.bcg.com/publications/2024/m-and-a-market-insights-series-h1-2024)

    Prudence, Profits, and Growth (https://www.bcg.com/publications/2024/global-fintech-prudence-profits-and-growth)

    Boosting Demand for Carbon Dioxide Removal (https://www.bcg.com/publications/2024/boosting-demand-for-carbon-dioxide-removal)

    For more insight from BCG on the CEO Agenda, visit https://on.bcg.com/4cSLtiu.

    Hear more of GENE (and Paul) in Imagine This… at https://link.chtbl.com/imagine-this-show-link, BCG’s future-focused podcast series.

    And you'll find even more of BCG's informative insights and experts at The So What from BCG podcast at https://link.chtbl.com/the-so-what-from-bcg.

  • Listen as BCG AI conversational agent GENE identifies and interprets the latest BCG insights most relevant for CEOs. This month, GENE and editor in chief Paul Michelman spotlight how CEOs can reboot their company’s innovation system, buy into retail media to boost brand and business strategy, and make real strides in advancing employee mental health and well-being. In this episode, you'll also hear GENE take the reins–an insight into what collaborating with AI really looks (and sounds) like.

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    After you listen, dive deep into the details in these bcg.com publications:

    How Work Preferences Are Shifting in the Age of AI (https://on.bcg.com/3LfZJGe)

    Innovation Systems Need a Reboot (https://on.bcg.com/3S1PgCa)

    How Retail Media Can Top the CEO Agenda (https://on.bcg.com/3RXbDbO)

    Four Keys to Boosting Inclusion and Beating Burnout (https://on.bcg.com/3WfR2C8)

    For more insight from BCG on the CEO Agenda, visit https://on.bcg.com/4cSLtiu.

    Hear more of GENE (and Paul) in Imagine This… at https://link.chtbl.com/imagine-this-show-link, BCG’s future-focused podcast series.

    And you'll find even more of BCG's informative insights and experts at The So What from BCG podcast at https://link.chtbl.com/the-so-what-from-bcg.

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  • Which BCG insights does our AI highlight as most relevant to CEOs this month? The threads that pull sustainability and competitive advantage together, practical steps to take now to ready your company for a new economic order, how to move beyond cost-cutting to achieve real cost management.  

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    After you listen, dive deep into the details in these bcg.com publications:

    Seven Ways to Get Sustainability Right (https://on.bcg.com/3KHstHF);

    Effective Cost Management Can Fuel Growth (https://on.bcg.com/4bV6tVG);

    An Evolving BRICS and the Shifting World Order (https://on.bcg.com/3zal40T).

    For more insight from BCG on the CEO Agenda, visit https://www.bcg.com/executives/ceo-agenda.

    Hear more of GENE (and Paul) in Imagine This… at https://link.chtbl.com/imagine-this-show-link, BCG’s future-focused podcast series.

    And you'll find even more of BCG's informative insights and experts at The So What from BCG podcast at https://link.chtbl.com/the-so-what-from-bcg.

  • Join BCG AI conversational agent GENE and editor in chief Paul Michelman as they discuss the ideas that GENE has identified as the BCG insights most relevant for CEOs this month. In May, GENE wants to make sure you are up to speed on the value of transforming before performance stalls, an unexpected opportunity to realign your organization around purpose, and the critical intersection of AI and water management—and what you can do about it.

    

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    After you listen, dive deep into the details in these bcg.com publications:

    Consumers Know More About AI Than Business Leaders Think (https://on.bcg.com/3WvC6QY)
    Five Truths (and One Lie) About Corporate Transformation (https://on.bcg.com/3JOOJPx)
    The Purpose-Driven Digital Transformation (https://on.bcg.com/44NwrrH)
    How to Manage AI’s Thirst for Water (https://on.bcg.com/4bmKmrb).

    Hear more of GENE (and Paul) in Imagine This… at https://link.chtbl.com/imagine-this-show-link, BCG’s future-focused podcast series.

    And you'll find even more of BCG's informative insights and experts at The So What from BCG podcast at https://link.chtbl.com/the-so-what-from-bcg.

  • While you await the launch of CEO Digest in a few weeks, please check out BCG's conversational AI agent, GENE, in the first episode of our current podcast, Imagine This... here--and then listen to the rest of the episodes at https://link.chtbl.com/imagine-this-show-link.

    In each episode of Imagine This..., Paul Michelman and his AI co-host GENE delve into disruptive scenarios that could define the coming decades. BCG experts join the conversation, probing the possibilities and implications for leaders. Human and machine work together to explore the very real actions CEOs could take today to prepare.

    In the first episode dropped into this feed, BCG’s Mickey McManus envisions a future where top leaders share the corner office with AI—blending the logical with human intuition. Mickey, a BCG senior advisor and a pioneer in human-centered design, considers how a company like this would function. Hint: he recommends an approach much like jazz improvisation.

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