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Business Research Talk

Business Research Talk

Seyed Emadi 1 Episodes Oct 3, 2026

Business Research Talk explores how business school research is created and how it makes its way into the classroom. Each episode features a conversation with a researcher about a specific project: their goals, surprises, lessons that did not make it into the paper, and implications for teaching. Guests come from business schools and industry research teams and represent fields such as strategy, finance, accounting, marketing, operations, organizational behavior, information systems, and economics. The podcast is hosted by Seyed Emadi, Associate Professor of Operations Management at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. It is aimed at anyone interested in business research and education.

Episodes

Saravanan Kesavan on Research, AI, and Why MBA Students Must Become Builders | Ep. 1
Saravanan Kesavan on Research, AI, and Why MBA Students Must Become Builders | Ep. 1 Oct 3, 2026 01:01:10 In the first episode of Business Research Talk, I sit down with Saravanan Kesavan, Dean of BITS School of Management (BITSoM) in Mumbai and my longtime colleague at UNC Kenan-Flagler.We talk about how he convinced a national retail chain to run a randomized scheduling experiment across 28 stores, what it takes to do research inside real companies, and why he thinks AI makes it urgent for MBA stude

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