Episodes 31
Avg. Duration 38m
Activity Dormant
Since Sep 2022
Latest Episode May 2025

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Every 2 Weeks
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Episodic
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About This Podcast

Deep Purpose is a series of captivating conversations with Harvard Business School Professor Ranjay Gulati and top global CEOs about how courageous leaders unlock potential, proving that vast performance gains–and vital social benefits–are the payoffs when firms get purpose right.

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Recent Episodes

Introducing 'HBS Think Big, Buy Small' Season Two

May 09, 2025 55m Bonus

Today, we’re sharing a special episode from season 2 of Think Big, Buy Small, the podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Think Big, Buy Small explores an innovative approach to…

Introducing 'Dealcraft: Insights from Great Negotiators'

Dec 10, 2024 39m

Today, we are sharing the first episode of the new podcast Dealcraft: Insights from Great Negotiators. Recently called a “best podcast of the week” by The Guardian, Dealcraft is hosted by my HBS…

Introducing HBS Think Big, Buy Small

Aug 05, 2024 57m Bonus

This is a special episode from Think Big, Buy Small, the chart-topping entrepreneurship podcast from our friends at Harvard Business School. Think Big, Buy Small explores an innovative approach to…

Helena Foulkes: The Power of Asking “What Could Go Right?”

Mar 18, 2024 42m

Research has repeatedly shown that we are hard-wired to worry. Whether we worry about our own survival, our family and friends, or our future, it can seem like we spend much of our lives fixated on…

Behind the CEO Who Wants to “Keep Commerce Human”

Mar 04, 2024 39m

In our increasingly virtual world, it can feel like many of our lives take place remotely. When Josh Silverman took the helm at Etsy in 2017, however, he went against this technological grain,…

Global CEO of Chanel Leena Nair: Building the Courage to Lead

Feb 26, 2024 38m

Despite the decades of progress women have made in the workplace, they remainunderrepresented in leadership positions at companies across the globe. LeenaNair, CEO of Chanel, is working to change…

From the Frontlines to the C-Suite: How Penny Pennington Discovered Her Purpose at Edward Jones

Feb 12, 2024 43m

Few CEOs can claim that they started in entry-level positions at thecompanies they now lead. Penny Pennington is one of those few, rising fromfinancial advisor to CEO and Managing Partner at Edward…

What it Takes to Lead a Successful Turnaround in Health Care

Feb 05, 2024 30m

As a veteran leader in the healthcare sector, José (Joe) E. Almeida, Chairman, President & CEO of Baxter, has made a lot of tough decisions. He led the successful turnaround of the Illinois-based…

Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach on Driving the Future of the Digital Economy

Dec 18, 2023 47m

What’s really in a payment? During his career at Mastercard,Michael Miebach has strived to understand how payment solutions make adifference in people’s lives, even before his appointment as CEO. In…

How Anne Mulcahy Turned Xerox Around – and What Came After

Dec 11, 2023 44m

During the 2000s, Anne Mulcahy was faced with the seeminglyunsurmountable challenge of saving Xerox, rising to the position of CEO afterher predecessor had been unsuccessful. In this retrospective,…

Entrepreneur Harsh Shah Debates the Exit Strategy: Is it Selling Out or Building Value?

Dec 04, 2023 32m

Harsh Shah and his firm’s co-founders faced a once-in-a-lifetime quandary: should they sell the incredibly successful e-commerce venture they worked so hard to build to a big conglomerate? Reflecting…

From Rags to (Shared) Riches: How James Mwangi Democratized Financial Access Across Africa

Nov 27, 2023 38m

James Mwangi made a courageous decision to leave a comfortable, big-city banking job to rescue Equity Building Society, a local financial institution on which Kenyan farmers and villagers depended.…

Piloting Alaska Airlines with Compassion

Nov 20, 2023 40m

To pilot Alaska Airlines, CEO Ben Minicucci draws on his Italian immigrant roots and Canadian military training, which was put to the test during a tricky operation near the North Pole. Having first…

How Levi Strauss & Co.’s Harmit Singh Finds Purpose in Profit

Nov 13, 2023 23m

As the Chief Financial & Growth Officer of the Levi Strauss & Co. clothing brand, Harmit Singh makes tough decisions by sticking to a clear set of values that are well-aligned with the…

Making Global Sustainability Personal at Bühler

Nov 06, 2023 36m

The global food supply chain is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental challenges. Many companies avoid these issues or make token efforts to reduce their impact on…

How Framebridge Founder Susan Tynan Managed Risk While Making an Impact

Oct 30, 2023 35m

Great business leaders are problem solvers. That’s what sparked Susan Tynan (Harvard Business School MBA 2003) to found Framebridge, a custom framing company. When Tynan couldn’t find a reasonably…

Saving BlackBerry: CEO John Chen Explains How to Make the Hard Calls

Oct 23, 2023 31m

John Chen was hired to save an iconic smartphone company that ran out of juice. BlackBerry had gone from being a corporate world must-have to a global has-been. Chen says the key to turning…

Former Unilever CEO Paul Polman on Business as a Force for Social Change

Oct 16, 2023 40m

Paul Polman is the legendary former CEO of Unilever and a global leader in combating climate change and promoting corporate responsibility. Reflecting on his career during and after Unilever, Polman…

Deep Purpose Season 2

Oct 09, 2023 3m

Harvard Business School Professor Ranjay Gulati is back with a new season of Deep Purpose. This time he’s exploring the qualities it takes to become a courageous leader, joined by a new lineup of top…

McKinsey's Climate Consulting

May 23, 2023 37m

In this bonus Deep Purpose release, we are sharing an episode of the HBS podcast Climate Rising with host Professor Mike Toffel. In this episode, Daniel Pacthod, Senior Partner and global co-leader…

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Deep Purpose has published 31 episodes since September 2022, covering topics in Business, Entrepreneurship.

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