Leadership in the Digital Age
Welcome to Leadership in the Digital Age with Professor Vijay Gurbaxani, director of the Center for Digital Transformation at the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine. Join us for thought provoking conversations with executives on the forefront of digital transformation.
Episodes
21 episodes
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Season 3, Episode 2 - Nicole Perlroth, Cybersecurity Reporter for the New York Times and author of “This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends” joins Vijay Gurbaxani to discuss the previously untold story of the cyberweapons market—the most secret...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:00:03
The Impact of AI on Healthcare
Season 3, Episode 1 - UC Irvine Health has achieved some of the best results in the country for COVID patients. They’ve done this by consciously improving their practices over time, using technology to track outcomes, build feedback loops, and ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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40:16
Leading Responsibly with Technology
Season 2, Episode 11 - All companies must address issues of personal data and privacy, cybersecurity, responsible and ethical use of AI, and develop the appropriate governance mechanisms. In a conversation with Vijay Gurbaxani, Lisa Hammitt, no...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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19:13
Data-Driven Transformation: A Leadership Vision
Season 2, Episode 10 - Data is the lifeblood of both enterprises and business ecosystems. Leading data-driven organizations requires different capabilities than traditional organizations. In a conversation with Vijay Gurbaxani, DataStax CEO Che...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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19:21
Le Tote: When Software is Your Key Asset
Season 2, Episode 9 - Le Tote, a 7-year-old startup clothing rental company for professional women bought venerable retailer Lord & Taylor in November 2019. Then came the pandemic. By March 2020, the rug was pulled out from under Le Tote an...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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20:56
Driving into the Future
Season 2, Episode 8 - The self-driving challenges for a semi-truck are more complex than for cars, yet autonomous trucks are more likely to hit the market first. Learn from Kyle Quinn, SVP & CTO at PACCAR, and Sterling Anderson, Co-Founder ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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23:14
Digital Transformation: A Private Equity Perspective
Season 2, Episode 7 - Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), a fund managing more than $450 billion, adopts a long-term perspective in its investment strategy. CPPIB explicitly accounts for the potential of digital disruption in evalua...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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19:25
What Tech-Savvy Boards Are Talking About Now
Season 2, Episode 6 - Pandemic safety concerns, remote workforce, accelerating digital transformation, sustaining culture, and supporting innovation are now prominent issues on the board agenda. In a conversation with Martin Giles, CDT Senior I...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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20:34
T-Mobile: When Connectivity is Essential
Season 2, Episode 5 - T-Mobile had just merged with Sprint when the pandemic hit and online connectivity became more important than ever. In a conversation with Martin Giles, CDT Senior Industry Fellow, Cody Sanford, EVP and CIO, shares how the...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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17:56
How COVID-19 is Transforming Drug Development
Season 2, Episode 4 - IQVIA is the largest contract research organization in the world running hundreds of clinical trials for large pharmaceutical companies. When the pandemic hit, IQVIA was able to quickly apply its digital solution to mainta...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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19:54
The United Difference: Rethinking Travel
Season 2, Episode 3 - Hit with an unprecedented decline in demand, United is going to where the customers are. Coming up with new app offerings, pricing, and flexible tickets for the leisure traveler, United is catering to this customer segment...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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16:35
Carbon 3D: Now Printing Products for the Frontline
Season 2, Episode 2 - Carbon is the world’s leading digital manufacturing platform making custom products for companies as diverse as Adidas and Ford, at scale. In a discussion with Martin Giles, CDT Senior Industry Fellow, Joe DeSimone, Co-fou...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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19:42
Digital Transformation 2020: Accelerating Through the Turn
Season 2, Episode 1 - Since we launched the Center in 2012, we’ve tried to understand digital transformation, the business reinvention that is unleashed by the move to the digital world. This year, the global coronavirus pandemic has accelerate...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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19:49
Google: Building the Future with AI featuring Philip Nelson, Director of Engineering, Google Accelerated Science
Season 1, Episode 8 - Google is utilizing advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence to accelerate progress in everything from consumer products to healthcare and life sciences. In a conversation with Michael Chui, Partner at McKi...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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24:06
Five Ways You’ll Take Care of Your Health in the Future featuring Don Jones, CDO at Scripps Research Translational Institute
Season 1, Episode 7 - This provocative session features industry expert Don Jones who predicts novel ways in which we will manage our own health in the near future. Expect to be surprised.
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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10:53
The Board Mandate: How Digital Strategy Drives Governance with Board Directors Roxanne Austin, Mary Dillon and Greg Spierkel
Season 1, Episode 6 - As companies embrace the next phase of the digital revolution, the business risks are increasing. Digital transformation requires large capital investments, new regulatory regimes like GDPR raise the level of complexity, a...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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38:33
Hyperledger: Building the Future with Blockchain featuring Executive Director Brian Behlendorf
Season 1, Episode 5 - Blockchain technologies, such as smart contracts and distributed ledgers, are already transforming supply chain management, payment processing, and asset protection. How will you leverage these technologies to create real ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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22:35
Ulta Beauty: Loyalty is Everything featuring CEO Mary Dillon
Season 1, Episode 4 - Ulta Beauty is a best-in-class growth story in retail, offering its customers a highly personalized experience. Offering rewards for online and instore purchasing, Ulta Beauty’s loyalty program represents a staggering 95% ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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20:33
Scaling Innovation: Mighty Oaks from Little Acorns featuring Acorns CEO Noah Kerner
Season 1, Episode 3 - Can small investments add up to financial security? Technology disruptor Acorns is betting on it. In a conversation with Michael Chui, Partner at McKinsey Global Institute, CEO Noah Kerner describes how the company saw an ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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24:04
Adobe: Dreaming Bigger featuring President and CEO Shantanu Narayen
Season 1, Episode 2 - With outstanding growth and performance, Adobe has taken the market for creative content by storm. What did it entail to reinvent a traditional box product company into the world’s leading maker of marketing software and d...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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28:30
Digital Transformation 2.0: Leading Amidst the Techlash featuring Director Vijay Gurbaxani
Season 1, Episode 1 - While the digital imperative continues unabated, the context for reinvention has changed substantively. While the promise is real, the perils – dominant platforms that threaten innovation and reduce competition, privacy sc...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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38:39
