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Morgan Stanley Ideas Podcast

Bringing you revealing stories about the world of business, finance, technology and beyond. Now available on iTunes.

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Season 4 - Where the Future is Now

Ideas Podcast

Fishing for Data in a Sea of Stars

Jul 12, 2019

New access to satellite data is revolutionizing our approach to myriad environmental, social and economic problems back on earth.

Ideas Podcast

The Future of Retail

Jun 26, 2019

In this episode, we head to Tokyo to visit Japan’s largest online clothing retailer and poke around a 115 year old stationery store that’s going international.

Ideas Podcast

The Co-living Future

Jun 4, 2019

In this episode we visit the world’s largest co-living facility, and some smaller ones, to understand the ways shared housing may fit into everyone’s future.

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Inventing Flavors: A Taste of the Future

May 14, 2019

In this episode, we head to upstate New York and Portland, Oregon, to sample some of the flavors competing for the future of our palettes, and our wallets.

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The Bioplastic Future

Apr 22, 2019

In this episode, we head to Southampton, England, where the future of plastics is being invented… from potatoes.

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Darting Into the Future

Apr 8, 2019

In the second episode of our new season, we head to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where the future of transportation is already in motion.

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No Cash On Hand

Mar 18, 2019

In the first episode of the new season of the Ideas Podcast, we head to Sweden to catch a glimpse of how the cashless society of the future may look.

Season 3 - Unexpected Markets

Ideas Podcast

You Can Play Videogames for a Living?

Jul 12, 2018

The rise of eSports is creating a new multibillion-dollar global industry, complete with sponsorships, merchandising—and even stadiums full of obsessive fans.

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What Does It Mean to Retire Now?

Jun 28, 2018

For a cross-generational cohort who expect to live longer, more active lives, the last thing they want is a traditional retirement—which is why they’re reinventing the whole concept.

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Can You Buy a Bagel With it?

May 30, 2018

We visit the Berkshires, in western Massachusetts, to see what a local currency, the BerkShare, can teach us about the value of alternative currencies.

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When Baseball’s Free Agents Struck Out

Jun 21, 2018

What does the collapse of a once healthy market for top sports talent say about how data analytics is transforming traditional markets everywhere?

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What Do Banks, VR & the Mars Rover Have in Common?

Jun 14, 2018

Virtual reality is popping up in almost every industry, doing the once unimaginable. How did it grow from the stuff of Sci-Fi into a real world revolution?

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Distraction, Tech’s Frankenstein Moment?

Jun 7, 2018

Tech promised us more productivity and better lives. Now, it seems impossible to stop looking at our screens. On the latest Ideas Podcast, we explore the unexpected market that’s arisen to fight distraction.

Ideas Podcast

What Is the Value of Art?

Jan 25, 2018

Special Episode: We visit The Met’s exhibition Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer and ask about the value of art, in all its aspects.

Season 2

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Will Electric Cars Take Us Back to the Future?

Nov 30, 2017

Electric vehicles are poised to dominate global markets in the next few decades. What impact will they have on how we live our lives?

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Are You Ready for Your Digital Afterlife?

Nov 12, 2017

As more and more meaningful parts of our lives move online, we need to consider the fate of our virtual legacy, whether it has real value—and to whom.

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Why Is It Difficult to Give Away $1 Million Dollars?

Oct 13, 2017

Doing the most good with our charitable contributions is something we all care about, but if you're a big dollar philanthropist it matters even more.

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Why is it Hard for a Robot to Make Sneakers?

Sep 28, 2017

Sneakerheads want more variety, more shoes, more quickly. One way they may get it is through the automation of sewing, speeding a slower supply chain.

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Can a Building Save Energy, Money and Maybe Your Job?

Sep 14, 2017

The Bullitt Center in Seattle is a sustainable building icon, but the impact of this sort of construction can ripple across the economy and into the bottom line.

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Are Two Bottom Lines Better than One?

Oct 27, 2017

For some companies, doing good is as much a part of the corporate ethos as doing well. But does prioritizing social and environmental impact along with profit actually work?

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When Software Drives the Car, Who Pays the Insurance?

Jul 5, 2017

Autonomous vehicles may radically change the way we move people and goods, but they will be no less disruptive for how the insurance industry works.

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How Can You Avoid Thinking Like the Herd?

Jul 23, 2017

The theories of behavioral economics inform how businesses, and individuals, can try to avoid the irrational responses that mislead even the best among us.

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What Do You Need for a Team to Succeed?

Aug 17, 2017

Great teams exceed the sum of their parts, but how do you assemble and support such a team for optimal productivity?

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Is Alternative Energy Really Alternative Anymore?

Mar 30, 2017

How will alternative energy, solar power investment, and utilities take what was on the fringes of science 30 years ago and turn it into the norm?

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Want Better Profits at Less Risk? Hire More Women

Feb 17, 2017

A Silicon Valley recruiter shares stories from the front lines of the ever-changing workplace, while a sustainable investing analyst takes a look at the hard data.

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