Rethinking Driving Productivity in Emerging Markets with Anant Nyshadham

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During this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are in conversation with Anant Nyshadham who’s work includes studying the effectiveness of firms in developing countries with the intention of accelerating economic development. Anant is an associate Professor in the Business Economics and Public Policy area of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also an affiliate of BREAD, which is a nonprofit dedicated to research and scholarship in development economics. And he is a research affiliate of the IGC, a J-PAL affiliated professor and an affiliate of the Montreal Partnership for Human Resource Management.

Anant is also co-founder and chief strategy officer of the Good Business Lab, a nonprofit seeking to promote investment in worker welfare as a business imperative. His work focuses on enterprise, firm and worker characteristics and decision-making like labour contracting and worker training and managerial quality and the resulting performance dynamics, particularly in developing countries.
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Leading In A Non-Linear World (J Gomes, 2023)
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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Check-in (00:04:07)

3. What’s your story? (00:04:53)

4. Wellbeing in the workplace. (00:10:00)

5. Creating a new value exchange. (00:19:03)

6. Are people persuaded by the statistics? (00:23:05)

7. Accepting that risk is subjective, how do you dial that out of your analysis and the solutions that you come up with? (00:27:52)

8. What has been most exciting in both your and wider research? (00:32:54)

9. How would you define the mission of Good Business Lab? (00:38:34)

10. How will AI impact those not in sophisticated jobs? (00:44:57)

11. How can people connect with you? (00:53:26)

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