Scientists have been warning us about climate change for decades—telling us that if we don’t reduce our carbon emissions soon, life on Earth will become exceedingly difficult. And for a while, it seemed like people cared: Governments passed policies, companies made net-zero pledges, people shopped with reusable bags.
But, as it stands, global emissions are at an all-time high, and our window for dodging the worst climate impacts is closing. Why haven’t we moved the needle?
Welcome to Insight Unpacked, where we delve into complex business topics and emerge with insights from Kellogg School faculty. For our third season, we look at the business of climate change, asking what happens when corporate leaders, investors, policymakers, and technologists try to make changes—and why they keep hitting a wall.
We go inside one of the world’s largest tech companies with an insurgent activist, explore the market for climate finance, and consider why environmentalists, themselves, sometimes stand in the way of meaningful progress. Perhaps most important of all, we ask whether we have the collective strength needed to turn things around.
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Healthcare: it’s a giant industry with a noble cause—supporting human health. But here in America, it’s expensive and unwieldy, and has inspired decades of (mostly) failed reform attempts. How did we get here? And can we do better?
Welcome to Insight Unpacked, where we delve into complex business topics and emerge with insights from Kellogg School faculty. For our second season, we untangle the often-competing incentives that motivate the major players in the system, from hospital networks and doctors to insurers and big pharma. We even turn the stethoscope on ourselves, the patients.
Join us as we travel back to 1800s America, head across the Atlantic to present-day Italy, and, most heroically of all, attempt to get a quote on a meniscus surgery. Throughout, we ask what it would take to get more for our healthcare dollars.
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These days, it’s easy to build a brand. So easy, in fact, that the world is full of them. So if you want your brand to stand out, you will need to build an amazing brand. And that’s a lot harder to do.
Welcome to Insight Unpacked, where we delve into a complex business topic and emerge with insights from the esteemed faculty of the Kellogg School. For our first season, we learn all about how to build a new brand (or revive an old one), from naming and logo design to brand storytelling and measuring brand health. We’ll also take you behind the scenes as we build a brand of our own.
