Top 7 MBA Podcasts for Business Professionals
It’s a new year and that means as a business professional and MBA candidate it’s time to step up your game by learning new strategies, setting new goals, and staying cutting edge in your industry. While reading blogs is a great start, sometimes the best way to absorb new information is through MBA podcasts.
Podcasts are fantastic because they can be listened to in the car, during work, or even while exercising. They allow you to multi-task while gaining new insight into the business-savvy world, and according to the Washington Post, they’re experiencing resurgence like never before.
If you’re looking for podcasts with great content, engaging speakers, and relevant MBA and business information, then look no further. We’ve compiled a list of our favorite business and MBA podcasts from around the web for you to enjoy.
Harvard Business Review IdeaCast
Home to one of the world’s first MBA programs, Harvard Business School has always been on the cutting edge of today’s business news, and their weekly podcast is no exception. It’s free to listen to and brings you the leading minds in management, business news, and research. With guests including Google execs, Harvard professors, authors, scientists and more, there’s always someone with a unique insight or outlook to shine a light on intriguing topics. It’s a great podcast for business professionals who are entertaining the prospect of an MBA as well as for current MBA candidates.
Stanford University’s Entrepreneurship Corner
If you’re an MBA entrepreneur, then this podcast is for you. Posting between eight to ten, hour-long podcasts a semester, The Stanford University Graduate School of Business offers an exceptional opportunity to hear from entrepreneurial thought leaders including startup experts, funders, and founders. MBA candidates can hear from leaders in innovation from a variety of industries including executives from companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Evernote, and more.
MBA candidates who want regular podcasts on anything from finance to innovation, leadership, marketing, management, public policy, social impact, and technology, should consider The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Their Knowledge @ Wharton podcast covers a variety of topics and news stories from around the world. They share interviews with industry leaders as well as Wharton faculty, and all of their podcasts can be found on iTunes for easy listening anytime.
When you only have 10 minutes and you want to listen to the best of the business world, The $100 MBA Show is your podcast. Voted by iTunes as the #1 Work Smarter Podcast 2015, it offers no-fluff, information-packed episodes with the business training you need and want. Over 40,000 daily listeners enjoy hearing from the industry’s top experts on everything from entrepreneurship to crafting an exceptional newsletter to setting SMART goals. In a recent article, Boston College’s Carroll School of Management recommended it as the #1 best podcast for MBAs.
Fast Company loves the podcast Entrepreneur on Fire for its daily episodes. Hosted by John Lee Dumas, his daily podcast covers every business topic under the sun. He interviews everyone from INC Magazine’s 30 under 30 to best-selling authors, Fortune 500 executives, and more. He covers a wide-range of topics and information that’s sure to interest any business person and MBA candidate. Even more attractive, he boldly shares the podcast’s monthly income to prove that the lessons offered in his podcasts work.
With four different podcast series, Darden offers a wealth of information that is hard to beat. Whether you’re looking for weekly news, events, research, analysis, or commentary from Darden’s exceptional faculty, they have episodes for you. There are also engaging interviews with top-level corporate, government, and industry leaders. Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management named it as one of the top five highly valuable podcasts for MBA students.
Berkeley Haas Full-Time MBA Admissions
Finally, for detailed information about the MBA admissions process, perfecting your MBA application, and financing your MBA, look no further than UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. While not a regular business podcast like many others included on this list, it offers two exceptional three-part series—one on the MBA application process and one on financing your MBA program. The episodes, hosted by the Director of Admissions and the Director of Financial Aid, offer unique insight not just into Haas, but into any MBA program. However, Haas doesn’t stop there, MBA candidates can also find webinars with faculty and students and more.
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Kelly Vo
Kelly Vo is a writer who specializes in covering MBA programs, digital marketing, and personal development.
